Category Printmaking 1 Part One
Printmaking 1 Part 1 Research Point Contemporary Printmakers who rely heavily on texture in the prints
We were asked to find some contemporary printmakers who rely heavily on texture in their prints. I really enjoyed research a variety of printmakers and it was interesting to read through their artists’ statements and descriptions of their techniques and process. Here are a selection of printmakers I looked at with links to their websites: […]
Printmaking 1 Part1 Research Point – Backdrawing
We were asked to find some printmaking artists who use back drawing. I was already aware that Degas had used trace monotype in the 1890’s transferring his drawings by tracing them onto thin transparent paper but initially I found it hard to find other artists using this technique. I googled the term ‘back drawing’ but […]
Printmaking 1 Part 1 Project 3 Backdrawing
Back-drawing is where a design is impressed on the back of the paper, after it has been laid over an inked printing plate. Here is a back-drawing of the washing line in my garden. And here […]
Printmaking 1 part 1 Project 3 – Variations using masks and multi-colours
This section was all about experimenting with masks, layers of colours, painted printing plates etc. To start off I experimented with layering colours using the same mask. First of all I overprinted a positive mask in a different colour and then overprinted with the negative mask in a third colour. […]
Printmaking 1 Part 1 Project 3 Two Coloured Masked Monoprints
In this project, we were asked to continue to use the masks from the previous section to make a two-coloured print. Eager to move on to the two-coloured masked monoprints, I soon realised that I should have taken more notice of the printing set-up requirements as I did not have two printing plates of the […]
Printmaking 1 Part 1 Project 2 Positive and Negative Masked Monoprints – Taking the print to paper
I decided to start out with black acrylic paint, with the addition of some medium. I had cut the templates to fit an A5 piece of paper. The printing plate was a little longer but I thought I could mask off the bit I wasn’t using. […]