PRINT PROCESSES: TECHNIQUES www.printshop.org The listings below describe the principal techniques in traditional and contemporary printmaking. Each of the various methods of printmaking yields a distinctive appearance, and an artist will choose a technique in order to achieve a specific, desired effect. Artists may, and do, combine different techniques. Since some modern techniques are quite complicated, some artists collaborate with a master printer to help create the final work. There are…

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Printmaking art lessons are both engaging for students and a great way to teach a variety of art techniques. Elementary printmaking may look completely different than high school printmaking, but I believe it should be introduced as early as kindergarten and experimented with throughout a child’s education. Here’s a variety of printmaking techniques you can teach your students, beginning with the most basic and increasing in difficulty.

This sampler was focusing on different types of string, fabric, card and hard and soft substances. All the sticking and sealing was done with pva, which wasn’t quite up to the job, and the ba…

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Digication ePortfolio :: Fairfield Art by Tricia Thatcher,mindy montgomery,colleen larbes,julie staudt,kathrine clark,matt klaber,Harmon Lauren at FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL. Intro to Art Assignment due March 11th We will be starting a project using the block printing method. You will need two images of animals for this assignment. Search for images on a computer. Keep in mind that we will be working with a 6X6 inch square. Think about

Monoprinting is a lovely technique that allows printmakers to be spontaneous, painterly and experimental. This simple monoprint project produces beautiful delicate prints using a piece of scrim and an etching press. Begin with a piece of perpex, a plastic inking plate or a sheet of drypoint plastic. use masking tape to tape off a rectangle on your perspex. … Continue reading "Monoprinting with Scrim"

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Making a few test prints on the plate-made-from-sensible-materials was quite successful, in that it turned out pretty much as I’d expected it to. The branches coming out of the top of the wal…