What Is Printmaking? A Look at the History of Creating Art in Multiples
Printmaking changed viewers access to visual art; replicating images multiple time allows the work to be exposed to a larger audience.
Printmaking is the artistic practice of transferring ink from a matrix onto material—typically paper—making multiple impressions of the same image. While there are different printmaking techniques (each having its own distinct characteristics), the end result is the ability to make several impressions of a single image.
Local Printmaking Artist:
Printmaking changed viewers access to visual art; replicating images multiple time allows the work to be exposed to a larger audience.
Printmaking is the artistic practice of transferring ink from a matrix onto material—typically paper—making multiple impressions of the same image. While there are different printmaking techniques (each having its own distinct characteristics), the end result is the ability to make several impressions of a single image.
Local Printmaking Artist:
Tanja Softić
https://tanjasoftic.com/
http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/migrant-universe/
https://youtu.be/asX6ZlTkVVg
https://youtu.be/_09UdscPJiY
https://tanjasoftic.com/
http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/migrant-universe/
https://youtu.be/asX6ZlTkVVg
https://youtu.be/_09UdscPJiY
Ryan McGinness
https://www.ryanmcginness.com/
https://www.vmfa.museum/learn/resources/ryan-mcginness-vmfa/
https://www.ryanmcginness.com/
https://www.vmfa.museum/learn/resources/ryan-mcginness-vmfa/
Brooke Ann Inman
Studio two three
https://studiotwothree.org/
https://studiotwothree.org/
How can you make prints (or a series of linked works) without the traditional printmaking tools (brayer, inks, printing press)?
Adaptation #1: Collagraph
Collagraphy is a printmaking process introduced in 1955 by Glen Alps in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate. The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing
Adaptation #1: Collagraph
Collagraphy is a printmaking process introduced in 1955 by Glen Alps in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate. The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing
How to make a collagraph print:
https://www.annacurtius.com/blog/how-to-make-a-collagraph-print-in-four-steps
Anna Curtius Process Video
A collagraph print is made by gluing different materials to cardboard and creating a kind of collage. During the inking process the ink will rub off surfaces that are smooth or higher and stay on surfaces that hold more ink, at edges and at lower points thus creating the image. (Anna Curtius)
https://www.annacurtius.com/blog/how-to-make-a-collagraph-print-in-four-steps
Anna Curtius Process Video
A collagraph print is made by gluing different materials to cardboard and creating a kind of collage. During the inking process the ink will rub off surfaces that are smooth or higher and stay on surfaces that hold more ink, at edges and at lower points thus creating the image. (Anna Curtius)
Adaptation #2: Frottage
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/frottage
Frottage is a surrealist and ‘automatic’ method of creative production that involves creating a rubbing of a textured surface using a pencil or other drawing material
Frottage Technique Video
Extended Version: Max Ernst Texture Tile
How to Frottage
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/frottage
Frottage is a surrealist and ‘automatic’ method of creative production that involves creating a rubbing of a textured surface using a pencil or other drawing material
Frottage Technique Video
Extended Version: Max Ernst Texture Tile
How to Frottage
Adaptation #3: Monoprinting
The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/monoprint
Low Budget Monoprinting
Paul Klee Technique
The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/monoprint
Low Budget Monoprinting
Paul Klee Technique
Finding a subject?
Jim Dine: making small common place objects MONUMENTAL (transcending)
Jim Dine: material exploration through repetition
Initial Experiments
Exploration of Subject