Arts 6-Printmaking

Printmaking is an art form and

a process by transferring
images or design from a
material to a paper but
occasionally on fabric, plastic.

Types of Printmaking

1. Relief Printing
● The printmaking technique that will be
used in printing garden leaves and
materials is called relief printing.
● Relief printing is a print using patterns cut
from a block, printing the embossed design
on any flat surface. The patterns are
usually cut from any material like wood,
linoleum, rubber, or other natural objects.
When applied to wood, this process is
called woodcut and linocut when worked on linoleum.
● Woodblock printing is used for the printing of images, texts, and patterns.
The wood block is carefully prepared as a relief pattern, which means the
areas to show "white" are cut away with a knife, chisel or sandpaper leaving
the characters or image to show in "black" at the original surface level. The
block was cut along the grain of the wood.

2. Intaglio
● An intaglio print is a type of printmaking in which
an image is printed on paper from a copper (metal
plate. An artist can incise, or cut, a design onto
the surface of the copperplate. When ink is
applied to the plate, it is held in the incisions and
then the inked image is transferred onto the paper.
3. Stencil Process
● It is done when you cut designs out of
a special paper, cardboard or metal
sheet in such a way that when ink is
rubbed over it, the design is
reproduced on the surface beneath.

4. Silk Screen
● This is fine by printing through a screen of a
very fine silk stretch tightly over a wooden
frame.

5. Lithography
● A planographic printmaking
process in which a design is
drawn onto a flat stone (or
prepared metal plate, usually
zinc or aluminum) and affixed
by means of a chemical
reaction.
Practice Test

1. A type of printmaking in which the printed area holds the ink and is raised from the
non-print area, an example of this is leafing into the paper.
2. What element applied if it is the feeling or looks as if they were touched?

3. An element that stresses the differences between other elements like colors, lines, and
shapes.

4. It is another type of printmaking where printing needs to have a metal sheet for carvings
before printing.

5. An art principle that is used to draw attention of the viewer of the particular area in the
artwork.

6. It is a principle of art that combines similar elements in order to emphasize their

similarities.

7. It is an element of art that is used to form an object.

8. A type of printmaking where ink is passed through specific areas of the screen.

9. It is an art element that is used to define and create spatial illusions.

10. A basic element in arts that has something to do about light.