Practical assignment (observation and analysis)
- Define, in your own words, the printmaking terms
- Find examples on the Internet to represent each of those terms
Printmaking is using one of many techniques to engrave a pattern, and where you may choose to print the same pattern again and again.
There is a wide choice of printmaking techniques available:
Engraving. A line is cut into the metal plate, inked up, and printed off. (Bank notes are produced in this way).
Lithography. Wax is applied onto stone tablets. The tablets are inked up (the ink will not stay on the wax, so it creates a “negative drawing”), and a drum is rolled across the tablet before transferring the ink (and therefore the image) to paper.
Screen-printing. Masks are made up (these masks prevent the ink from reaching certain areas of the paper) before coloured inks are pushed through a fine silk screen using a rubber squeegee, past the masks, and onto the paper.
Monoprinting. Ink is drawn on to a plate of glass and printed off without need for a press.
Digital printing. Digital printing technology is used in innovative ways to produce limited edition, digital fine-art prints.
- Use your graphite, eraser, eraser putty and blending stub to sketch spheres using the following techniques: hatching and cross hatching, blending, rendering, squiggly lines and cross contour lines (please scan your sketches and upload them to your blog).
- Watch the prescribed Adobe Illustrator video on LinkedIn and complete the exercise files.
- Find a poem that inspires you. Follow the exercise in the lesson above and illustrate your poem.
Resources:
https://www.ipcny.org/glossary
https://www.boktips.no/dikt/ord-over-grind-halldis-moren-vesaas/
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