Printmaking

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Printmaking

• Repeated Art

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Vocabulary

• Printmaking when an image is repeatedly
  transferred using the same setup
• Plate the surface on which an image is made.
  Wood, stone, linoleum, foam, etc.

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• Brayer a rolling tool used to spread ink
• Baren a round tool used to press the ink onto
  paper.
• Ink the liquid that takes on the shape of
  your image.

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• Gouge the tool used to carve away your design.
• Printing Press a machine used to make many
  prints, quickly.
• Register to line everything up so its
  straight.

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• Edition The total number of identical prints
  (copies) made of one image.
• 45/150
• Print 45 out of an edition of 150.

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Uses for Printmaking!

• Newspapers
• Posters
• Cards
• T-shirts
• Fine art

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Most famous printmakers

• Andy Warhol
• American printmaker.
• Worked in The Factory
• Wore a white wig

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Katsushika Hokusai

• 1760-1849
• Edo (now Tokyo),
• Japan
• Printed using plates made of wood.
• Known by at least 30 different names as an
  artist. ( a common practice of the time)

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Jay Ryan

• Born 1972 (age 44)
• St. Louis, MO
• Currently lives in Evanston, IL
• Creates Posters for art purposes as well as band
  advertisements, and special events
• Bassist in the band Dianogah.

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Process

• 1. find or make an image.
• 2. draw it onto a sheet of paper the same size as
  your plate.
• 3. transfer image to plate.

• 4. make test print to check for flaws in plate.
• 5. fix plate and test again.
• 6. make addition of 4, each on a different
  paper.