Carl Eugene Keel’s ‘ Bar‘ shows the effects of a woodcut printed in black ink. The bottom of your sneaker makes a relief print on the floor after you walk through mud. The nature of the relief process doesn’t allow for lots of detail, but does result in graphic images with strong contrasts. Paper is laid over the matrix, and both are run through a press, transferring the ink from the surface of the matrix to the paper. Once the area around the image is cut away, the surface of the plate is rolled up with ink. The printed surface is in relief from the cut away sections of the plate. Relief PaintingĪ relief print, such as a woodcut or linoleum cut, is created when the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show the printed image are on the original surface the parts of the matrix that are to be ink free having been cut away, or otherwise removed. Other printmaking processes are silkscreen printing and digital ink jet printing. The black areas indicate the inked surface An illustration of the basic techniques used in printmaking. You can get an idea of how they differ from the cross-section images below, and view how each technique works from this site – – at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There are three basic techniques of printmaking: Relief, Intaglio, and Planar (Lithography). Print results depend on how the template (or matrix) is prepared. All printmaking mediums result in images reversed from the original. Each image, or individual print, is called an impression, and multiple impressions are printed in an edition, with each print signed and numbered by the artist. It uses a transfer process to make multiples from an original image or template.
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