Name that Process
Ink, Mirrors, Multiples
Intaglio Family
Print Shop Vocab
Art Detective
100
Carving away the negative space, inking what is left, and pressing paper to it.
Relief Printing
100
Roll ink onto a raised surface, press the paper down, peel it back: the image you get is called this.
Impression
100
The burin is pushed across the plate, cutting clean, sharp lines.
Engraving
100
The surface your print comes from (the erasers were ours)
Matrix
100
17th century Dutch master of etching whose Adam and Eve has rich dark tones.
Rembrandt van Rijn
200
A relief print carved from a solid block of wood.
Woodcut
200
Serigraphy (silkscreen) is the only printmaking method that does NOT do this.
Print in reverse (mirror image)
200
The needle is pulled, leaving a rough burr that traps ink and prints a soft, fuzzy line.
Drypoint
200
A set of identical prints in a limited run, signed and numbered.
Edition
200
The culture that produced the earliest printed artworks on paper.
Chinese
300
A relief print carved from a sheet of linoleum.
Linocut
300
The number of separate blocks you need for a woodblock print with three colors.
Three.
300
Acid does the cutting, biting lines into the plate wherever the coating was scratched away.
Etching
300
Lining each color up perfectly when a print is made from more than one block.
Registration
300
The intaglio process behind the wash-like grays in Goya's Seated Giant.
Aquatint
400
Greek for "stone writing", and the image sits completely flat the whole time.
Lithography
400
T-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards can all be printed with this versatile stencil process.
Silkscreen (serigraphy)
400
Powdered rosin melted onto the plate gives this technique its wash-like areas of tone.
Aquatint
400
It can be made with any printmaking process, but it is meant to be one of a kind.
Monoprint
400
Texas artist Kurt Dyrhaug designs prints with 3-D modeling software, so his prints could also be called these.
Sculptures
500
No carving at all- you build the matrix up by collaging materials to a board.
Collagraphy
500
You carve a star out of your block, removing the shape of the star, then ink the block and make a print. The star on the paper would be this type of space.
Negative
500
The entire plate is roughened with a spiked rocker, then smoothed where the lights go. Darkest, richest values in the family.
Mezzotint
500
Skyline Art Editions in Austin will recreate your imagery, help you pick paper, keep it archival, and make digital reproductions.
True (all of these)
500
The printmaking method Max Beckmann used for his sketchier, rougher Adam and Eve.
Drypoint