Supplies
The "Rolly Thingy" that is used to apply paint to a plate.
Brayer
The actual picture an artist makes from printmaking.
A print made from collaged objects (like found objects or trash) glued to a plate
Collagraph
This type of plate looks like a wiggly dessert food-but don't eat it. Use it for monoprinting!
Gelli
The subject of our latest printmaking project?
Snowmen (snowpeople)
It isn't paint that used in printmaking, it's....
Ink
A second print made using the ink that is left on the plate after the first printing.
Ghost print
Ink is applied to a fish or marine animal and rice paper is placed on top to make a print.
Gyotaku
This term is used for a type printing that makes only one unique print at a time before having to reink
Mono or monoprint
You were asked to make this many prints.
Four
Plate or Block
The process of designing and making artwork using an image on a printmaking "Plate" and reproducing it again and again.
Printmaking
A stencil process where ink is pushed through a fine mesh fabric screen.
Screen printing
The most simple form of printmaking where you press on object into ink and then onto a surface to make a mark or design.
Stamping
When your prints are dry, you still need to do this to them to get them ready for matting.
Crop and sign
The tool used to carve material away from a plate.
Gouge
This involves washing the brayers, throwing away trash, putting the caps on the ink and neatening up the workspace.
Clean-up
When a plate is printed and then carved away and printed again and gets smaller ever time.
Reduction Printmaking
A piece of paper or cardboard that has a design cut into it. Ink is then forced through the open areas of this design and the ink is blocked out on the parts that aren't cut away.
Stencil
Matting
A special machine used by artists to create prints.
Printmaking press
Cutting the excess paper off of a piece of artwork so that it is neat and even.
Cropping
You may know it as hydrodipping, but this printmaking technique has been around for hundreds of years
Suminagashi
A means of making prints where the plate is either built up or carved away and ink is applied to raised areas.
Relief printmaking
The number you write at the bottom of finished prints.
Impression number