Printmaking
Types
Types
In this printing method, ink is pushed through a mesh fabric onto paper or fabric.
What is screen printing?
Nashville’s nickname is “Music City” because it is famous for this type of music.
What is country music?
What material did artists in Europe first use for prints before paper was introduced?
What is cloth or fabric?
Hatch Show Print is a famous print shop located in this U.S. city known for country music.
What is Nashville?
This is the process of making more than one copy of the same artwork.
What is printmaking?
This type of printmaking makes only one unique print.
What is monoprinting?
This famous Nashville street is known for its live music shows, neon lights, and busy nightlife.
What is Broadway?
This country is where the earliest known printing began, using carved wooden blocks.
What is China?
Hatch Show Print is best known for making this type of bold, colorful printed artwork.
What are posters?
You press this onto the inked plate to make your print.
Paper
This type of print is made by drawing or carving into a surface like foam or linoleum.
What is relief print?
This historic Nashville building is the former home of the Grand Ole Opry and is known for its perfect acoustics.
What is the Ryman Auditorium?
Around the 1400s, this invention helped spread printed images and text across Europe.
What is the printing press?
How long has Hatch Show Prints been in business?
What is 150 years?
This soft material is often used by beginners to carve simple designs for relief prints.
What is Styrofoam
This type of print uses a flat stone or plate and works because oil and water don’t mix.
What is lithography?
This is the tallest building in Nashville, nicknamed for its two tall spires that look like a superhero’s mask.
What is the Batman Building?
The oldest type of printmaking, in which parts of a block are carved away, leaving the image in relief.
What is woodcut?
Hatch Show Print became famous for making posters for these kinds of performers, including Johnny Cash and Elvis.
Who are musicians?
This is the tool you use to roll ink.
What is a brayer?
This method uses a smooth plate, and the artist scratches lines into it.
What is intaglio?
Nashville has a full-size replica of this famous ancient building from Greece.
What is the Parthenon?
This German artist is often called the “father of printmaking” for his detailed woodcuts and engravings during the Renaissance.
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
Hatch Show Print is known for arranging wood type by hand. This careful layout process, where printers organize letters and images before inking, is called what?
What is typesetting?
This step comes at the very end—when you lift the paper to see your artwork.
What is pulling the print?