Relief Printmaking
Tools we've used
Printmaking
Printmaking
Potpourri
100
This is the what you carve out on your printing plate when you make a relief print.
What is negative space
100
The tool that rolls the ink onto the printing press.
What is a brayer?
100
What process uses silk stretched across a frame?
What is Silkscreen?
100
In this process, the ink is rubbed down into the groove or valley of the plate. The paper is then forced inot the groove with pressure.
What is Intaglio?
100
This is the type of printmaking we practiced in class.
What is relief printmaking?
200
The first print you pull off your printing plate.
What is a "proof"?
200
The tool that carves out the negative space of a printing plate.
What is gouge?
200
Which printmaking process uses acid to bite a zink plate?
What is Intaglio?
200
In this process, the ink is rolled over the surface of the printing plate.
What is Linoleum, or relief, printing.
200
A type of printmaking where you only get one print.
What is a mono-print?
300
The area that is left to print on your printing plate is referred to as __________ space.
What is positive space.
300
The material that is rolled onto the printing plate by the brayer.
What is ink?
300
What type of printmaking was developed in Germany and uses a smooth surfaced stone with greasy crayons?
What is Lithography?
300
In this type of printmaking, the artist etches his/her design into a metal plate.
What is Intaglio?
300
The tool used to push ink though a framed screen
What is a squeegee?
400
Wood, Linoleum, and Rubber.
What are different printing plates used in relief printmaking?
400
Different types of printing plates that you can use in any type of printmaking.
What is linoleum, wood, metal, or stone?
400
What type of print is incapable of producing multiple images?
What is monoprint?
400
This type of printmaking is very close to "stenciling"
What is screen printing?
400
In relief printmaking, this doesn't have any charcoal areas, dust particles, ink in the grooves, or smudges.
What is a perfect print?
500
The ratio of positive to negative space you should have in your design on your printing plate.
What is 50/50%?
500
The machine that you send a printing plate through when you are printing a lithograph or a an intaglio print.
What is a printing press?
500
What is another name for silkscreen when you print on paper?
What is Serigraphy?
500
This type of printmaking gives the artist the ability to show the most detail possible (out of all the types of printmaking).
What is Intaglio.
500
Two types of tools that could be used to apply pressure on the back of paper to transfer the relief print.
What is a brayer, a spoon, or your hand?