Tools
Vocabulary
Types of printmaking
Printing Process
Wildcard
100
A tool used to apply ink to a printing block or to aid with pressing the ink onto the paper during the inking process.
What is brayer
100
The order and amount of prints the artist made.
What is Edition
100
the printed image is made by the area that remains after being carved out.
What is Relief Print
100
the first step in developing a subject or layout of the design for you print block.
What is sketch/design
100
How many series of prints we made in class.
What is 5
200
A versatile tool that is used during the carving process as well as during the inking process in which it is called an inking plate.
What is bench hook
200
the flat surface you spread the printing ink on before you put it onto your printing plate.
What is Inking Plate
200
The image printed is drawn on limestone with a special greasy crayon
What is Lithography
200
during the reduction printing process this allows you to line up your prints so that colors overlap.
What is registration
200
the name of the design we created for our image.
What is Mandala
300
The substance that creates the image once pressed onto the paper during the printing process.
What is ink
300
What your image is made on in order to print.
What is printing plate
300
method in which the image to be printed is cut or scratched into a surface, usually made on a metal plate.
What is Intaligo
300
What you name your print.
What is Title
300
This area should be the main focus of the Mandala.
What is center
400
The shape of the tool that helps to create fine/small details during the carving process?
What is V
400
the serigraphy print is made by pressing ink through this.
What is silk screen
400
the image is pressed through a silk screen, this method is used for making t-shirt designs.
What is Serigraph
400
this number in your edition represents the order you printed your image in.
What is top number
400
The Religion that Mandalas are often represent other than Hinduism.
What is Buddhist/Buddhism
500
this helps to align your prints when using more than one color on the same print.
What is registration
500
location of the image/impression on the paper.
What is placement
500
the image is printed in multiple colors over the same image, after each color you carve out more of your print block and repeat these steps until your image shows multiple colors.
What is Reduction Print
500
how the image on a lino cut relief print is made.
What is carving
500
The order of the value your ink should be printed in during the reduction process.
What is lightest to darkest