Question

Graphic or print making is a very popular form of art. Write the names of different techniques of print making. Most types of professional print making require tools and materials. You can also create your print in an affordable technique. Fetch a potato of reasonable size. Cut it horizontally into half. Now, take a small knife and create a design on the flat surface of the potato by eliminating those portions that are not to be printed take a piece of cotton wool, dab it in colour or ink and rub the coloured cotton wool on the flat projected surface of the potato. To make a bigger picture, you can use more than one potato and different colours on it.

Answer 1

Nine Types of Printmaking You Need To Know
ARTSY EDITORIAL
OCT 29TH, 2013 5:33 PM
Woodcut

Robert Mangold

Brown/Black Zone,&nbsp1997

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery


Howard Cook

Canyons, New York.,&nbsp1928

The Old Print Shop, Inc.


Lovis Corinth

Cain and Abel (Brudermord),&nbsp1919

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The oldest printmaking technique, woodcut involves carving an image into a wooden surface, which is then inked and printed—leaving the carved-out image in negative, as well as occasional traces of the wood’s grain.



Linocut

Sybil Andrews

Hyde Park,&nbsp1931

Osborne Samuel


Sybil Andrews

Concert Hall,&nbsp1929

Redfern Gallery Ltd.

A more modern analog to woodcut, linocuts are made using linoleum; the softness of the material allows for cleaner, freer, and more fluid lines.



Etching

Ibrahim El-Salahi

An Neel,&nbsp1975

Vigo Gallery


Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

OLD MAN WITH A DIVIDED FUR CAP,&nbsp1640

Christopher-Clark Fine Art

To create an etching, artists incise (“draw”) a composition onto a wax-coated metal plate, then soak the entire plate in acid. The acid corrodes the exposed lines and leaves the wax intact, so that when the plate is inked and pressed, the paper absorbs the image in reverse. Rembrandt is one of the original masters of this technique.



Engraving

Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin and Child on a grassy Bench (B. 34; M., Holl. 31; S.M.S. 36),&nbsp1503

Christie's Old Masters


Albrecht Dürer

Coat of Arms with a Skull (B. 101; M., Holl. 98; S.M.S. 37),&nbsp1503

Christie's Old Masters

A less forgiving version of etching (mastered by Dürer), in this process artists incise their image directly onto a metal plate, which is then inked and printed.



Monotype
Stanley Boxer

Quarried Series VI - 3,&nbsp1993

Mixografia

Sam Francis

Untitled,&nbsp1990

Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Unlike most other printmaking techniques, this process produces unique editions. Artists draw, paint, or otherwise manipulate ink or paint to create a composition on a smooth surface, which is then produced in reverse when applied to a ground support.



Lithography
Robert Motherwell

Samurai II,&nbsp1980

Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Pablo Picasso

Tete de Jeune Fille,&nbsp1945

Windsor Fine Art

Generally seen as the most difficult printmaking method, lithography involves drawing directly on flat surface (usually stone) with an oil-based implement, then coating it with a water-based liquid. When oil-based ink is applied it’s repelled by the water, inking in just the image and allowing it to be transferred onto a paper ground.



Screen Print
Keith Haring

The Blueprint Drawing #9,&nbsp1990

Taglialatella Galleries

Caitlin Yardley

A805 (Angel Wing),&nbsp2014

Peter von Kant

One of the most ubiquitous printmaking techniques today, screen printing starts with an ink-blocking stencil applied to a screen. When ink is wiped across the screen, it selectively passes through, transferring the image to the ground. Look no further than Andy Warhol for iconic examples of the medium.



Digital Print
Edson Chagas

OIKONOMOS,&nbsp2011

"Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2015)

Alex Ito

All The Rage,&nbsp2015

Johannes Vogt Gallery

Damien Hirst

Black Utopia,&nbsp2012

Paul Stolper Gallery

Digital prints are created with a computer and usually made with an ink-jet printer, whose pinpointed mists of highly saturated ink product uniformly toned images. The artist’s intent to produce a unique or limited-edition artwork is key here, as this printing process is also used to make common reproductions.



Transfer
Leonardo Drew

32P,&nbsp2014

Pace Prints

Philip Taaffe

Qairouan,&nbsp2009

Gagosian Gallery

Tue Greenfort

'Er der altid plads til én til?' (2011),&nbsp2014

KÖNIG GALERIE

Transfer is a catch-all term for processes of transmitting images from one surface to another, whether by rubbing, tracing, pressing, or any other manual technique. Outside of the “fine art” context, examples of the technique include gravestone rubbings and carbon copies.



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