Printmaking! Have You Tried It?

Six top Printmaking lessons you can learn Printmaking basics - starting with mono-printing, painting is simply on a smooth surface and press on paper, what you paint. It is a good way to learn how reversed in printing. They collect materials, the texture and a collagraph (= print graphics /Collage Colla =) and a pressure plate bonded with these materials is for textures. If the color collagraph plate wet paper, and press the first glance, the textures are on paper. Learn mono print and multi-print basic techniques is a powerful tool to develop skills Printmaking.

As a complement to the top six Printmaking lessons have you learned the difference between mono-printing and multi-print, you will know what to expect in a reverse image and the translation from print to print the plate itself. They have learned how to use textures and configuration with a variety of collage /textured materials to create a printing plate. Accompanying the lessons are free prints informative, step by step videos show Printmaking basic skills and techniques. At the end of those hours, you will be well with the pressure, if you choose, you can conveniently and safely continue with linoleum blocks, wood block, etching, engraving and lithography.

What is so much fun? Printmaking teaches you how to see, on the contrary. If the pressure plate, it is inked and paper is pressed. The picture that is transmitted is the opposite of what is shown on the plate. It is quite different from what you thought it would be if the plate. Often the image result is a happy surprise, even better than what you thought would benefit from the record. On the negative, the picture may have unfavorable or unbalanced, as most of us tend to read and see from left to right. The "left" of the image is the "right". Adjustments are applied to the plate, if possible, to the imbalance and awkwardness. If not, a new record to make.

surprise factor Unlike directly onto paper or canvas, printing has always been a certain mystery, embedded in the process. You can never really know with the first printing of what the printed image will look like. The tension and excitement of pulling that sheet of paper printed from the plate is a part of the beauty of the prints. Ironically, in multi-pressure, if the image is first printed with the permission of its creator, the process is open to print many, many pictures and yes, the surprise is the wealth of experience to be able to produce an image over and over again and make these images available to many viewers, and sources. What happens with a mono-print? As the name describes, this is a unique printing process and only one pressure is the pressure from the source - a smooth surface like a plate of glass on which a picture with water colors, such as acrylic or tempera paints. If the image on the smooth surface is completed, paper is coated on the surface and pulled away. Again, the same surprise is there, and the transmitted image can be either cumbersome and unbalanced or a happy outcome. Mono-print is a fast, powerful, interesting activity, particularly for children. There is no carving in materials, as with woodcut or linoleum block, so that the process is much easier for a child. Everyone can appreciate, but the immediate results gathered from mono-printing.

Beauty The beauty of the reproduction of the pressure is that once a record is created and printed, can be printed over and over again and the living quality will be closely duplicated by the image after image. And as the printed word, the image can be broadcast (released) and for many people for the education and enjoyment. The powerful mechanism of reproduction, so obviously with the press, even artists to reproduce and distribute their images, numbering and signing each print personally and limiting the number of prints to a certain image. An artist will only reproduce hundred and sixty print a picture, so that the pressure would be less than the twentieth printing of an edition of hundred and sixty. This and the signature of the artist will be on every print.

Multi-printing can be done by the children, by providing a textured collage (collagraph) by sandpaper after gluing, fabric and other textures, then painting the entire surface with shellac. When dry, this plate can be painted with many colors and paper is pressed on its surface. It should be checked with the paper in the textures, so that a detailed imprint can be produced. Wetting of the paper, which should provide a good quality, will help this process. Children will be able to print again and again!

Here is a lesson from the beginning of Printmaking. They not only want to do it?

Lesson One: Insert the following materials on a table of newspapers. Your pressure plate (glass, Plexiglas or sheet of rigid plastic. On paper palette, the little dabs of each of the six acrylic paints in your set. Set the water container in the vicinity and have a few sheets of paper towel ready. By brush, some paints and paint on the smooth surface. Use a little or any color, mix some colors together. See a picture of something? If you do, try it with the emphasis on a darker color. add detail too - if you have a face, eyes or add a mouth, what you think is necessary to make it complete. colors blend easily on the smooth surface, so be careful to not mix them so much that they are all muddy.

Do not be, with much detail and do not try removing paint, in the hope of erasing. Remember that the pictures look different than what you use now anyway. It takes only a few minutes for your painting. If you think it is finished, take a sheet of paper and sketch book click on your image. Smooth the paper over all, for the painting. Now lift the paper off the painted surface and place it flat on the table. Wow! How about that! Do you expect that this is so? Is it still look like the image you work with? Do you like it? Let's try another ( we are just warming up!) Take a little water in the brush and put them on the surface. Then wipe the surface with a clean paper towel. Now you are ready for your next mono-printing. color on the surface. Look for an image to develop, but if you do not see, do not worry, your printing is awesome, anyway! This time, use bright colors and mix them not so much. Keep the yellow, blue and red separately and add just a little white. Now take a pencil and scratches in the paint in places. This is your work texture. Do a drawing or a squiggle, or a series of lines or whatever. Now press the paper down on the surface and take it off. Magic! Awesome, yes? printing is fun!

 

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