Printing Process

Printing Process

Pressure + Ink: Relief Process

The method of printing consistent of cutting or etching of printing surface. The artist first, will take a wood block and coat it with water and ink it on the base. Next, the drawing can be transferred onto the paper gently with the ink. Most artist use heavier paper today, its to thick for hand to be able to apply pressure to the entire way through the sheet for an even transfer for the image. To check the impressions, ensure you got a cool even pull. The grain of the wood and wood cut it one of the reason that artists utilizes materials. The grain has a visual effect that can often be used to an artists advantage. You will then ink the wood block with Indian ink to stamp all of the paper. Once the the block has been stained and toned, the drawing can be transferred through with a carbon paper transfer. There is a special tool that can remove material, any artist may use this that marks any surface. 

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Pressure + Ink: Intaglio Process

Intaglio process are any print making process where the image area is below the flat surface of your printing matrix or plate. There are dry points in the process, dry points is a direct scratching or moving of the material on the plate. If you take a etching tool, it will scratch the surface and the scratch will raise a burr where the metal moved side to side. When your etching, there are many steps, first you have to prepare the plate, involving polishing and cleaning. The second step is applying a ground to the plate, with hard ground. Prepare the ground so its dark enough to see the copper through it. Next you have to burn the copper upside down, drawing a plate involves drawing a plate involves scratching away the grounds. The third step is etching the plate, this is a process when it eats away the copper areas showing on the plate. Finally, you have to wipe the plate down with a ink to force ink into the plate.

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Pressure + Ink: Lithography Process

Lithography is a printmaking process that revolves around grease and water resisting one another. An artist will draw with a greasy material on lithographic stone. Next you chemically treat the stone with materials, where the water goes and use rosin to help us get through an etch. We will make a first etch, with putting ink on the stone and we will be proving the stone. You want to apply the chemicals and coat the piece one at a time being gentle. You can use cheesecloths to rub in the chemicals, but very gently and evenly. Next you want to wash the drawing, to create a very grease ink for the base. This will create a ghost image on the top of the stone. Use a machine to force the ink into the stone not the ink into the paper. 

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Summary

I would like to try out the intaglio process because I think it would be cool to see how you can draw on the copper. I want to also see the process in burning the copper to see the texture and color change. I want to understand how the dry points work, I don't really understand what and how the dry points work. Another cool thing I would like to do would be the grounding step because it would show how all of the different inks work. Finally, I like this process because I think its one of the process's that involves how to draw on material after preparing it.