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Art I Printmaking
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Printmaking
the activity or occupation of making pictures or designs by printing them from specially prepared plates or blocks.
Printmaking
Relief Printing
a printing process that uses raised surfaces to apply ink to the paper, e.g. woodcut, linocut
This is a SUBTRACTIVE process, meaning you TAKE AWAY sections to create an image.
Why use Printmaking?
- Printmaking can be used to distribute image and text based information to a large audience
- Printmaking can be used to make artwork that can be produced many times and be distributed to a large audience
- Printmakers will often make “limited editions” which are numbered. The lower the edition number, the more the print is worth.
Origin Story
The Earliest known examples of printmaking date from Sumeria 4000 BC.
Sumerians used cynlinder with raised text tthat they rolled onto wet clay..
Woodblock Printmaking
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
Ukiyo-e
- A unique form of Japanese art developed in the 1800’s,
- Developed by the Japanese so that art would be available to a larger number of people. the first
Subjects Include:
- Famous Kabuki actors
- Famous courtesans
- Mythology and folk tales
- Landscapes of famous views
- Nature scenes of flowers, fish, and animals
- Scenes of everyday life
- It is literally translated as, “Pictures of the floating (or fleeting) world.” The images were meant to represent the temporary pleasures of life.
Ukiyo-e
Style
- Ukiyo-e Images feature the following stylistic elements:
- Bold, flat colors
- Thin outlines
- Flat shapes
- Zoomed out perspective (in landscapes)
- Flat space
- Stereotyped portraits
Japanese Woodblock Print Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uF3PZ3KGQ
Print Designers
- We are going to looks at three famous print designers from the ukiyo-e genre.
- In their time, these artists had a semi-celebrity status and were celebrated for their work.
Katsushika Hokusai
(1760—1849
Most well known for his 36 Views if Mt. Fuji, a series of landscapes depicting the famous mountain Mount Fuji in the background of various scenes.
The Great Wave off the Kanagawa
Mt. Fuji, 1900
Kitagawa Utamaro
- 1753-1806
- He is best known for his portraits of beautiful women, or bijin okubi-e
Kitagawa Utamaro
Edo Period Woman
Utagawa Kunisada
- 1786-1865
- Kunisada was one of the most famous and successful designers of his day.
- He often depicted Kabuki actors
Utagawa Kunisada
Kabuki
Project
- Create a design that shows stylistic elements of ukiyo-e such as flat space, variety of lines, unified composition that takes up entire space,
- Carve your design onto a linoleum block and create a series of 10 good prints that are registered and signed correctly.
- One print must be done in color, one must be done with gradient, and one must be decorated with colored pencil. The other 7 will be black.
Objectives
Outcomes
- Design is visually interesting, bold, and shows a balance of black and white and flattened space.
- Linoleum block is carved with adequate pressure
- Prints have adequate ink coverage, clean and centerd boarders, and are signed correctly.
Examples
Steps
Design
Design
Create a simplified design using the style of Ukiyo-e. Remember to balance out your use of black and white.
Trace your design in black sharpie
Transfer
Transfer
Trace design in pen or sharpie
Use an ebony pencil to shade all over your design
Flip the paper and tape it to a piece of linoleum ebony side down.
Trace all out lines so that you press the lines onto your linoleum
Remove paper and go over lines on linoleum with black sharpie
Carve
Carve
Using a gauging tool, carve away all the areas of your design that will be WHITE.
On printing paper, create a one inch boarder
Roll ink onto your plate
Roll ink onto your linoluem
Set inked plate face down on paper within the boarder
Flip and rub paper with wooden spoon and hand.
Sign
Sign
Sign your prints with edition number, title, and signature.
Rubric
100-Picture is creative and balanced, prints are transferred with excellent and complete coverage. Overall series is excellent in quality and signed correctly
90 Picture is creative and mostly balanced, prints are transferred with almost complete coverage with one or two errors.. Overall series is good in quality and signed correctly
80 Picture is somewhat creative but lacks balance.. Two or more prints are transferred with incomplete coverage. Overall series has prints that could be redone.
70- Picture lacks creativity and balance. Many prints are transferred with incomplete coverage. Overall series quality is not up to standards and needs to be redone.
65- Picture has no creativity and balance, looks rushed and unthought out. Prints are not transferred, centered, or signed.