Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes - Softcover

Beth Grabowski; Bill Fick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856696006 ISBN 13: 9781856696005

Publisher: Laurence King, 2009

Printmaking is a comprehensive and up to date introduction to fundamental printmaking techniques including relief, intaglio, collagraph, lithography, screen print and monoprint. It shows how some of the latest and most experimental prints have been made using these techniques. It also shows how to use the computer as an image-making tool and how to translate digital images into tangible works of art. Each chapter has clear, step-by-step illustrations with extensive case studies, which help the student understand the technical aspects of each printmaking technique. Each chapter profiles a leading contemporary printmaker, with an interview and examples of their work. The appendices include many useful troubleshooting charts, indicating the problems that are likely to arise with different techniques, and what can be done to solve them. There is also a useful glossary of technical terms.

About the Author:

Bill Fick is a printmaker and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Duke University who has exhibited his work internationally. He is also the director of Cockeyed Press, which specializes in the production of satirical linocut prints.

Beth Grabowski is a printmaker and a Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Most recently her work was exhibited in Berlin at an exhibition honouring Käthe Kollowitz. She is the author of A Printshop Handbook (1991).

• Publisher: Laurence King
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1856696006
• ISBN 13: 9781856696005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240