This is a lino cut that I made of a view of Nottingham Castle where the trees overhang the gift shop. I feel that lino printing is an excellent medium for my current work that looks at the negative spaces of trees, because I can really focus on those spaces as I physically cut them…
Category: AEB Printmaking
Printmaking Techniques – Drypoint
Drypoint, is the technique of making scratches onto a surface that will hold ink, in order to be printed. It can create prints with fine, delicate lines. The design is scratched onto a plate by hand or etched using acid, and then printing ink is applied to the surface and pushed into the cracks. The…
Printmaking Techniques – Monoprinting
Monoprinting is a technique that creates single, one-off images. Ink is applied to a plate and then an image is transferred to the paper using a variety of methods such as drawing, stenciling and applying objects and a wide variety of effects can be achieved. I created the below monoprints using some foliage. Ink or…