It was a tutor recommendation to look up etchings by Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn to study his hatching and crosshatching technique. The suggestion was related to the somewhat underdeveloped hatching techniques I employed in my sketchbook work. During Part 2 of the course I hardly drew at all, but I think I […]
As a response to the leaf prints from Part 1, my tutor suggested I’d have a look at Rayograms by Man Ray. That was quite interesting. I first looked up ‘Rayograms’ to discover that the principle of placing objects on photographic paper, exposing the setting to light, then using a chemical to develop the photo […]
Find a couple of contemporary printmakers whose work you like, and reflect on their techniques. How do they use lino? What sort of marks do they make? What could you learn from them? Atta Kwami, Ghana (born 1956) I found this artist when searching for linocuts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. They struck […]
Just discovered this technique and got curious. I know not much about lithography, only that it’s based on water-friendly vs water-repellent materials. I recently saw some Lithographs in the Toulouse-Lautrec exposition. Paper lithography seems to use the same principle, but with paper as the medium. Photocopies can be transferred and gum arabic plays a role. […]