Sylvie Covey

Modern Printmaking (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fully illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists.

Printmaking is flourishing in the modern era, appealing to both traditional artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital techniques. This all-in-one guide is both technical and inspirational, examining the history and contemporary processes of relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media, digital transfers, and post-digital graphics. Featuring step-by-step examples alongside representative works and profiles of top printmaking artists, this colorful resource
provides a truly fresh look at printmaking today, in all its forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781607747604
• Artikelnr.: 44695612

Autorenporträt

SYLVIE COVEY was born in France and studied graphic arts at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She has taught digital and photo techniques in printmaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York since 2001 and has been an instructor at the Art Students League of New York since 1995. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America and has been acquired by major museums and institutions. She lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ira Goldberg  vi
Acknowledgments  viii
Introduction  1
Some Basic Terms and Definitions  2
About This Book  7
Part I: Relief Printmaking
1    Relief Printmaking Background and Basics  11
A Brief History  11
Western- versus Japanese-Style
Relief Printing  18
2    Woodblock Printing  29
Equipment and Materials for
Woodcuts  29
Reduction-Method Woodblock
Printing  31
Western-Style Multiblock Woodcuts  43
Japanese-Style Multiblock Woodcuts
(Ukiyo-e)  44
3    Linoleum Block Printing  49
Equipment and Materials for Linocuts  49
Single-Color (Black and White)
Linocuts  50
Color Reduction Linocuts  53
Part II: Intaglio Printmaking
4    Intaglio Printmaking Background
and Basics  61
A Brief History  65
Equipment and Materials  72
Preparing the Plate  77
5    Non-Acid Intaglio Techniques  81
Drypoint  82
Engraving  83
Mezzotint  87
6    Acid Intaglio Techniques  97
Hard Ground Etching  97
Soft Ground Etching  103
Aquatint  109
Acid-Resist Open Bite Etching  125
Embossing  129
Sugar Lift  132
7    Collography  137
8    Photo-Etching and Photogravure  143
Polymer Photo-Etching  143
Toner Transfer Photo-Etching  151
Polymer Photogravure  155
9    Printing Intaglio  159
Printing in Monochrome  159
Printing in Multiple Colors à la Poupée  162
Printing in Multiple Colors—Color
Separation Method  163
Roll-up Viscosity Printing  163
Part III: Lithography
And Serigraphy
10    Lithography  169
A Brief History  171
Equipment and Materials  177
Stone Lithography  181
Hand-Drawn Lithography on
Aluminum  200
Photolithography  206
Pronto Polyester Lithography  214
Paper Lithography  221
11    Serigraphy  225
A Brief History  226
Equipment and Materials  228
Basic Screen Printing Techniques  230
Part IV: Chine-Collé, Mixed Media, and New Printmaking Techniques
12    Chine-Collé  239
13    Mixed Media  251
Richard Pitts  252
Jase Clark  256
Slavko Djuric  260
Shelley Thorstensen  264
Janet Millstein  268
Marcin Wlodarczyk  272
14    Digital Transfers  276
15    Post-Digital Graphics  285
Resources  296
For Further Reading  299
About the Author  301
Index  302