Print and publishing week 1

Relief Printing

                                                                Landscape  Carla Trujillo

A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process, such as woodcut, where the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show printed black (typically) are on the original surface; the parts of the matrix that are to be ink free having been cut away, or otherwise removed. Printing the image is therefore a relatively simple matter of inking the face of the matrix and bringing it in firm contact with the paper; a printing-press may not be needed as the back of the paper can be rubbed or pressed by hand with a simple tool such as a brayer or roller.

Intaglio

“Mermaid” by Stephanie Ann Johanson

intaglio printing is where the ink goes beneath the original surface of the matrix which is normally copper or zinc, the incisions are usually made by, engraving, etching mezzotint and aquatint.