Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.
2. PRINTMAKING
• Printmaking is the process of
creating artworks by printing, normally on paper.
Printmaking normally covers only the process of
creating prints that have an element of originality,
rather than just being a photographic reproduction
of a painting. It is an acquired skill.
8. BRAYER
• A brayer is a hand-tool used historically
in printing and printmaking to break up
and "rub out" (spread) ink before it was
"beaten" using inking
balls or composition rollers. The word
is derived from the verb to "bray",
meaning "to break, pound, or grind
small, as in a mortar"
10. RELIEF
•Where ink is applied to the original surface of
the matrix. Relief techniques
include woodcut or woodblock as the Asian
forms are usually known, wood
engraving, linocut and metalcut.
11. WOODCUT
• a type of relief print, is the earliest printmaking
technique, and the only one traditionally used in
the Far East. An image is carved into the surface
of a block of wood. Occasionally known as
xylography.
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13. WOOD ENGRAVING
•A variety of woodcut
but instead cut on
wood’s end grain
resulting in increased
durability and
hardness of the
matrix.
14. LINOCUT
• Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in
which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden
block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the
linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge,
with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror
image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked
with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or
fabric.
20. • TOMAS PINPIN- was a
printer, writer and publisher from Abucay,
a municipality in the province
of Bataan, Philippines, who was the first
Filipino printer and is sometimes referred
as the "Prince of the Filipino Printers.“
• Pinpin is remembered for being the first
native Filipino to publish and print a
book, "Librong Pagaaralan nang mga
Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla" in 1610,
entirely written by himself in the
old Tagalog orthography.[
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22. • NICOLAS DE LA CRUZ
BAGAY
• woodblock artist, was born in Tambobong, now the
city of Malabon, in 1701. Trained and educated by
the Spaniards, Bagay was a renowned Filipino expert
in engraving and printing during the Spanish times.
• Bagay first drew attention in 1734 when he engraved
Pedro Murillo Velarde’s Mapa de Filipinas, the
first detailed map of the Philippines. His name
appeared in 1744 in a reduced size of the same map
in an engraved copper.
23. • Laureano Atlas
• Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay
• Phelipe Sevilla
• Francisco Suarez
- They were among the talented Filipino s who
engraved religious and secular themes on their
copperplate, books and posters.
While others used loose leaf editions called
estampas or estampitas.
24. MANUEL RODRIGUEZ SR.
• He was known as the “ Father of
Contemporary Printmaking”.
• He inspired and encouraged his
students and fellow artists to pursue
printmaking.