![compare and contrast relief printing and intaglio compare and contrast relief printing and intaglio](https://moreidlethoughts.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/blotter.jpg)
I recently began printmaking starting with (mostly) linocuts and drypoint. Good luck to anyone who wants to give it a go. I make allowances to fit the weather on the day (today was showery, but breezy) and go by ”feel”. Sounds easy,but, as we well know, it takes practice. Hot off the press! Lifting the print from the plateĭi, this is the basics. Add a little more pressure to the press to pick up the intaglio colours.
![compare and contrast relief printing and intaglio compare and contrast relief printing and intaglio](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/intaglio-printmaking-0.jpeg)
Rolling the top colour Roll relief colour onto the surface. Polishing the plate, keeping the hand as flat as possibleĪfter a second polishing with newsprint The plate now ready for a top roll of the final colour Inking Place colour into the incisions using a stippling brush, soft spatula, or with fingers.Īny surface colour can be blotted with newsprint Seasoning the plate “Season” the lino block by wiping over with a linseed oiled cloth. Intaglio colours need to be thinner than the relief colour. Lino cut must not be deep or you will risk “bleeding” of ink under pressure. Putting colour into a relief print in one easy technique for lino printing. (with encouragement from Tammy and Vincent) ( We have assumed some knowledge of printmaking terminology.)Ī guest post, written and demonstrated by Heather Walker. My friend, Heather, who taught me lino printing, agreed to demonstrate her method while I flashed the Fuji. It would certainly be a good test of my wonky arm! But I’d like to try this by hand, using something like rice paper. Access to a press is certainly preferable, if not essential, mainly because we use heavy paper. I had my two penn’orth, saying that colourful intaglio prints could be produced from lino blocks, a medium usually regarded as relief. Vivien and Robyn asked me to explain a method I had been shown.Īnd did being a novice stop me from wading in? No! Of course not. There has recently been some discussion on several blogs of different techniques used by printmakers.