Linoleum Carving
Notice: Where is the artist located? How does the artist prepare the surface before carving? What does the artist use as a barren?
In your sketchbook, make a page for "Printmaking Tools and Vocabulary" and add any new tools or vocabulary that you learned about in this video. It is okay if this page had doodles or questions as well as notes.
Linoleum Carving
How does the artist transfer the image?
Notice the reversal during the transfer and during the printing process?
How does the artist solve the problem of background chatter?
Notice the artist intentionally chooses the carving direction within shapes.
The earliest block printing is going to be woodblock printing. Woodblock and Linocut are both relief printing processes. Woodblock precedes linoleum.
What tools is she using for registration?
What is "padding your edition"?
Describe the reductive process in your own words.
Monoprinting
Notice: Where is the artist located? What printmaking specific vocabulary to hear the artist use?
How is this process different from Linoleum Carving?
Add any new tools or vocabulary that you could use to your "Printmaking Tools and Vocabulary" page in your sketchbook.
How is this monoprinting process different than the previous artist's process? What tools and materials were the same? Which ones were different?