Video: Types of Relief Printing

Block printing is the easiest kind of relief printing. Learn more about different types of relief printing in this free printing lesson from a printmaking instructor.

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There are many different types of print making, but the easiest type of print making that an average can use is block printing. There's two forms of block printing, generally, that artists use. One is using wood and the other is using linoleum. Today we will be discussing how to create your own block print using either one of these and/or both. So there's three types of print making that are generally found. One is relief, one is intaglio and one is plain and graphic. Where the ink is held on the surface determines the type of printmaking. Today we're dealing with relief printmaking, where we take a piece of wood or a piece of linoleum and we carve marks into the surface and we apply ink to the very top surface and then place the paper on top of the block on top of that ink, releasing the ink onto the paper. All of these processes require a block, a plate, or a stone and all of them reverse the image as you can see right here. In terms of art, a relief is generally a three dimensional surface where it's been carved and in this case the wood has been taken away and where we take away that wood it will not hold ink. So all of the areas that we leave behind will be the areas that the ink will show up on the paper.

Types of Relief Printing

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