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Relief Printmaking Inks & Palette Knives

Relief printmaking requires inks and palette knives specific to this type of printing. Learn about the materials necessary to start printing with expertise from a printmaker in this free printmaking video.

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Now, I'm going to talk about techniques for printing your block of wood and all that's necessary in preparing your inks for printing. As I mentioned earlier, we are using etching inks. I use etching inks because it has the widest range of colors available and it comes in these size tubes which are easy for me to work with. I use a lot of color when I'm working in woodcut printmaking. So, I'm going to start off by talking a little bit about mixing inks, and the materials needed to mix those inks, and some of the other compounds that you can put into the inks to change your viscosity for what you might need. Now, here we have several of the palette knives that I will use in order to mix my inks. Palette knives just isn't painting, they come in several different sizes. And these are going to be what I'm going to use with these colors of inks, just as I would if I were painting, for example.

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Relief Printmaking Inks & Palette Knives

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