Printmaking

Mount Fuji, from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai

Printmaking is making art by printing pictures, normally on paper. The advantage of printmaking is that lots of the same picture can be printed. This is called a print. Each print is not a copy, but an original, since it came from the same source (not like painting or drawing).

Materials

Pictures for prints can be cut into plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching; stone, used for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric plates for screen-printing. Prints may also be published in books by the artist.

Other websites

• A glossary for modern prints
• Large list of links to museum etc. online images of prints
• UnitTwentyFive London Based Print Studio