Zoya's SAS Blog

This project was our second printmaking project. We used some metal carving tools to carve out lines in plexiglass to make our prints. After we finished the carving stage we had to take some ink and roll it out onto the plexiglass. Once the plexiglass was thoroughly covered you then had to take a cheesecloth and wipe off the extra ink and press the ink into the lines. Once the majority was off you could take a q-tip and clean it up just a bit more. While working on all of this your paper would be sitting in water and once you're ready, you dry it off a bit and then you're ready to print. For this project, we used a printing press to make out prints. You put the plexiglass down, ink side up then laid the paper down on top. After that, you'd flip the press so that they were covered and then roll it across and voila! You have a print. I think the difficult part of this was getting a print that looked. nice. I went through 5 or six that didn't turn out the best befo...

For this project, we started a new unit, the printmaking unit. In this unit, we used some new materials including a carving tool, a brayer and a barren. The process for printing starts with tracing the image you want to print onto a piece of paper. From there you trace the simplified image onto both sides of the Linoleum block. One side with the silhouette, the other with details. From there you carve both sides out. Once that is done you use a brayer to put ink onto the silhouette side and then put a paper on top after which you use a barren to help the transfer. After that dries you use another color of ink on the detailed side and repeat the process. The end looks like the images above. I really liked how the endproduct turned out, especially the first one. I wish that I had made the carvings match up so that I wouldn't have had to do it by hand though.