Chapter 8: Relief Printmaking

What tools are utilized for relief printing?

• gouges of various lengths, knives,and chisels

• lounges of different kinds of shapes. pocket knives, and diesel

• gouges of one size, with various chisels.

• gouges of various widths,knives, and chisels

What are some examples of relief print that can help non-artists get a general idea of what relief printing is?

• fingerprints, rubber stamps, and wet tires

• carving, ink splashes, and marks left on paper,

• when we ink a surface and leave behind accidental marks on paper

• if an artists prints for their own relief, then it is called relief printing.

What matrix is used in the relief process?

• the matrix is used to create a

• the process is inking the hollow areas of the wood or linoleum, then applying the ink.

• the artists uses either wood or linoleum, then proceeds to carve out the areas of the printing surface not meant to carry ink.

• using the wood cut, the surface is scratched of all surfaces not going to be inked, leaving all the shallow areas to hold the ink.

In relief printing, a tool for cutting and clearing areas from a block of wood or linoleum is called a-

• Relief

• Gouge

• Baren

• Brayer

A technique in which the image is printed from a raised surface.

• Monoprint

• Relief

• Proofs

• Brayer

What is printmaking?

• When you carve or etch a plate or block that can be printed.

• When you print something of a computer.

• When you make a painting, scan it and then print it.

• When you print off a photo you have taken.

What technique involves printing the top surface of the plate?

• Collograph

• Intaglio

• Planographic

• Relief

When using the relief method, what is ink applied to the plate with?

• a brush

• an ink pen

• a silk screen

• a brayer

Roller used to spread ink on a relief plate.

• Brayer

• Plate

• Edition

• Bench hook

A means of making prints by creating a raised design on a flat surface, usually produced by cutting away non-image material. The design is inked or covered with color and stamped on paper or another surface.

• BLOCK

• RELIEF PRINT

• REDUCTION METHOD

• REGISTRATION