Printmaking Vocabulary

Art elements are:

• Line, shape, tone, texture, form, time and light.

• The materials used to preserve a final print.

• Space, repetition (pattern), unity (harmony), variety, movement, balance, contrast, proportion and scale.

• A combination of pictures that make up a montage.

Art Principles are:

• Space, repetition (pattern), unity (harmony), variety, movement, balance, contrast, proportion and scale

• Line, shape, tone, texture, form, time and light.

• The headmaster at your school who likes to draw.

• How a narrative is communicated through camera angles.

Printmaking is:

• Using paint and a paintbrush to recreate a landscape.

• A painting or drawing of a person, showing only the face, head and shoulders.

• a technique of making art, that can be mass produced, that involves transferring an

  image from a print block to another surface, like paper.

• Artworks that have depth as well as height and width, such as sculpture and installation.

In printmaking a plate is:

• What the teacher does when the class doesn't listen to instructions. :)

• What you eat your dinner off.

• The type of paint brush you use to create hair texture in your drawing.

• The block or surface that a print is made from.

A collagraph print is:

• A type of artists tool that is worn around the neck.

• Made from a process that uses a block constructed of objects to form a picture for printing.

• The special measurements made to get the right size frame.

• A sound recording that is used to soften the ink for printmaking.

A relief print is:

• A very happy print indeed.

• A print that works perfectly every time.

• A print that uses the raised part of the plate for the print.

• A print that uses the carved or sunken areas of the plate for the print.

Registration is:

• A system to ensure that several plates can be printed in accurate alignment, also

  used to align paper to plate for a single plate print.

• Signing up for an event before the day.

• When only one print is made from an inked surface.

• A print that uses only the raised part of the plate for the print.

To burnish is to:

• Set something on fire.

• To heat the ink to 22 degrees C before inking the plate.

• Apply the ink to the plate evenly in smooth swipes.

• Smooth a surface by rubbing it with a tool that has a hard, smooth surface.

A proof is:

• A print outside the edition but not necessarily different from it. A practice print.

• Telling the truth about where you got your design ideas from.

• Rules about how to print correctly when using a large printing press.

• The final print in an edition, it shows that you have finished a run of prints.

An edition is:

• The placement or arrangement of elements, components or conventions in artworks.

• The first newspaper of the day.

• The block or surface that a print is being made from.

• A series of prints that are very similar to one another, if not exactly the same. They will have a fraction like number in the corner to identify where it comes in the printing.