Printmaking at home

Kitchen lithography is a fantastic technique that draws from the principles of traditional lithography but uses items found in your kitchen along with just a few standard printmaking items! You can even use a baren to take the print so you can try this at home without a press. A piece of drypoint plastic works …

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In this post I will explain the basic steps of making linocuts at home without a press. I love the craft of linoleum printing and I hope you will tempted to try it as well.

The dream is a huge printmaking studio, with a place for everything, bathed in light from large windows… the reality is, printing at home in the spare room, on the kitchen table or in a corner of the garage.Recently, lots of us have had to rethink how and where we…

PRINT PROCESSES: TECHNIQUES www.printshop.org The listings below describe the principal techniques in traditional and contemporary printmaking. Each of the various methods of printmaking yields a distinctive appearance, and an artist will choose a technique in order to achieve a specific, desired effect. Artists may, and do, combine different techniques. Since some modern techniques are quite complicated, some artists collaborate with a master printer to help create the final work. There are…

Screen Printing: Cheap, Dirty, and at Home: You don't have to spend a ton of money on equipment or have a screen printing studio to make some pretty good quality prints. I taught some friends how to reuse old picture frames and curtains to make screens, burn them in the sun, and clean them …