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Printmaker's Club
In the following journal, you can read up on how to join, submission policy, and information on the various printmaking processes.

Member Bios / Full List of Members


Administrators
Need some help fast? Please drop a note to an admin if you need us. Cheers from your admins: Von, Rebecca, and Josh.



To Join
The printmakers club is a community for all artists who have an interest in printmaking. You do not have to submit to the gallery to be added to the club.
1. To join, just send a note entitled "Join" and you will be added to the member list.


Members and Submissions
1. Members may post a link to any of their work in the comments section (doesn't have to be printmaking related). Upcoming art shows and print sales welcome as well. You don't have to submit to the clubs main gallery to interact.
2. Submissions Must have origins in printmaking media, be the artist's original work,
and please send no more than 4/5 submissions at a time.
Send a note entitled "Submit". If you post it in the comments section, it won't get posted to the gallery.



Subscription Donators and Donations
Subscription Donation: Helebelles
Texture Image from Rob's Textures: Briteshine


The Artform of Printmaking
Printmaking is the form of creating art by technical processes using ink. For those not familiar with printmaking as an art, if you ever tried linoleum in school, than you've tried the simplest of the printmaking processes. Much of the beauty of printmaking comes from the laborious technique and effects that can only be achieved in the traditional arts in these forms.
The four divisions of printmaking:

NEW NEWS


- For as long as we have a subscription, I'm going to feature one technique every two weeks, today it's: Sugar Lift!


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And don't forget to check out her wonderful news article on printmaking here.
If everyone favorites it we can keep it around for as long as possible and help promote understanding of printmaking on Deviant Art






Printmakers Club

A Deviant art club for those interested in printmaking and/or make prints with traditional printmaking processes.

The Artform of Printmaking

Printmaking is the form of creating art by technical processes using ink. For those not familiar with printmaking as an art, if you ever tried linoleum in school, than you've tried the simplest of the printmaking processes. Much of the beauty of printmaking comes from the laborious technique and effects that can only be achieved in the traditional arts in these forms.


The four divisions of printmaking:

(1) Relief. Ink sits on the raised surfaces and is transferred to paper. Examples, woodcut, linoleum and colograph.



(2)Intaglio. Ink sits in surfaces below the surface of the plate. Examples, Etching, engravings, dry point.



(3) Planography. Inks sit on a flat surface, by chemical means. Examples, lithographs and monotypes.


(4)Serigraphy or silkscreen. Involves screen stencils in which ink passes through the open pores of the screen onto printed area.


This does not include all printmaking processes, but gives a brief overview.

Etching process in which the artist paints directly on an ungrounded plate with a solution of sugar and gum Arabic (or sometimes Indian ink). Adding a little ink will make the solution easier to see when painting onto plate. Changes can be made simply wiping the solution off the plate and redrawing. When the final drawing is established, it is dried, then covered with a ground, which is in turn dried. The plate is then immersed in water. The sugar solution lifts off the plate, leaving that area exposed, while the ground around it remains. The plate is then bitten in an acid bath usually after being aquatinted (the aquatint won't get through the ground) (see previous feature!).

Examples:






To Join:

The printmakers club is a community for all artists who have an interest in printmaking. You do not have to submit to the gallery to be added to the club.

1. To join, just send a note entitled "Join" and watch the club and I will add your avatar to the signature list.


Membership

1. Members may post a link to any of their work in the comments section (doesn't have to be printmaking related).

2. Please submit your favorite works to the gallery as often as you'd like . To submit work for the gallery
- It must have origins in some printmaking media
- It must be your own work
- Send a note entitled "Submit". If you post it in the comments section, it won't get posted to the gallery.


Member Bios / Full List of Members




Chat!

Printmakers Chatroom

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As you can Imagen it would be difficult thing to run a contest in printmaking as most people have limited access to printmaking workshops and materials and most of the work we do is school/college orientated or project based.
However there is another side of contemporary Printmaking which is (rightfully?) overlooked on DA, digital prints. This is a very broad term and for the purpose of this competition we would focus on enhancing existing prints with the aid of modern technology. People who do not have access to this technology could use traditional methods of mixed media.


You can use any kind of program to edit your print from MS paint to Photoshop
You can paint, draw on, collage, burn, stipple, spray, do absolutly anything to your print.
You must submit links to the original print as well as the edited competition entry
This will be the only time the club accepts digital work and all entry's will be uploaded into our scraps. (You will be able to view entrants all together at any time by viewing scraps)
Both the original print and your editing of it must be completely your own work and by submitting to this competition you are saying just that.

Carborundum was originally used by printmakers to grind down lithography stones. It is a fine metal sand which is poured sparingly onto the stone and mixed with water, the stone is then ground using a grinder or another lithography stone until it is smooth and the printmakers arm is very tired. If the stone is not properly ground down there could be scrapes visible in the dark parts of the lithograph, or the previous image that was on the stone may show through.

Carborundum is now used in Colograph prints to create gradients of tone and a sandy texture.
It works because when the carborundum adheres to the plate the ink sits around it. It can be applied in a number of different ways.
- Painting onto the plate with PVA glue and then sprinkling the carborundum onto it
- Mixing different amounts of glue with it and then painting them on in sections, the more grit used the darker. Example: 1 spoon of carborundum to 5 spoons of glue will be much lighter than 5 spoons of carborundum to 5 spoons of glue.
- Using stencils to apply the glue and sprinkling different amounts of Carborundum through the different stencils.

The printer then waits for the glue to dry, and covers the plate with ink, being sure that it is fully absorbed. The plate is then wiped down using scrim (a type of straw-like mesh cloth) very carefully, so as not to wipe off the carborundum. When it is sufficiently wiped down the plate is printed in the press. Very large editions are not possible as a small amount of carborundum comes off every time it is wiped down.


If you know any good carborundum deviations by yourself or any one else send them to me and I'll put them up here!


Carborundum is quite expensive, but a cheap and very effective alternative is "Chinchilla Grit" which you should be able to find in your local pet shop, It is a little less fine than most grades of carborundum, but it works just as well.






Chine-collé roughly translates from French to: chine meaning tissue and collé meaning glue or paste. This process is a method of collage used in Printmaking.
First a plate is inked up as normal, then placed on the press ready for printing.
Then the printmaker places down a sheet a thin paper which has been coverd with glue (spray on glue is the easiest to use for this). The glue side faces upards so that it will adhere to the normal paper which is placed on top.
This is then printed. The print will be on the lighter paper, which is now glued to the heavy paper.
You can read more about it on wikipedia here.

Examples :


If you know any good chine collé prints by yourself or anyone else send me a note and I'll put them here!






Aquatint is a form of Etching and an intaglio technique.
An aquatint begins with a copper or zinc plate. The artist applies a ground by either dissolving powdered resin in spirits or applying the powder (Aquatint resin) directly to the surface of the plate. The plate is then heated to melt the powder (or evaporate the spirits leaving only the melted powder). The acid will not etch (bite / "burn") the places covered by the specks of aquatint, but will etch around them, so the plate is left with this stippeled texture, which comes out as tone in the final print. The longer the plate is left in the acid the darker the tone will be, and so different tones are possible.

Examples:











Etching process in which the artist paints directly on an ungrounded plate with a solution of sugar and gum Arabic (or sometimes Indian ink). Adding a little ink will make the solution easier to see when painting onto plate. Changes can be made simply wiping the solution off the plate and redrawing. When the final drawing is established, it is dried, then covered with a ground, which is in turn dried. The plate is then immersed in water. The sugar solution lifts off the plate, leaving that area exposed, while the ground around it remains. The plate is then bitten in an acid bath usually after being aquatinted (the aquatint won't get through the ground) (see previous feature!).

Examples:

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NEW NEWS

We will go back to this when the subscription runs out

I felt that one deviation had been featured for a very long time, so I changed it, but you can vote for your favorite piece here. and whichever gets the most votes (or any votes) will be featured instead!

Something new! Member Bios





Printmakers Club

A Deviant art club for those interested in printmaking and/or make prints with traditional printmaking processes.

The Artform of Printmaking

Printmaking is the form of creating art by technical processes using ink. For those not familiar with printmaking as an art, if you ever tried linoleum in school, than you've tried the simplest of the printmaking processes. Much of the beauty of printmaking comes from the laborious technique and effects that can only be achieved in the traditional arts in these forms.


The four divisions of printmaking: (1) Relief. Ink sits on the raised surfaces and is transferred to paper. Examples, woodcut and linoleum. (2)Intaglio. Ink sits in surfaces below the surface of the plate. Examples, Etching, engravings, dry point. (3) Planography. Inks sit on a flat surface, by chemical means. Examples, lithographs and monotypes. (4)Serigraphy or silkscreen. Involves screen stencils in which ink passes through the open pores of the screen onto printed area. This does not include all printmaking processes, but gives a brief overview.


To Join:

The printmakers club is a community for all artists who have an interest in printmaking. You do not have to submit to the gallery to be added to the club.

1. To join, just send a note entitled "Join" and watch the club and I will add your avatar to the signature list.


Membership

1. Members may post a link to any of their work in the comments section (doesn't have to be printmaking related).

2. Please submit your favorite works to the gallery as often as you'd like . To submit work for the gallery
- It must have origins in some printmaking media
- It must be your own work
- Send a note entitled "Submit". If you post it in the comments section, it won't get posted to the gallery.


Administrators:



Members:



Newbies:




Member Bios


Affiliates



Chat!

Printmakers Chatroom

Message board (sort of!)