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Reductive printmaking stages demonstrated through styrofoam.
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Reductive Print- Makinga basic introduction
With reductive printmaking, the
artist creates a composition with
layered colours from the same
block.
For each colour pass, the artist removes material from the block. Each colour is printed on top of the previous and therefore, the block gets reduced. To understand this better, it will be demonstrated on a piece of foam using a ball point pen.
stage 1 stage 2 stage 3
First, you need to consider what you
want to be white on your print.
In this example, it will be the blue pen lines as it will become the
negative space.
You should also remember that your image will come out
mirrored!
The styrofoam is inked and printed.
With each new layer, the block will need to be washed.
Now, additional areas will be
carved away. This area will now
remain yellow.
The styrofoam is inked and printed
again.
You also need to register (align) your
print correctly on top of the previous print.
Again, the block will need to be washed.
Additional areas will be carved away again to create a third
layer of colour.
Again register (align) your print correctly on top of the previous
print.
Here is the final composition.
Here you can review the stages again, with their individual prints.
CREATED BY FRANK CURKOVIC - 2014(FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES)
http://flavors.me/frankcurkovic
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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