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What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
2015-2016
What (is) a Relief?
Relief printmaking was the first printmaking process invented, and has its origins in seals in China around 255 BCE. At its most basic, one can think of a stamp as a relief print. The artist uses tools to cut away portions of the matrix (a wood block, linoleum sheet, Styrofoam, etc.), leaving behind a raised image area, which is then printed on a substrate (paper, fabric, etc.). To this day, relief printmaking is still the most accessible form of printmaking because a press is not required to make a print – just the matrix, ink, pressure …