Type of Art
Painting
We have acrylics, oils, watercolours or gouache. Some people call works with pastels ‘pastel paintings’.
Prints
Printmaking has a long history. Matisse, Goya, Bachinski and Kathe Kollowitz are my favourite printmakers. Fine art prints can be produced using a variety of techniques but what is usually the same about all of them is that they are produced in limited editions. Typically, the goal is that each print taken from an image is identical. An edition of prints is numbered as in 5/15 being the 5th print taken from an image where the total number of prints taken is 15. The tradition is that the original image is destroyed after the edition is made (or ‘pulled’ in the lingo of printmaking).
Prints are typically made on paper or fabric and the original image is typically made by cutting into wood, linoleum or a metal such as copper or aluminium. Lithography involves producing prints on paper from images drawn on limestone blocks with grease pencils. Etchings typically are produced from images that are cut in some way into a material. For example, acid can be used to cut into an image on copper.
Prints can also be taken from images that catch ink in an image that sits raised from a metal. This is my favourite type of printing. Included is ‘drypoint’ and ‘mesotint’. For each of these, scraping or ‘irritating’ the surface of copper, in the making of an image, for example, raises a ‘burr’. When ink is rolled across the surface, the burr picks up the ink and the image can be transferred to paper through pressure.
Printmaking is very techy! It usually requires press equipment for applying pressure.
Screen-printing uses much different processes but what is similar in that images are typically produced in multiples with the images numbered.
Please watch this space as more artworks are added .....
Sculpture
Drawing
Photography
Giass
Multi-media
Craft
Other