Printmaking is the discipline I trained in as an undergraduate. This discipline provides me with opportunities to combine creativity with technical process. The activities undertaken within the Visual Art & Design learning area focused on three techniques – linocut, drypoint and screenprint and again built on imagery developed while exploring the other disciplines. 

On reflection: 
  • Printmaking skills can be taught quickly in a lesson and provide opportunities for the development of vastly different aesthetic qualities. My Drypoint Lesson has allowed me to explain the history and process of drypoint printmaking and have students prepare a matrix and print an image in a single workshop.
  • Printmaking techniques highlight the crossover between disciplines. Artists apply drawing techniques when preparing a lithography plate, and painting techniques when applying a resist onto an etching plate or a silkscreen. Woodcut techniques translate to carving skill allied to carving reductive sculptures.
  • One of my fundamental interests when teaching the printmaking discipline is getting students to consider developments in printmaking as a result of technological advancement. Artists now combine traditional techniques, with techniques from the age of mechanical reproduction and the age of digital reproduction to create unique creative practices.
Linocut
RotationalTessellation
Drypoint
Drypoint
ARTISTS
Screenprint
Cyanotype