Block Print Magic: The Essential Guide to Designing, Carving, and Taking Your ArtW...

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epub | 140.26 MB | English | Isbn:9781631596162 | Author: Emily Louise Howard | Year: 2022

About ebook: Block Print Magic: The Essential Guide to Designing, Carving, and Taking Your Artwork Further with Relief Printing

An essential guide to linoleum block printing techniques, with seventeen step-by-step projects and insights from some of today's most talented printmakers.

Block Print Magic is the perfect reference for a wide range of printmaking enthusiasts. The easy-to-follow illustrated instruction takes you through every step of the process, beginning with choosing and caring for tools and setting up a studio, through design essentials, carving techniques, and printing techniques. Those techniques include multi-block printing, reduction cuts, puzzle blocks, and rainbow-roll printing. Advanced carving techniques for creating textures, crosshatching, and three-dimensional shading will give you the opportunity to expand and strengthen your expertise.

Among the visually stunning projects you'll learn to create:
[*]Colorful, multi-block hex sign
[*]Reduction cut sunflowers print
[*]One-page pocket zine from a single block
[*]Fabric wall hanging embellished with embroidery

Along with author Emily Howard's own work, artist spotlights feature interviews with and examples of work by five other contemporary artists-Lili Arnold, Jen Hewett, Kelli MacConnell, Derrick Riley, and Aftyn Shah-as a means of clarifying how each technique can be used in different ways.

Category:Art, Architecture & Photography, Art - Techniques, Other Artistic Techniques, Printmaking

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