Print Making

Key Vocab Terms

Print

A design or image printed from an engraved plate, wooden block, or similar surface

Woodcut

A relief technique, wood-block cut into leaving the design in relief

Intaglio printing

A print process where the inked image is lower tham the surface

Engraving

Carving into a plate, you are physically carving

The "Engraved" line

Steady controlled line

Etching

Using acid bath

Silk Screen Printing

A method of printing using a stencil process in which the image is imposed on a screen made of silk, polyester, or other fine meshes

Pop Art

An art movement of the early 1960s that challenged traditional subjects and forms of art

Diptych

A picture or series of pictures painted or carved on two hinged tablets