Exploring Printmaking: A Practical Guide to Printmaking Techniques

By Rudy Silva Silva

Featuring a variety of unique projects to inspire printmakers of all levels, this is a comprehensive introduction to printmaking. This practical guide offers a wide range of skills including monoprinting, block-printing, linoprinting, collagraph, drypoint etching and eco printing. Each printmaking method is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations and is accompanied by simple projects that are a natural progression from the print techniques learned. These activities can be carried out at home without the need for costly or complicated tools and equipment, and include ways of using materials that are easily accessible. Using objects such as bottle tops and kitchen utensils, you'll learn how to create unique designs suitable for printing onto gift tags, fabric and more. The book is suitable for beginners and will also inspire and renew the interest of the more experienced printmaker in these versatile artforms and the multitude of applications that they can be used for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789943027
• ISBN13: 9781789943023
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Herbert Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A Holy Book - in the truest sense

My copy of Original Blessing is falling to pieces as it's been read so often - I bought it some time ago from a church jumble sale, and I can't believe anyone could throw it out! This is a beautiful and deeply spiritual book and Fox is one of my great heroes, with others like bishop Shelby Spong and here in the UK Richard Holloway. All are 'post modern Christians' and would that the mean spirited, literalist homophobics/mysogynists...

A revolutionary rediscovery of Christianity

It's been a long time since I first read this book--almost twenty years--and I'd forgotten just how brilliant it is until I recently returned to it. If anything, my admiration for it this second time around has increased. I honestly think the book is one of the most original theological reflections to come out of the twentieth century.Like all works of genius, the thesis is simple and elegant. Fox's central claim is that...

Blessings of creation

'Just to be is a blessing.Just to live is holy.'-- Abraham HeschelI first discovered the book 'Original Blessing' by Matthew Fox about a dozen years ago; originally published in 1983, it has become a widely read and used spiritual guide for many. My first experience of this book (and I do consider it a genuine experience) coincided with my first trip to St. Gregory's Abbey, a benedictine monastery with which I've maintained...

Very refreshing point of view on spirituality

Fox presents his Creation-Centered theory of spirituality in an easy to understand manner. His ideas on spirituality apply to all religions and denominations. It is a very uplifting and positive way of interpreting our spirituality and existence in the spiritual world. His books also lays out what he refers to as "Paths" which we experience throughout life, and he gives insight on how to deal with, and grow from our...