Simple Printmaking: A Beginner's Guide to Making Relief Prints with Rubber Stamps, Linoleum Blocks, Wood Blocks, Found Objects

By Gwen Diehn

Book Overview

"A remarkably creative and inspiring book for beginning printmakers and crafters....Beyond the usual sections on materials, tools, and techniques, it offers one and two page vignettes on Gauguin, Munch, 19th-century Japanese woodcuts, etc....explores eraser prints, carving linoleum blocks, woodcuts, and making printing blocks out of polymer clay."- Library Journal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579903126
• ISBN13: 9781579903121
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Lark Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Starter Book on Printmaking

Although the book indicates developing prints from other media than wood blocks, those are very few. Yet the guide to using wood to produce amazing print blocks, with imagery from those made in the past, encourages an artist to use this media. The beautiful projects, tools needed, step-by-step instructions gave the book a 5-star ranking. There is even a project that shows the steps in simple book-making. You won't be disappointed...

Get your feet wet!

Never took a printmaking class in college...I've been carving erasers and wondering about this new world of relief printing. This book is wonderful.Not too much information on complicated techniques. Enough info to have me working on new ideas. If you're beyond the commercial rubber stamps and/or are an artist hoping to incorporate printed images intomultimedia work...buy this book! Great reference! It'll fill in the blanks...

Simple prints, excellent results

This book is aimed at relief printmaking without a press using a range of techniques from linocuts through to using found objects. The techniques are clearly described and are applied to a number of simple but attractive projects such as single pamphlet books. pillows or cards. The photographs are clear and helpful. I particularly liked the fact that Gwen Diehn went through the clean up process, which is often not covered...