Print Making 1 -- Relief

A relief print is made by cutting an image into a plate, rolling ink onto the surface, putting paper on top and running it through the press. Where the plate has been cut away, the image will be white. Where the plate has been left intact, the image will be the color of the ink. Wood block prints are relief prints. In our class we used linoleum plates and the prints are called "lino-cut prints". I liked this process a lot. I did two prints, "Flight" and "Hall of Mirrors". I'll return to print making classes next year.