MAY 10th
On May 10, 2014 from 11 -2PM, Urbandale Public Library Art Gallery will be holding a steamroller printing event. We will use a steamroller to print artwork from the following high schools:
Urbandale, Johnston, Dowling, and Valley
Local printmakers and some Iowa State University Grad Students will also be on hand printing their giant relief prints.
By giant I mean 8 foot by 4 foot. It is open to the public and we encourage everyone to come and see this being done first hand. There will be a show of the finished prints at the Gallery form May 15 - June 30th.
Email us any questions you may have.
On May 10, 2014 from 11 -2PM, Urbandale Public Library Art Gallery will be holding a steamroller printing event. We will use a steamroller to print artwork from the following high schools:
Urbandale, Johnston, Dowling, and Valley
Local printmakers and some Iowa State University Grad Students will also be on hand printing their giant relief prints.
By giant I mean 8 foot by 4 foot. It is open to the public and we encourage everyone to come and see this being done first hand. There will be a show of the finished prints at the Gallery form May 15 - June 30th.
Email us any questions you may have.
What is steamroller printing?
Steamroller printing is simply relieve printing that uses a steamroller as the pressure to transfer the ink from the block onto the paper or fabric. Usually this is done with a printing press and the artist turns two rollers and smashes the block, ink, and paper together to make a print. The steamroller really is just a fun way to do the same thing but on a much larger scale. Typically, print size is limited by the press used. In the case of steamroller printing, the only size limitation is how wide the steamroller is. In our case we are going to attempt 8’ X 4’ prints on fabric.
Well what is relief printing?
The simplest form of relief printing is stamping. Part of the the stamp is raised and that part gets ink on it. Part of it is recessed and that part does not get ink. When the stamp is inked and then pressed down on paper the image that was raised is now printed on the paper. Where the stamp was recessed the paper shows through.
Other forms of relief printing are really just a variation stamping. Artists carve away parts of a flat surface leaving a raised surface that will be inked and then transferred onto paper or fabric. Often this is done on wood blocks or linoleum.
In other forms of printmaking, artists carve away parts of the plate with the purpose of leaving ink within the carved areas and wiping the ink off of the raised parts. Our money is printed this way and is called engraving. Intaglio does the same thing but uses acids to eat away the metal plates as apposed to carving the material away.
Mono-prints is a form of printing that often uses an uncarved plate (usually plexiglass) and the artist simply applies ink onto the plate in any number of ways. Could be a paintbrush or inked leaves found in your backyard. There is a lot of variety in mono-prints. What makes it a mono-print is that unlike other forms of printing, each time an artist makes one it is unique. The underlining purpose of most printing is to make multiple copies of the same image mono-print are not held to this standard.
Screen printing is a form of printing that we come in contact most everyday. Graphics on T-shirts are printed this way. Ink is forced through a stretched screen onto a shirt using a squeegee. A stencil is used to control were the ink is printed onto the shirt.
Steamroller printing is simply relieve printing that uses a steamroller as the pressure to transfer the ink from the block onto the paper or fabric. Usually this is done with a printing press and the artist turns two rollers and smashes the block, ink, and paper together to make a print. The steamroller really is just a fun way to do the same thing but on a much larger scale. Typically, print size is limited by the press used. In the case of steamroller printing, the only size limitation is how wide the steamroller is. In our case we are going to attempt 8’ X 4’ prints on fabric.
Well what is relief printing?
The simplest form of relief printing is stamping. Part of the the stamp is raised and that part gets ink on it. Part of it is recessed and that part does not get ink. When the stamp is inked and then pressed down on paper the image that was raised is now printed on the paper. Where the stamp was recessed the paper shows through.
Other forms of relief printing are really just a variation stamping. Artists carve away parts of a flat surface leaving a raised surface that will be inked and then transferred onto paper or fabric. Often this is done on wood blocks or linoleum.
In other forms of printmaking, artists carve away parts of the plate with the purpose of leaving ink within the carved areas and wiping the ink off of the raised parts. Our money is printed this way and is called engraving. Intaglio does the same thing but uses acids to eat away the metal plates as apposed to carving the material away.
Mono-prints is a form of printing that often uses an uncarved plate (usually plexiglass) and the artist simply applies ink onto the plate in any number of ways. Could be a paintbrush or inked leaves found in your backyard. There is a lot of variety in mono-prints. What makes it a mono-print is that unlike other forms of printing, each time an artist makes one it is unique. The underlining purpose of most printing is to make multiple copies of the same image mono-print are not held to this standard.
Screen printing is a form of printing that we come in contact most everyday. Graphics on T-shirts are printed this way. Ink is forced through a stretched screen onto a shirt using a squeegee. A stencil is used to control were the ink is printed onto the shirt.
This is a power point made after visiting the Iowa State University Steamroller Printing event Fall 2013. I made it so you can see step-by-step what we are attempting in Urbandale on May 10th.
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This video is a nice look at a woodcut printmaker. Know that the prints we will be making on May 10th are only one color.
Not really the typr of steamroller printing we will be doing but a very cool idea.
STEAM - The Monoprint Project from crstokes83 on Vimeo.
