An etching is a print in which the image on paper is created by pressing an etched plate against the paper. The plate is etched through a complex multistep process.  The short explanation of the process is as follows:  First, the artist coats a metal plate with an oil-based material.  This coating is called the […]

A woodcut is a print made by cutting an image into a board. (Technically, a “woodcut” is a print made by cutting the image into the face of the board and is different from a “wood engraving“, in which the image is cut into the endgrain of the wood, though often people refer to all […]

A silkscreen is a type of print which is made through the use of a mesh cloth stretched over a heavy wooden frame.  The cloth is highly permeable, but the artist applies paint, tusche, glue, or other material to block paint from passing through areas of the cloth.  The artist then uses a squeegee to […]