Especialidades JA/Tipografía xilográfica

Tipografía Xilográfica
Asociación General Artes y Habilidades Manuales	Destreza: 2 Año de introducción: 1945

Requisitos

3. Using a potato, carve a design incorporating your initials into it, and use it to print your initials on paper.

Remember to reverse the letters and to put your first initial on the right side of the potato, and your last initial on the left.

4. Design and print at least one greeting card.

For this, we highly recommend that you use linoleum for the printing block. As you should well know from your experience with the previous requirement, potato printing leaves a lot to be desired.

5. Design and print one bookplate or book cover.

Follow the procedure outlined in the previous requirement. A bookplate is a small piece of paper that is glued to the inside cover of a book to identify the owner. This obviously will require you to print some text, as that's the only way most of us write our names. A book cover should have the book's title as well as the author's name. It should be large enough to cover the outside of the book.

6. Going through the steps of designing, carving, and printing, create another original piece of work of your choice.

This could be a poster, another greeting card, another bookplate, another book cover, or whatever you would like to make. Repeating a carved pattern, while rotating it and/or changing the color can can create art work worth framing.

This requirement should be saved for last - it's your masterpiece!

References

• Wikipedia articles
  • Brayer
  • Baren
• How to resources
  • Good How to Video on block printing
  • Much easier way to block print with hobby foam.
  • Block print tutorial