Emily Louise Howard

Block Print Magic (eBook, ePUB)

The Essential Guide to Designing, Carving, and Taking Your Artwork Further with Relief Printing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential guide to linoleum block printing techniques, with seventeen step-by-step projects and insights from some of today's most talented printmakers. Block Print Magic is the perfect reference for a wide range of printmaking enthusiasts. The easy-to-follow illustrated instruction takes you through every step of the process, beginning with choosing and caring for tools and setting up a studio, through design essentials, carving techniques, and printing techniques. Those techniques include multi-block printing, reduction cuts, puzzle blocks, and rainbow-roll printing. Advanced carving techniques for creating textures, crosshatching, and three-dimensional shading will give you the opportunity to expand and strengthen your expertise. Among the visually stunning projects you'll learn to create:

• Colorful, multi-block hex sign
• Reduction cut sunflowers print
• One-page pocket zine from a single block
• Fabric wall hanging embellished with embroidery

Along with author Emily Howard's own work, artist spotlights feature interviews with and examples of work by five other contemporary artists-Lili Arnold, Jen Hewett, Kelli MacConnell, Derrick Riley, and Aftyn Shah-as a means of clarifying how each technique can be used in different ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rockport Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 439
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631596162
• Artikelnr.: 55280951

Autorenporträt

Emily Howard is the heart, hands, and mind behind The Diggingest Girl*-the name of her print business, popular instagram account, and Etsy shop. Along with selling her work online, Emily shows her work throughout the year at print, art, and craft exhibitions from Michigan to Georgia. Emily was born in Vermont, raised in Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky, where she received a BFAin painting. Emily went on to get her MFAin painting and her MAAEwith K-12 licensure at the University of Cincinnati. She carves her blocks and prints her work full time in Erlanger, Kentucky.