Relief Printmaking Skills Set - Introduction

 

This semester I'm studying relief printmaking at North Metro Tafe.  Our first class was all about finding our way around the print studio, becoming familiar with the inks, roller, presses and the clean up. We used simple pieces of open weave fabric to make these abstract prints in primary colours. Some of my prints (like the one above) have a rainbow background where 2 ink colours were applied to a piece of MDF before the inky fabric was laid on top and the whole thing passed through the press.