The Printmaking Ideas Book

There are great ideas here for beginners as well as veteran printmakers.

the Book it’s great but For an amateur

This book is great. It has clear and concise explanations of the various printmaking processes and includes unique creativity sparkers. Inspiring and practical all rolled into one.

I liked the idea of adding tips and suggestions inside the brief descriptive statement of each piece!

Not useful for me. When I get a printmaking book, I am interested in the technical aspect as to how the artists creates the print.

I'm new to block printing and was hoping to find lots of ideas. Instead, it's filled with language and techniques that only an advanced art school student would understand. I would have returned it but the cost of shipping made it not worth it.

It is such a pity that the content is good, but it has been done on the cheap. I would have happily paid say £20 to have it on better quality bigger sized pages and paper - would have done more justice to the images - some of which are devided in 2 by the seam.As it is so tightly bound you cannot open pages flat to see the image properly - if I were the artists concerned, I would be livid!However the content is very worthwhile and suggestions as to how to vary a method are very interesting and not collected together elsewhere. The approach is lively and creative, I defy any artist willing to venture off the standard method not to find anything in this book to 'have a go' However you need to have a little bit of experience. The instructions are very much 2-3 line suggested ideas. Some of the techniques deserve very much more - eg Linoprint does not include using different plates, or reduction printing .... at lease I couldn't find themEach inspirational page has an image on the opposite page. Finding a particular technique through the list of contents is very difficult, and there is no index at the back to put things in alphabetical order. A dipping in -'that looks interesting', is the way I will use it.So why have I given it 3 stars? It's exactly my kind of book! I like experimenting and perhaps this comes from had the time to do a degree which encouraged this. There is lots and lots here which I want too explore, However my instant reaction is to see how I make it physically easier to read - rebinding it is some way so it can be opened flat - a zig-zag book would be exciting - might even buy a second copy to make that possible! (thought goes through my mind that it was 'home published;' and not offered to a publisher who would have done it more justice, purely to get it published and in the artist's hands...... and minds.') An example as to how I will use it - I am to do a printing course to explore the themes the 'Lines. I had already developed this into 'life lines'. By going through the book with this in mind I have gathered ideas which I explore - eg, taking images of a plant growing and making prints out of these, or taking sunflower seeds and use them in a collograph. - you don't have to be 'going on a course' but choose your own theme, and work through the book and see where you mind takes you!

I am a printmaker and this book is just what is says on the tin. It is a survey of ideas for printmaking, illustrating each idea with a work by a contemporary printmaker. Some are perhaps obvious, some are good to be reminded of, some unusual but all arising out of an examination of real art practice. The images are all of good quality, though small, and in the full colour (unless monochrome originally), unlike many books on print. The book also serves as a review of contemporary practice with 80 artists included, with their names and websites, making it easy to look further at a particular artist's work if you wish.As others have said, it is a small book, economy printed, but I think that makes it accessible. Printed at a larger size, with glossy pics, it would be a sumptuous book costing £30 at the very least .It's a great, little, affordable book for nerdy printmakers like me.

A great little book full of inspiration and while it isn't a step by step instruction guide which is never claims to be the text is fairly easy and concise to digest. I have already recommended this to a few other students. I got this because my course is about printmaking and etching and wanted to know what I could do at home as colleges are now closed due to pandemic.

GREAT IDEAS GOOD READ

I like the range of ideas and the presentation,I dislike the lack of detail about the various processes but,then again, it is a small ,taster type book