Printmaking for Beginners: Printmaking Handbook (Printmaking Handbooks) [Paperback]

Jane Stobart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2002 | Series: Printmaking Handbooks

• Sixteen new pages and fifty new artworks


• New chapter on an exciting new process, the carborundum print


• Outstanding primer covers all major printmaking processes in one affordable package


• Replaces Printmaking for Beginners, ISBN 0-8230-4293-6



Monotype, relief printing, intaglio, collograph, screenprinting, and lithography—all the major printmaking processes are thoroughly explained in this ultra-handy guide. For this revised second edition, a chapter on carborundum printing, an exciting new process, has been added to make Printmaking for Beginners the most up-to-date and complete book on its subject. Hundreds of examples of the work of both beginning and accomplished printmakers illustrate the many different and exciting effects possible with the many different and exciting techniques—and fifty new artworks have been added specially for this edition. Practical and inspiring, packed with illustrations and recommendations on tools, paper, equipment, materials, and safe working practices, this is the one book to have for anyone working in printmaking today.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

These two volumes are excellent guides to the very latest in printmaking techniques. Stobart's is a basic guide to the processes of monotype, relief, intaglio, collograph, screen, and lithography. She makes highly creative use of the media. For students wanting a more traditional examination of the subject, see Susan Lambert's Prints: Art and Techniques, which uses examples from Hogarth to Vasarely. Westley's volume encompasses the many exciting and imaginative developments in relief printmaking in recent years. She describes both traditional and progressive modes of practice and illustrates the growing crossover between Eastern and Western printmaking. Both books are recommended.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Jane Stobart, a noted printmaker, teaches at Goldsmith’s College in London. A fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, she lives in England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823042936
• ISBN-13: 978-0823042937
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,980,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ...but NOT for collagraphy beginners, August 28, 2003

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This review is from: Printmaking for Beginners: Printmaking Handbook (Printmaking Handbooks) (Paperback)

Was looking for updated info re collagraphy techniques for newbies and water-based and acrylic inks for same. Gleaned enough from older books to know that collagraphy is relatively easy for beginners because no expensive printmaking press was required to apply pressure, only simple household utensils were quite adequate (and often preferable).

This book devotes seven pages to collagraphy and only mentions an oil-based ink/mechanical press method of producing collagraphic prints. Very disappointing, especially since many professional quality collagraphs today are printed using the manual, "pressless" technique.

If you'd like to begin a more simple printmaking experience by making monoprints, or either wood or linoleum block prints, or perhaps screenprints, then you're in luck. The book is full of clear illustrations, instructions and color repros of finished prints. The other "press-dependent" printmaking methods are well covered here as well. Not heavy on details, but rock-solid on the basics that a beginner needs.

Thus, my rating is: 1 star for collagraphy beginners, and 5 stars for everyone else. 3 stars splits the difference.