Print Coursework - Research page

The History of Printmaking- Research page

Name of website	Link	Description
Fine Art Printmaking	http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/printmaking.htm	This website is one that gives information on the different types of printmaking and how they were used in the past, as well as how they are used today. I used this for their glossary of all the different types of printmaking.
Prepressure.com	http://www.prepressure.com/printing/history	This website gives information on printing and the page from it I used was all about the history of printmaking over the centuries.
Lower east side printshop	http://www.printshop.org/web/Learn/Glossary/	This website is also has a glossary for the different types of printmaking. The overall website is meant for giving information on the classes that you can attend if you want to do printmaking.
Masterworks fine art	http://www.masterworksfineart.com/education/printmaking-techniques/	This website is a fine art website, giving it’s audience information on different artists and art education. This website also tells you when the latest exhibitions are taking place and where they are held, you can also purchase artwork from them and it tells you how you can do that. What I used this website for was their own glossary of terms and definitions for different types of printmaking. Unlike the rest of the glossaries I looked at, this one gives you a list with links to the information so you don’t spend forever looking for what you want.
3D Print Headquarters	http://3dprinthq.com/how-3d-printing-has-evolved-in-the-last-10-years/	This particular website it dedicated to all things on 3D printing, providing info on the history as well as the latest news. I found this particularly useful as I had no clue about 3D printing at all.
Trotec	http://www.troteclaser.com/en-US-GB/Support/FAQs/Pages/How-to-Laser-Engrave.aspx	This is a website dedicated to all things laser which includes cutting and graving. It gives you information on the different types of lasering, the materials used and a how to guide.
Interview with Mary Wells	Mary wells interview: Q: When did you start playing around with p m in art in a more serious way? M(answer): I started printmaking at GCSE year 10 but i never really tried out the more mechanical style of printing where you use plastic and metal to create prints until A level, but now I'm starting to take it seriously in foundation and taking it seriously as a course to take at university in the future. O: Could you name a few of the different forms of printmaking that you have used or been taught/ come across? M(answer): The more simple forms of print like mono print, relief print i've used since GCSE and they're quite easy to do, but the ones that i started to use more often in foundation and A level now are screen printing, dry point etching, and doing them in several different ways and different formats doing these different prints. M: My favorite would have to be dry point etching though, which can be done on a metal copper plate or on a plastic plate. O: Could you name a pro and con for each of these you've mentioned? M: Dry point etching is the closest form of printmaking to drawing where you actually scratch into a material, the con to it is that if you do it with metal you have to use acid and you have to be quite careful because it can end up either ruining your work or ruining your hands, it's quite a long winded process and you never know how your print's gonna turn out but that can also be a pro because it's quite a nice surprise pulling the paint back and seeing your print. (I ended up forgetting to ask about the rest oops) Q: Would you say that this was the one you enjoyed the most: Yeah, mainly because my prints turned out well. Q. Which type of printmaking would you say is your least favorite to use? M: Probably screen printing, it's a bit of a faff to do. Um it's quite different and there are different ways to do screen printing but it usually involves using quite block colours, and it's quite abstract usually, or you can go quite minimalist but I don't really like it. It's quite messy as well There's a lot of preparation and a lot of cleaning. Q:So, looking again at your shark one that you showed me earlier, why a shark? why did you choose that?  M: At the beginning of the week we were given (in college) some secondary sources to work with so we went to brick lane, I used a shark because it linked to a hat that I bought from brick lane so I created the shark with a sort of grungy look that I got from brick lane. Um and there's loads of street art down there, on brick lane so I was inspired by that and I really like sharks anyway so I decided to draw an illustration of a shark, and produce it in a grungy way that sort of replicated brick lane street art.  Q: What would you do differently about that design if you could do it again? M: I was quite pleased with it but when you go on the internet and look at other peoples etchings you realize where you can improve on. So I think if maybe if I gave a more tone to it, cause lots of etchings you find on the internet have lots of contrast in dark and light but mine was a bit more based on the line and illustration so I think if I add more tone to it and gave it a darker, more tonal look it could have improved it more, and if I tried it on different surfaces as well.  ~Finished~	The second I heard about what we were doing for this assignment I already had this person on my mind as an interview subject. Mary is currently studying fine art as a uni foundation at Cambridge Regional College and is specializing in Printmaking at the moment which is why she was perfect to talk to. It was all well researching these methods but I needed to hear from someone who has actually done some of these methods themselves. I recorded the interview on my phone and then played it back and copied it into a transcript because I couldn’t upload the voice recording to this.
How does 3D printing work – YouTube video	https://youtu.be/UCI7BgLrk-4	This youtube video was a 7 minute long video which gave an insight into how 3D printing works. As someone who had no idea how it worked, it was useful to have someone on video explain to me how it worked. This was more helpful for the glossary research as it was a more in depth description of the method but the information from this video was used in both the glossary and the article.
A brief history on 3D printing	http://individual.troweprice.com/staticFiles/Retail/Shared/PDFs/3D_Printing_Infographic_FINAL.pdf	When you write about a particular method of printing it is a lot easier to do so once you know where it comes from. To write about its evolution from method to another I had to write about the history of 3D printing. This website was ever so useful because it had a timeline and everything.
Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching	Wikipedia is the most accessible source of information on anything which is why I turned to it for etching. Wikipedia has a wide source of information which you can’t find anywhere else and I used this website particularly when researching my techniques for my glossary.