Types of traditional printmaking

According to the materials used, it can be divided into woodcut, lithograph, copperplate, screen print and so on.

According to color, it can be divided into: black and white printing, monochrome printing and color matching printing.

According to the production method: intaglio, relief, lithography, hole plate and comprehensive plate, etc.

A picture carved or etched on wood, stone, linen, copper and zinc plates with a knife or chemicals. In the west, the word printmaking has a broad sense and a narrow sense: in a broad sense, it refers to all paintings except large-scale paintings such as easel oil paintings and murals, such as watercolor paintings, gouache paintings, chalk paintings, sketches, illustrations, posters and cartoons. In a narrow sense, it refers to pictures printed by engraving. The word printmaking commonly used in China is mostly in a narrow sense.

There are many kinds of prints, but the most common ones are paper and woodcut, which are relatively easy to make. Woodcarving is the practice of drawing patterns on woodcuts with a carving knife, and then printing them with ink or pigment. Some patterns are like seals.

There are many kinds of cardboard, but the general method is the same, that is, making a mechanism board with paper, which can be cut and pasted, or carved with thick cardboard. In short, it is to leave the required traces on the paper, and then print them as pigments on the unified picture of the bottom plate, or print monochrome prints or multi-color prints.