Printmaking Unleashed: More Than 50 Techniques for Expressive Mark Making

by Traci Bautista

Unleash your inner artist and join Traci Bautista as she shares inventive ideas for making marks with handmade tools, nontraditional materials and simple DIY printmaking techniques. Pulsing with exploration and whimsy, Printmaking Unleashed features 60+ step-by-step demonstrations and countless possibilities for creating original prints, fabrics, art journal pages, mixed-media collage, and so much more.WHAT'S INSIDE...   • Tools Galore! Create a variety of handmade mark-making tools and texture plates using everything from encaustic paints, Collage Pauge and chipboard letters to modeling compound, needlepoint canvas and recycled cardboard.   • Mix-and-Match Techniques! Discover digital and traditional techniques for producing one-of-a-kind monoprints. Start with the basics, then build up layer after luscious layer of color and texture.   • Pure inspiration! Every page offers new ideas, original artwork and creative jumpstarts. Flip through the pages and learn how anything with interesting texture or shape (rubber bands, vintage lace, the bottom of a bottle) can be incorporated into printmaking for exciting, unique effects. You will never look at a toothpick, freezer bag or plastic zip tie in the same way again!

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Crafts

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 11, 2014

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok look at many different ways to make stencils, stamps, and other mark making tools. I found the instructions to be confusing frequently, with too many references to self-branded products.

[Vivian Wiltshire · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have rediscovered my love of gel printing since spending more time in my craft room because of the pandemic so I thought this book would be helpful, but I found it boring and the prints in it not at all what I like. To be honest the prints I have made so far myself have been better. The only reason I give it 2 stars is because it did give a few ideas for different things to use in gel printing otherwise a pretty bland book.

[Ahmed K-masterly {Cruel Sanity} · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really love that I'm crafty but I need time for those techniques.

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice primer if you're new to printmaking, also a decent refresher if you aren't

[Luc · Rating 1 out of 5]

The look and layout of the book is haphazard and messy. Bautista talks about her messy studio in the book and perhaps this was a way of demonstrating her style? The instructions lack detail.The exercises produce muddy results. Often I liked the prints when they were fewer steps in to the process, and the design was still discernible.
And why does the author or publisher feel the need to include the author's website on nearly every page?
I wanted to better understand the how-tos of printmaking but I'm left with only more questions. More specifics would have been appreciated.

[Geoffreyjen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wide variety of print making techniques for fabrics... Very useful as source of inspiration and know-how.

[Ruth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent ideas, but some of the materials are unfamiliar to me.

[Margot Krekeler · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very broad range of very new and interesting and nontraditional ways to prepare and do printing on various materials. It's all about finding new approaches. I found the step-by-step instructions not always completely understandable, but discovered that I easily understand them as soon as I start to use them in one of my projects.