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World History

The Strenuous Task of Mezzotints

Two color-printed Mezzotints from  Johann Weinmann’s “Floral Studies” c.1736.   The method of mezzotint was invented in the mid 17th century. Ludwig von Siegen was credited to be the original mezzotint printmaker, though he did not use the proper tool, known as…

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Chippewa Chief, the Berry Picker - portrait by James Otto Lewis, Native American, business art

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Indian Portraits and the Smithsonian Fire of 1865

[NOTE: The vernacular of the time included the use of the word “Indian” to represent the indigenous people of the North American continent. Most of the individuals named in this article held a deep reverence for indigenous cultures, including a…

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Master Penman Jake Weidmann

Jake Weidmann is the youngest “Master Penman” in the United States by three generations. His work shows an attention to minute detail that only comes through years and years of practice. His finished pieces — which fuse calligraphy and fine...
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How Did Hokusai Create The Great Wave?

rom Christie’s: Japanese artist TakujiHamanaka takes us inside his Brooklyn studio to explain why he adopted a centuries-old technique to create contemporary woodblock prints.Although two centuries separate Hamanaka from Hokusai, the contemporary artist’s printmaking has been shaped by the same...
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Japanese woodblock printing

From Royal Academy of Arts: Rebecca Salter RA studied traditional woodblock printmaking during the six years she spent living in Japan. For the RA Summer Exhibition 2016, she commissioned the Sato Woodblock Workshop in Kyoto to produce two limited-edition prints...
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Stone Lithography at Edinburg Printmakers

Stone Lithography demonstrated by Alastair Clark, Assistant Director at Edinburgh Printmakers Lithography works on the principle that grease and water repel each other. In Stone Lithography, images are drawn and printed directly on blocks of limestone. Working directly on the...
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Print Making: etching

From the British Museum: MA student of Printmaking Peter Wylie demonstrates the traditional techniques of etching, using acid, smoke, rosin, plate, and stylus. The process has been used by artists from Rembrandt and Goya to the present. This brief video...
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From Paper to Copper: The Engraver’s Process

A demonstration by Andrew Stein Raftery, Associate Professor of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design. Watch the very methodical and detailed work that goes into turning a piece of art into an engraving for reproduction. Hint: this takes a whole...
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New Digital Maps vs. Old Paper Maps

PBS NewsHour. Human error in old mapping compared to modern usage of GPS and digitized maps through crowdsourcing. It used to take decades or hundreds of years to make map edits due to travel limitations. Now it takes just a…

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