The Idea of Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making any art printed of regular paper. This technique is important because it has a individual creativity to it instead of using photography for painting. Printmaking was originally created in China around AD 105. Towards the 15th century Relief printing came around. For 500 years printmaking has evolved in many ways. These different techniques with printmaking has been used by plenty of well-known artist such as Janet Fish and Walton Ford.This is the “Sharecropper” which was sculpted by Elizabeth Catlett who known from this type of work. This relief print drawing caught my eye because I have seen it before. Yet I admire how Catlett put plenty of detail of the bone structure of the the woman.