Drypoint Printmaking

This process involves scratcing marks into the surface of a printmaking plate. This usually can either be a piece of perspex, or type of metal.

You scrarch into this with a dypoint needle or anything that is sharp.

Ink is then pushed into these scrartches and then wiped from the surface of the plate leaving the ink only in the scratches.

The plate is then put through the printmaking press and the image is transferred from the plate onto the paper.

The following images were made during the 'Printamking on location" workshops I held in summer 2005.

Print by Colin Page