Embossing printmaking

Blind embossing doesn’t need ink or special tools. The idea is to cut shapes out of cardboard or use some string or other found objects and make an imprint of their texture. There is something very fun and unique about a subtle shape embossed in a piece of paper.

Dry embossing, also known as relief embossing, is easy to do by hand using a stencil and a tracing tool. Learn how to dry emboss with this tutorial.

Belinda Glennon - ceramic artist from the Scottish Borders

My objective is to blind emboss a pair of my mother’s gloves, combined with chine colle digital images of the packaging and the label. I have found very little information on blind embossing,…

g u e s t b l o g 🌱Emily @thecuriousprintmaker is my kind of printmaker- she’s truly experimental and shares knowledge of these experiments from her own printmaking and that of her students. 🌱I was first introduced to the blog by the talented @sinclairashmanprintmaker when I was first shown collagraph printing, many years ago, spending time with dearest friends, working adjacent in our own creative worlds. You get to know someone in a new way when you take a workshop beside them, don’t…

I was out early on Sunday to head into the National Print Museum in Dublin in order to attend a printmaking workshop given by artist Elaine Leader. I signed up for this workshop because the technique of "Chine collé" was featured and I have been curious about this technique since I became aware of it about 20 years ago (I had never heard of it in printmaking classes I had in art school in Toronto). To start the day we were given some pieces of thin plastic (or thick acetate?) referred to as…

Kyla Cresswell is a New Zealand born artist printmaker working mainly in drypoint and mezzotint techniques.

These elegant plates have delicate and surprising surface textures, some similar to soft ground etchings, others producing effects like aquatint.

Intaglio printmaking is a printmaking method using marks incised into a plate. Ink is worked into the recesses of the plate and is usually printed onto dampened paper through an etching press. Intaglio printmaking can create strong positive marks, interesting texture and tone – these results shouldn’t be missed out on if you don’t have … Continue reading "Printing Intaglio Without a Press: Tetra Pak Collagraph"