Jane Hammond
The artist's unique works on paper begin with stacks of various cutouts, Xeroxes and stampings from which she chooses appealing images to start gluing and layering. As she works, all the seemingly dissimilar elements begin to trigger associations with other images or ideas for the artist, which she continues to develop using the transfers, prints, paint and ink.
Essential Questions
- Why would an artist want to create art using antiquated materials?
- What is similar and different about old and new relief printed art?
- What happens to a graphic image when distressed materials are used as a print base?
Relief Printing 
A method that exploits the surface characteristics of any material. It is the most direct form of print making. It is not even necessary to have a press. The image can be built up using a wide variety of objects pasted onto a board in low relief, the surface of which is inked. A print is taken by placing the paper on top and either rubbing the back or by running through a press.
Collograph
A print made from an image built up with glue and sometimes other materials. The inked image is transferred from plate to paper and is simultaneously embossed. The name derives from "collage."
Dry Point Etching
Is an engraving with an etching needle upon a plate without the use of any acid. In dry-point the etcher commences at once upon the bare plate without any ground. In drawing the design the needle tears up the plate and leaves what is known as a burr- a ridge of copper on either side of the furrow. It is this burr which gives the quality to dry-point etchings when they are printed.
Linocut
A print taken from a block of linoleum cut in the same way as a woodcut, using a knife or gouge to remove the uninked areas. The printed surface has less texture than a woodcut because of the homogenous nature of the linoleum.
Monoprint
The Monoprint combines elements of etching and monotype. The artist creates an etching which then becomes a duplicatable "base" for individually colored monotype versions.
Woodcut
A relief print taken from a block of wood, often pine, where the areas which are to remain uninked are cut away from the image using a sharp knife or gouge. The natural grain of the wood is often enhanced by rubbing stiffly with a wire brush.
Wood engraving
The end grain of a block of wood is used and the image is produced by cutting out fine lines from the surface of the block. When inked, and a print taken, the lines appear as white areas describing the image.
 MOMA Printmaking Demo
Relief Printmaking Terms
Relief printing process Flash presentation from Women Printmakers of Austin
Monotypes
Making the block
Printing manipulations
Print variations for refief printing
Registration of the print
The monoprint class assignment
Reduction block class assignment
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