Paint and Printmaking as Drawing
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| painting/ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ | Making an image by applying paint to a surface, or the artwork produced by that process. |
| grisaille/ˈɡrɪseɪl/ | A monochrome or nearly monochrome painting that develops forms through tonal variation, commonly using greys. |
| monotype/ˈmɒnəʊtaɪp/ | A print made by transferring an image drawn or painted on a smooth plate, usually yielding one principal impression. |
| relief prints/rɪˈliːf prɪnts/ | Prints in which ink is transferred from raised areas of a printing surface. |
| intaglio/ɪnˈtæɡlɪəʊ/ | Printmaking in which ink held in recessed lines or areas of a plate is transferred to paper. |
Painting as drawing
- The Drawing portfolio welcomes painting 绘画 when mark-making and drawing skills lead.
- A monochrome grisaille 灰调单色画 is drawing with a brush: value, edge, and gesture.
- Watercolour over a drawn line keeps the drawing visible — line for structure, wash for light.
Drawing portfolio or 2-D portfolio?
Sort each work by which portfolio its visual language fits.
A single unrepeatable print pulled from paint on a plate is a ____.
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A monotype prints once.
Painting can belong in the Drawing portfolio if mark-making and drawing skills lead.
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Line, tone, and mark are the test.
Printmaking as mark-making
- A monotype 独幅版画 (paint on a plate, printed once) gives painterly, unrepeatable marks.
- Relief prints 凸版画 (linocut) and intaglio 凹版画 (drypoint, etching) build every value from cut or scratched lines.
- These are mark-making systems — exactly the first named drawing skill.
Rembrandt etching: printmaking as drawing— every value built from scratched lines
A monochrome value painting done with a brush is a ____.
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Grisaille is drawing with paint.
Which portfolio?
- Choose the process because it serves your inquiry — then say so in writing.
- If the work's language is line, tone, and mark, it belongs in Drawing.
- If it is colour-shape design, the 2-D portfolio may fit better.
Select all printmaking methods built from lines.
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Relief and intaglio build value from cut/scratched lines.
Match the print process to its family.
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Three printmaking families.
Painting and print are welcome, but a flat decorative colour design with no visible mark-making reads as 2-D work, not Drawing. Keep line, tone, and mark clearly leading if you submit it under Drawing.
A drypoint portrait: you scratch the plate exactly as you would hatch a drawing — direction, density, pressure all carry value. Printed, it is unmistakably a drawing made through a print process.
Painting (grisaille, watercolour over line) and printmaking (monotype, relief, intaglio) belong in Drawing when line, tone, and mark-making lead — choose the process for the idea, and name it in writing.
Write from a brush stroke that changes width
- A brush line is thin at the start and wide after 4 cm.
- It is still a drawing.
A brush mark starts thin and becomes wide over about 4 cm. Why can this still be called drawing?
A line does not have to be made with a pencil.
What is the changing brush mark?
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The path of the brush is the line. Its width is part of the mark. Other options — Not a drawing (because a brush was used); A mistake (because lines must stay the same width).