How to Use printmaking in a Sentence

printmaking

noun
  • Based in Rochester, N.Y., Lee expected to spend most of the month in this printmaking shop.
    Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • Makamo is most known for his printmaking work at David Krut Print Studio in 2006.
    Nandi Howard, Essence, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Normington’s background is in printmaking, and much of her work is done in black and white.
    Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur, NOLA.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • It’s about paper and printmaking, an homage to a medium.
    Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Studio is open to painters of any medium (the printmaking studio is not open).
    Sarah Bonnette, nola.com, 19 June 2019
  • As for the lint, this powerful tool for printmaking also proves elusive in many ways.
    Jori Finkel, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Soon Dwyer had Pfeil trying his hand at printmaking and etching and painting and writing haikus.
    Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2018
  • NFTs are not a new artistic medium in the way that oil paint, printmaking, photography or video art were.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The results of that intense burst of printmaking—and her work in the medium since—are now on glorious display at Print Center New York.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The process of printmaking puts the emphasis on precision.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 24 July 2017
  • The stenciling reminds him of pochoir, a French form of printmaking used by Picasso and other fine artists.
    Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The 1971 lithograph was his first venture into printmaking after years of working as a painter.
    Richard Chang, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • There are 12 teachers lined up to teach classes such as printmaking, mixed media collages and pop-up book making.
    Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019
  • Noah’s training is in printmaking and painting, the announcement says.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • That Banksy’s works hold so much value in the art world, many of which are created through a medium of mass production, printmaking, is entirely the point.
    Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Reames grew up in Dallas and found his path to art by way of music and printmaking, the latter of which is the concentration for his bachelor of fine arts degree.
    Christopher Mosley, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Mixografia is a printmaking technique that allows the viewer to see brushstrokes.
    Richard Chang, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • The dream-like lithograph by Carlos Schwabe, commissioned to promote the first Salon, is a highlight of fin-de-siécle printmaking.
    James Panero, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Amy Nack, owner of Wingtip Press, a printmaking and visual art studio and workshop in Boise, shares a similar logic.
    Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 1 May 2017
  • Join Xico for an open studio printmaking event on July 11.
    Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2021
  • Alison Moyet, the chart-topping British singer and Yazoo co-founder, can add a fine art printmaking degree to her lengthy list of accomplishments.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 July 2023
  • The space will soon hold silkscreen and printmaking equipment, along with computers for digital design.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In the past, Fabula has done printmaking including etchings and linocuts.
    Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2024
  • The new arts center will have studios for printmaking, ceramics, painting, metalsmithing, and other art forms that let adults and kids alike get messy and create.
    Outside Online, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Remba and his shop accepted the challenge, and actually created a brand new printmaking process for the aging artist, who was in his 70s.
    Richard Chang, Daily Pilot, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Studio artists working in paint, printmaking, paper, pastels, textiles, glass, wood and more.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
  • In fact, the exhibition is set up as a virtual printmaking workshop with a large silkscreen set up on a tabletop, and with printer’s smocks hanging nearby.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 June 2022
  • Knowledge spread rapidly during the Renaissance, thanks, above all, to printmaking.
    Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Hughes spoke with me over the weekend about her new relationship to the printmaking process, and why an artist would choose to make a magnificent painting and then transfer it, backward, to a piece of paper.
    Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Gel plate printing is a monotype printing technique, combining the spontaneity of drawing and printmaking to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces of art.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2024

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