Some Celebrated Printmakers

Printmakers use color to their prints in many different options. Often color in printmaking that involves etching, screen printing, woodcut, or linocut will be applied by using separate plates, blocks or screens or by using a reductionist approach. In multiple plate color techniques, a bunch of plates, screens or chunks will be created, each giving a unique color.

Each separate plate, screen, or block would be inked up in a different color as well as implemented in a particular sequence to produce the whole image. Normally around three to four plates will be made, yet there are occasions in which a printmaker may use up to seven plates. Each use of a different plate of color will interact with the color already put on the paper, and this should be considered when creating the separation of colors. The lightest colors are often implemented first, after which darker colors successively until the darkest.

The reductionist approach to making color is to begin with a lino or wood block which is either empty or having a basic etching. After every printing of color, the printmaker will then further cut right into the lino or woodblock getting rid of more material and then implement a different color and reprint. Every successive elimination of lino or wood from the block is going to expose the already printed color to the observer of the print. Picasso is often cited as the developer of reduction printmaking, although there is evidence of this technique being used twenty-five years before Picasso's linocuts.

Valenti Angelo was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator as well as writer, born June 23, 1897 in Massarosa, Italy. He immigrated to the USA with his family in 1905, living initially in Ny and then settling in Antioch, California. At the age of nineteen, Angelo transferred to San Francisco, doing work by day as a labourer and spending his night time and weekends at libraries and museums. He soon evolved into a versatile artisan and a particularly skilled engraver and printer. Angelo's preferred medium was the linocut, and his prints showing urban nocturnes as well as desert scenes of the American Southwest are notably sought after by collectors and dealers. In 1926, Angelo made his very first book illustrations for the well-known, San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press. In a time period of thirty-four years, Angelo embellished and illustrated roughly 250 books. Among these were folio editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, and several books of the Holy Bible.

Sybil properly trained in England, and began producing and exhibiting linocuts from 1921 until 1939, working frequently with her informal partner Cyril Edward Power. She likewise helped in the establishment and became the first secretary of the The Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She worked as an oxyacetylene welder in an aircraft factory in World War I, where she helped in the creation of the very first all metal aeroplane for the Bristol Welding Company and in the shipyards of the Hampshire city of Southampton during World War II where she became acquainted with Walter Morgan. In England, one of the major collections in public ownership is held by St Edmundsbury Borough Council Heritage Service Bury St Edmunds. This collection includes a number of early water-colour paintings, executed even though the artist was still living in Suffolk.

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