Calgary Art Galleries - Webster Art Galleries

ETCHING
Etching is a form of intaglio printing, where a metal plate is etched in acid, cleaned, inked and printed on paper.

GICLEE
A digital image scanned at a high resolution and printed by an Iris printer onto canvas or paper.

LIMITED EDITION
A specific number of prints, mechanically printed then signed and numbered by the artist.

LINO BLOCK
A relief print made from a block of linoleum of either single or multiple colours.

SERIGRAPH
A stencil process where by ink is squeegied through a prepared nylon screen, depositing the ink on paper, with the ability to accommodate several colours.

LITHOGRAPH
Based on the relationship between oil and water, an image is rendered on a flat clean stone which is treated chemically, made wet, inked and put through a litho press.

WOODCUT
Both the name for a printing process and the resulting print, a relief print made from a block or blocks of wood.

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Mewa Armata Germaine Arnaktauyok Carole Bondaroff Hyun-jeong Bok	Jonathon Bowser John Bristow Norman Brown A.J. Casson	Louise Dandurand Mark Farand Bruce Herchenrader	J. Thomas Hinton Mark Lubicz Tony Mascardelli	Gordon Schuck Kathy Thomson Roy Tomlinson