Line drawings and Relief prints

The soft plate relief printing class available now. This low tech method is an easy way to make printing plate from bold line drawing.

soft foam relief printing plates

The idea is to make recessed lines in the plates. Ink sits on the high spots of the surface and the lines print in white.

soft relief plate for printmaking

You can use a variety of tools to make the lines in the soft foam plate:

  • pens and pencils
  • nails
  • embossing tools and
  • sturdy found objects like twigs

different styles of marks with soft foam relief plates

Different tools will create marks with different characteristic. Finding new mark making tools is part of the fun of this method of printmaking without a press.

different line characteristic foam printing plates

You can combine these small plate into prints of varying sizes. I like to make plates that can fit together like a puzzle.

foam plate relief print

If you are interested in learning to make and print with these foam plates, then join us in the online class, Soft Plate Relief Printing.