Hybrid Prints

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Discover all the secrets of hybrid and combination techniques used in printmaking. Hybrid Prints reveals the secrets of hybrid and combination techniques used in printmaking. Combined techniques are often used by printmakers as innovative ways of achieving particular results, and then not fully acknowledged or detailed in the information that accompanies the print when it is exhibited. Combination printmaking has a long history, but the explosion of media now available to printmakers has opened up many new possibilities. Learning the techniques associated with creating hybrid prints is often a case of trial-and-error as most printmakers closely guard the secrets of how they make their unique prints. This book is a must-have for student and practising printmakers printmakers as it finally reveals and explains many secret methods and techniques.

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Black's excellent and developing series of Printmaking Hanbooks is producing some little gems...an invaluable guide to a difficult subjects. * Artbookreview.net (January 2010) *

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Megan Fishpool works at Artichoke Printmaking Studio in South London and is a visiting lecturer at a number of colleges. She exhibits her own prints widely in the UK and has been included in exhibitions in the USA and the Netherlands. She contributes to several publications including Printmaking Today, Art Business Today, Galleries Magazine and Art Review and is a long-standing co-ordinator for Originals, the annual Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition at the FBA Mall Galleries, London. She is also the co-author of The Printmakers' Bible. Originally born in the USA, Megan completed her MA in Printmaking at Chelsea College of Art.