Alternative Lithography

A printmaker's guide to working with foil, wood, lino, paper and polyester

Scarlett Rebecca

Alternative Lithography is a practical and beautiful guide to planographic printmaking techniques that depend upon the principle of water and grease repelling each other. Lithography traditionally used stone, but this book showcases the range of new techniques that are being developed with, for example, foil, wood and lino as a matrix. Showing how lithography can be affordable and accessible, it explains versatile and exciting processes that give artists an unparalleled range of tonality and mark making. Step-by-step sequences explain the process, examples show the types of marks that can be achieved and troubleshooting notes make this book a complete reference for all printmakers interested in exploring these new ideas for lithography.

ISBN: 9780719845017

Published: April 25, 2025

Format: Ebook

ISBN: 9780719845000

Width: 215mm

Height: 260mm

Pages: 192

Published: April 25, 2025

Format: Paperback

Scarlett Rebecca is a printmaker, specialising in stone and alternative lithographic processes. She works from her studio in north Wales, and teaches printmaking courses online and from workshops around the country.

Appropriately described as a ‘printmaker’s guide’, this book will appeal to both lithographers wanting to experiment with the use of alternatives to stone or metal plate, and to printmakers with no experience of lithography.

Serena Smith, Printmaking today Magazine
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