a planographic printing technique using a thin fabric screen, tightened in a wooden stretcher. The technique takes its name from silk, the material originally used as a matrix. The first step involves defining the design of the print. Once defined, the weft of the fabric is blocked in the areas the ink is not supposed to go through—either using stencils, by applying a liquid with a squeegee, or though photomechanical techniques. The ink is then applied with a roller, passing it through the non-blocked areas and printing the image on the paper. Each colour requires a different screen. Although, as a technique, silk-screening was already used in ancient Eastern cultures, it was not until the 1960s that artists started to use it to create longer and more economical editions.

A relief printing technique that consists in carving an image onto the surface of a block of wood, usually with the aid of a gouge or burin. The areas of the block left at surface level are the ones carrying the ink that produces the image. There are two types of xylography: woodcut, in which the wood is cut along the length of the grain; and wood engraving, in which the wood is cut across the length of the grain. Xylography is the oldest printing technique in the West, going back to the thirteenth century.

an indirect techniqueof chalcographic engraving. The metal plate is first covered with a protective varnish, on which the engraver draws with an etching needle, ensuring that it touches the surface of the metal plate without producing any furrows. Once the drawing has been made on the varnished surface, the plate is submerged in a diluted acid bath which acts on the exposed metal parts from which the varnish has been removed by the etching needle. Once the lines have been etched, and the plate is taken out of the acid and the remaining varnish removed using a soft cloth and alcohol, it is ready to be inked up and pressed.

An indirect engraving technique to create areas with different tones. It is generally used in combination with other techniques like etching or . First of all, the plate is covered with resin; afterwards, the areas the artist does not want to be bitten by acid are covered, generally with varnish or lightbulb lacquer. This process is carried out progressively, depending on the desired tones: the areas which are to be dark will be exposed to the acid for longer. The plate is then submerged in a soft acid, that dissolves the surface in the uncovered areas; these steps are repeated as often as necessary until achieving the desired tones. Once this process is finalized, the plate is cleaned –with alcohol if the material used is resin or wax, with petrol if varnish was used and with acetone is lightbulb lacquer was used. The plate is then inked and the paper is prepared by submerging it in water before printing.

A technique in the visual arts consisting of gluing materials likes photographs, bits of wood, leather, newspapers and magazine clippings or other objects to a piece of paper, canvas, or other surface. Collage became widely popular in the early twentieth century thanks to Cubist painters, and it is still in use today as yet another artistic medium.

A technique in the visual arts consisting of gluing materials likes photographs, bits of wood, leather, newspapers and magazine clippings or other objects to a piece of paper, canvas, or other surface. Collage became widely popular in the early twentieth century thanks to Cubist painters, and it is still in use today as yet another artistic medium.