Direct Drawing:



Ink up glass sheet with roller, place a sheet of paper carefully onto ink slab, then apply pressure with drawing tool (pencil etc.), upon the back of the paper. When drawing is complete, the paper is peeled back showing the drawing printed on the face of the paper.


Subtractive Drawing:



The subtractive drawing method operates in reverse to direct drawing. An ink slab is rolled up with ink and a drawing is made into the ink itself, with any drawing instrument or even a damp turps rag. Wiping and drawing back the white areas of the image. When the drawing is complete, a sheet of printing paper is laid onto the slab. A clean (burnishing) roller is then rolled over the top of the paper, forcing it onto the ink. The completed print will be seen as a negative, a white line (where the drawing was scribed into the ink) on a black background.


Additive Drawing:



Involves drawing directly with the printing ink. The ink is used almost as paint, thick like oil paints or thinned with turps and used in a wash form like water colour. A drawing is made with ink upon the glass/metal/plastic sheet, then a sheet of paper is laid over it and the clean roller is used on the back of the sheet.


Monotransfer:



This involves the selection of freshly printed photocopied images or newspapers as the raw materials. A turps-dampened cloth is wiped over the selected area and this is then placed face down upon the paper which is to accept the print, and its position held. With a pencil or burnishing tool, carefully burnish the back of the area selected. When this is completed peel back the turps dampened paper, and the surface of the photocopy print will have been transferred to the paper.