How to make a lithographic print | National Museums Liverpool

Lithography is a printing process based on the fact that grease and water don’t mix. A greasy material, such as a special crayon, is used to draw an image onto a surface (traditionally stone but sometimes metal).
When a roller loaded with oil-based ink is rolled over the stone or plate, the ink is repelled by the wet surface and instead, sticks to areas drawn over with the greasy drawing tool. Once this surface is printed onto paper it creates the image in ink.
Watch Lithography Printer and Tutor Nora Hammenberg, Stone Tree Press, show you how to create lithographic prints in this step-by-step guide.

[@COMB0RICO]

Only video online that I could find. Thank you from Texas!

[@KatsMeyow]

Thank you for this. It helped to make sense of the whole process and really shows the amount of work that goes into this style of printmaking.

[@bharatbshetty]

Exactly

[@saratea]

This is one of the best descriptions I’ve heard thank you

[@GregoryHawkins-d2p]

You speak excellent English. Thank you for teaching us with your video.

[@alexanderliv2win4everhende79]

Way cool! Thank you for your time. Seriously I've seen prints on stones before, but til today I never had a clue what it was called or how it was done.. Sure is alot of work!!

[@irie101]

who the hell came up with this

[@hand587]

Alois Senefelder. He was a German actor who invented the technique initially to print musical scores in the 1790s.

[@maximhebert-gareau4461]

Yeah right

[@TheJpep2424]

Someone over 200 years ago.

[@RhyzRides]

Frrrrrrr

[@83abhinavnigam]

Even actors used to be genius back then 😂😂😂😂

[@csyoung82]

Many thanks for producing this video! I had only a vague idea of this process so this video is extremely eye opening! I’m reading a book about Alphonse Mucha and appreciate his artistry and skill even more after seeing this. I imagine color lithography is even more complex?

[@Red_Rebel]

I wished this was made during my first few years of art school

[@hibarizvi9171]

I feel lucky..

[@JohnSmith-ef2rn]

Great video, well explained and demonstrated. Thank you.

[@DavidBrocekArt]

Me: "Wow, I wanna do lithography at home! Like in the good old day." Also me after watching the video: "aaaalright, so click on photoshop... print..."

[@TheMadisonHang]

Wow very very specific I wonder how they found these things out

[@jordan.newsom]

So interesting! Great video.

[@justinaprima9495]

Hogarth is my favorite lithograph artist!

[@sclogse1]

I'm interested in how old photos were turned into line lithos for books.

[@j.ballsdeep420]

Are you sure you're referring to real photos and not just well depicted illustrations?

[@peterbonucci9661]

It's called chromolithography. It produced *amazing* prints.

[@maia3117]

how this seems like so much effort as a designer I'm so glad we have computers now

[@robertloader9826]

It's worth it.

[@MeanderingSlacker]

@@robertloader9826Is it? Art is subject, subject, subject, then subject, then presentation. If it is worth it, the worth comes from the mind of a person crazy or dedicated enough to go through the rigamarole, not the actual thing. If they’re crazy with that regard, they’re probably crazy and anal about everything else in their piece. In terms of the historical era and their greatness, that’s just the blend of pre camera schooled classicalist artists suddenly having a camera and other wildly available reference images like other lithographs in print house.

[@TheJpep2424]

@Meanderin to some people yes it's worth it. Do you get to decide if it's worth it for all people? What people enjoy is none of your business. It's a process that's existed for over 200 years and many people enjoy the process. So yes, it's worth it to them.

[@MeanderingSlacker]

@@TheJpep2424 I mean things are always worth it like making sand castles on the beach as the waves crash,but from making a product for customers and living as an artist, that’s where the worth starts to be in question. The value and workmanship isn’t as apparent to the novice as an oil painting or marble statue, the buyer has to learn about the lithograph process to see the technical value like that. Then I said, the customer is going is buy the piece based on the subject no matter the art process. Like you can carve an amazing statue of Jesus, but if someone doesn’t want a statue of Jesus in their house, they’re not going to buy it.

[@jcosk8]

@@MeanderingSlacker Main point you're missing is that the artist isn't really involved in the tedious process. Or do you, as a designer, need to be at the printers for every project? You need to know how it works and what options are at your disposal to create the work accordingly or push the limits of the technique, be it a lithograph or any other printing method. This woman works in a printing place with artists, she is not the artist.

[@alexateodor]

Wow, huge effort, but the results are So cool

[@snowrain4127]

Amazing work, so talented . It's magnificent ❤ thank you

[@OddClarity]

So cool thanks for making this video! *thumbs up* indeed

[@Timrathmore]

Very well done

[@seanmcguire7974]

Awesome. So the acid burns everything in the background but the drawing, or the other way around? Does it lower the level slightly so the ink fills in? So many questions?

[@jcosk8]

It is funnily enough a terrible video that doesn't actually explain the process properly. That's not her job of course

[@sdpavo]

Just to clarify, she is not using a traditional leather roller though she talks about one in the video. They are hand-sewn on wooden handles. She is using a rubber one that is normally used with color inks. You can look up the differences online with photos.

[@dtrain5519]

So a lithograph is with a stone and an etching is with a plate? Thanks! 😃

[@CCHVBFF]

Thank you that was super informative! Just the video I was looking for!

[@aascbeshowroom6190]

very nice explanations . Thankyou.

[@rizkidhifan3704]

How does those old litography prints have so many colors on them? It looks painted! When is the additional colors are added?

[@dano7189]

Rembrandt did these. I assume that he did them after he was established and he had someone else doing the laborious steps and he did the drawing....

[@pocobelli]

Super helpful and clear. Thanks.

[@sarahviii]

Question: What do you do to the stone after you're done printing the image?

[@221b-Maker-Street]

@RAST I assumed the OP meant, when you've pulled your final print - _then_ what happens to the stone? Or maybe she didn't...

[@msmie2102]

Stones can have the top most layer ground off using grit and a levigator! Then you can draw a new image on it and do a new print run. Alternatively, the stine with an image can be sealed for storage (protects the image) and reopened at a later time to print another run of that image

[@dcarbs2979]

It just stays there as a relic until (if) you want to use it again.

[@tinashina8425]

THANK YOU

[@dishakhayadav5721]

Can we do first etch just after the drawing gets finished? Or the stone should be left for some hours?

[@panda.tlea063]

This always blows my mind! Leave it to a debt ridden playwrite to figure out how to print his own stuff😂

[@2222222aaa]

So, an easy process?

[@houstonpromotion]

Just by her accent I can tell she knows what she’s doing and that she’s good at it to

[@kyler.kinsey1188]

I’m gonna get her to make me a perfect replica of the T206 Honus Wagner card hehe

[@Eric-bp3tc]

Too much work I'll stick to crayons thanks

[@jonwcs5842]

This is how movie posters were made in the 1920s?

[@zombiegermz6940]

the game of life brought me here

[@noobyplays7679]

Damn that's a long process

[@PaulfromChicago]

Liverpool, Liverpool. Liverpool Liverpool. Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool

[@Chelseyaaaaa]

😊

[@sbenjapong]

🤔👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@thereallannis]

That’s a lot lol

[@ryushogun9890]

These modernists are everywhere, I'm done with it.

[@j.ballsdeep420]

😅

[@Tubeytime]

What an unreasonably specific gripe!

[@ryushogun9890]

​@@Tubeytime ah ok, thought it was another comment section. Well, 仕方ないですね。

[@ryushogun9890]

​@@Tubeytime But anyway, if you're not happy about listening to such a opinion, since most people are modernists you're not just disagreeing with me, you are in love with the world as it is (assuming only). In a way, happy for it if that is the case since not many people are happy, so we are two minorities, yours at least in a good way. The other way around, you are then not happy or not much at least, but also not willing to discuss without tagging (with this unreasonably thing), just because It was something going the contrary direction. Thank you for letting me practice writing with you.

[@Tubeytime]

@@ryushogun9890 No problem!

[@dlambert6139]

I’m sorry but this video is not as clear as it could be. It’s like reading about lithography with photos. Instead, it should have been more stepwise narration at the time of the work itself. Too much talking and not enough showing! It’s like a half-recipe - talking about baking a cake instead of showing the process in enough detail to bring out the subtle points. The video probably is better than just reading about it. Lacking something more detailed, probably have to observe the process in person.

[@alanharris7878]

I mean I don’t think English is her first language. She explained it pretty well

[@cliffdariff74]

The nose ring does not compliment...

[@Tubeytime]

dang, sorry you were distracted bro.

[@moonsmilk333]

I have one just to deter people like you from speaking to me :D

[@amstrad79b]

I wish the video had a normal woman describing the process, her cow ring is so disturbing! She could at least remove it. She seems fine without it.

[@moonsmilk333]

god forbid people express themselves

[@amstrad79b]

@@moonsmilk333 being a cow is expressing?

[@moonsmilk333]

@ yes

[@moonsmilk333]

@ septum piercings signify belonging to an alternative subculture, and people who don't mind expressing themselves bother people (like you perhaps) that are too scared to express themselves. live a little, try some piercings, have fun, yolo, and be nice to others, we are all human.

[@ΔεαΚ]

This weird lady doesnt explain things clearly.. how does that stone retain those marks which were used by merely sketching on the stone?

[@tteaminn]

did u even pay attention