The development of guidelines in printmaking

This paper reports a study which aimed to produce useful guidelines for producing artwork for printmaking artist. Employing the content analysis approach as the main research method, the study develops printmaking guidelines for artwork which consists of two critical components, namely definition and characters. The definition components is further broken down into “matrix”, “transferring” and “by product” while the character components are divided into “multiple”, “duplication” and “mass product”. The developed guidelines should be useful to not only contemporary printmaking artist but also higher learning institution and the general public.