At Home Printing

Learn how to make beautiful and unique prints at home with DIY materials, or learn how to get started with professional-quality relief printing. Teachers, students, and experienced printers alike can use this collection of instructional material to kick-start ideas and explore creative methods of printmaking!

A green, yellow, pink and black print of a doorway in the starry night with a full moon surrounded by geometric shapes and plants

Tools, Materials, and Alternatives

A diagram of at-home printing materials and their DIY alternatives

Save, print, or review our Tools, Materials and Alternative cheat sheet to kickstart your journey to accessible printmaking.

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Where to start?

Take GAP’s At-Home Printing Quiz to find out where a good place to start might be for you or your students.

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Styrofoam Relief Prints
Styrofoam Relief Prints

A quick and easy way to make relief prints - great for folks who are new to printing and want to make professional-looking prints at home!

Tabletop Monotypes
Tabletop Monotypes

Get creative with a freestyle printing technique that will allow you to unleash your creativity!

Shaving Cream Monotypes
Shaving Cream Monotypes

You can be messy &wild with Shaving CreamMonotypes! Make fun & spontaneous prints or decorative paper with this printing method.

Reductive Lino
Reductive Lino

For experienced printers, try a new way of creating multi-coloured prints that will challenge and delight you!

Chine-collé
Chine-collé

Make bold additions to your printwork with this technique. Be colourful or subtle, and anything but boring!

Recycled Lino Stamps
Recycled Lino Stamps

Looking to experiment without breaking the bank? Try creatinginfinitely reusable stamps by recycling your old lino blocks.

Dry-Point Recycled Intaglio
Dry-Point Recycled Intaglio

For those who love to get detailed with their artwork but who also love the freedom of an inexpensive medium, try Dry-Point Recycled Intaglio!

Acetate Monotype
Acetate Monotype

If you’re a new printer who has even a tiny bit of painting experience, you’ll love the freedomof Acetate Monotypes. The printing world is your oyster with this method!

Collagraph
Collagraph

Get crafty withCollagraphs! For an imaginative printer like yourself, the possibilities are endless with this technique.

Subtractive Collagraph
Subtractive Collagraph

Try an exercise in skill and ingenuity with Subtractive Collagraphs and create masterpieces with house-hold items.