The basic drawing materials that we use from a historic standpointĪre things like lithopencils. Once the grease is pulled into the stone we can replace the drawing material with any colored greasy Talc, to help us through what we call an etch, or it's basically to establish the drawingĭown inside the stone. Stone with materials like gum arabic to establish the areas where water goes rosin and Once we've established aĭrawing, or grease, on the stone, we chemically treat the An artist will draw with a greasy material on a lithographic stone. Printing, is an intricate printmaking process that revolves around grease and water resisting one another. That can be achieved in the printing process, as well as a close-up look at prints themselves. The process of printing, and the details and subtlety Male: This introduction to lithography will show the artist's drawing process, materials that are used on drawing a lithographic stone,