Printmaking
Printmaking
As with each Center, students choose the media they want to explore and the subject matter for their art. The Printmaking Center media consists of:
stencils, textures, sponges, printing papers, printing inks, brayers, watercolor paints and crayons, plexiglass, cardboard, linoleum, linoleum cutting tools, styrofoam, sandpaper, ink pads and crayons.
Different techniques include:
Monoprinting, Relief printing, Stamping, Linoleum printing, using a printing press, signing, numbering and titling prints
As always, students are encouraged to challenge themselves by doing something new and/or different from what they have done in the past. Students choose the subject of their art and the media they want to explore. Students write an Artist Statement about their art by giving it a title, description and reason for creating it. They also write a Reflection about it.
Types of Printmaking the students are exposed to are:
Monoprinting through ink and a palette knife, Watercolor Crayons, and Watercolors on plexiglass, Relief printing through Collagraphs, Cardboard, Glue, Linoleum, Stamping, marker prints on styrofoam and crayons on Sandpaper.
As with each Center, students are encouraged to challenge themselves by trying something new/different. Students also write about the Thinking and Learning behind their art using Artist Statements and Progress Reports.
Printmaking Mini-lessons include:
Introduction to different types of Printmaking like Relief printing and Monoprinting, blotting the paper to print, carving using Linoleum cutting tools, printing using the printing press, printing without the printing press, signing, numbering and titling their prints, creating an Edition of prints.
