Multi-color Reduction Printmaking
Unit 8: Multi-color Printmaking
1. Research and Brainstorm!
Picasso and his development of the reduction process
Search for inspirations online
Brainstorm ideas for your print - thumbnail sketches
2. Take a photo of your face
Analysis of your face - seeing your face as a product of shadows and highlights
3. Draw an original graphic design that incorporates your face
Apply what you have learned about the Principles of Design:
- Balance
- Movement
- Variation
- Focal Point - Emphasis in the Rule of Thirds, etc....
4. Use markers to create a 3-color design with the shapes in your face
Transferring and Designing the final product onto a linoleum plate surface where it is carved in different color stages
5. Identifying the blacks and filling in the shapes with permanent black marker on the linoleum, and using water-based inks for the 2nd darkest color(these will wash off after printing.
6. Carving the whites - After Safety demonstration and Using the bench hooks to insure stability and safe carving away from your body.
7. Printing the lightest (#1) colors - Printing on at least 10 sheets of paper - at least 3 different LIGHT colors (yellows, beiges, lightest blues, etc...). NOTE: on the example above, the yellow was the lightest color, (#1) printed in the first "run" of prints.
8. Carving the light colors - The areas carved now will be the color (#1) of your lightest prints above. You will never print ink on that color in these areas again.
9. Printing the mid-light (#2) colors - Printing on at least 10 sheets of paper - at least 3 different "Mid-LIGHT" colors (darker yellows, darker beiges, light blues, etc...)Carving will expose that light color on each successive print. NOTE: on the example above, the olive yellow-green was (#2) printed in the second "run" of prints.
10. Carving the mid-light (#2) colors - The areas carved now will be the mid-light (#2) of your "Mid-LIGHT" prints above. You will never print ink on that color in these areas again. Carving will expose that mid-light (#2) color on each successive print.
11. Printing the dark(#3) colors - Printing on at least 10 sheets of paper - your darkest color, usually black. NOTE: on the example above, the black was (color #3) printed in the third "run" of prints.
(No more carving, unless you were days ahead of the rest of the class, and choosing to print 4 colors. In that case, you would not print black as your 3rd color. You would choose another dark color for 3rd run, then carve the locations of the 3rd dark color, before the final printing of black as your fourth run. )