Printmaking Part 1
Have you ever come up with a fantastic drawing? Have you wanted to make more than one? The printmaking studio might just be the right studio for YOU!
The idea of printmaking is to make more than ONE...otherwise another studio might be a better option.
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, typically on paper. Printmaking most often covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.
The idea of printmaking is to make more than ONE...otherwise another studio might be a better option.
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, typically on paper. Printmaking most often covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.
(*credit Juli Toole)
In the printmaking studio, you can make;
MONO PRINTS - one single print
or
EDITION- a series of identical images.
There are several choices you have in the printing making studio. Today we will start with some simple printmaking techniques and get more advanced in the next class.
Our printmaking studio is table 6 and it's yellow.
Instructions are posted and you will notice they are very similar to painting set up and clean up
Printmaking supplies are on the yellow shelf. You may use the supplies I have shown.
Here are instructions for printmaking. We will start with patterned roller printmaking.
*Rinse
How to STRETCH your printmaking
Print several prints on one piece of paper
Print papers to use in collage
color directly onto a dry print.
MONO PRINTS - one single print
or
EDITION- a series of identical images.
There are several choices you have in the printing making studio. Today we will start with some simple printmaking techniques and get more advanced in the next class.
Our printmaking studio is table 6 and it's yellow.
Instructions are posted and you will notice they are very similar to painting set up and clean up
Name
*Notice the placemat on the table.
What can you do with printed paper? Take it to drawing, collage, painting? Build a structure?
*Do you see the pattern printed paper?
A painting with the blue dots as an ocean background.
Make a frame around a drawing or collage.
*How many studios did this artwork visit? *Do you see a printed border/frame? I could have used crayon, color pencil or marker for the sky but printmaking created pattern and more WOW!
Clean up
*Dry
Put materials back where you got them out.
How to STRETCH your printmaking
Print a border around a drawing
Print several prints on one piece of paper
Printmaking Part 2
Gelli Prints
(Anne Bedrick)
Gelli Monoprint
Ghost Print - second print off the original
Clean Up
rinse clean
Return paint, placemat
art goes on the drying rack
Printmaking Part 3
Name
*letters, words and numbers are permission only
try a variety of lines-- thick, thin, long, short, dotted, dashed.
press a dull pencil into the foam to make your printing plate. Remember "beautiful oops", you are a smart artist, if you make a mistake you will have to turn it into something you want because you won't be able to erase. 
roll ink until you hear a sticky sound
smooth with your hand -- no punching or pounding
Name
try a variety of lines-- thick, thin, long, short, dotted, dashed.
smooth with your hand -- no punching or pounding
Peel a corner of the paper to see if you need to rub and smooth with more pressure. Your first print may not be your best. You may notice you need more or less ink. more pressure.
Repeat. The idea is to make more than one
Rinse all tools including your printing plate
