Printmaking Project MP3

Printmaking

Lesson

Students will:

• Create a variety of prints using advanced printmaking techniques such as linocuts and foil prints.

• Use lino cutting tools safely and effectively.

• Know technical skills, vocabulary and knowledge necessary for creative and expressive production (related to printmaking)

• Design and create a linocut print and reproduce it at-least 3 times successfully.

Positive Space is the subject or areas of interest in an artwork, such as a person's face or figure in a portrait, the objects in a still life painting, or the trees in a landscape painting.

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Things to know...

Negative Space is the background or the area that surrounds the subject of the work.

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Things to know...

Multiple Choice

Positive Space is the...

• Area surrounding the main idea or subject matter in an artwork.

• Any area of your artwork with a +.

• Main idea or subject matter in an artwork.

• A very supportive and kind part of your artwork.

Multiple Choice

Negative Space is the...

• Area surrounding the main idea or subject matter in an artwork.

• Any area of your artwork with a -.

• Main idea or subject matter in an artwork.

• A very demeaning or angry part of your artwork.

The printing surface is cut away so that the image alone appears raised on the surface. The raised areas of the printing surface are inked and printed, while the areas that have been cut away do not pick up the ink.

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Relief Prints

​Ernst Ludwig KirchnerWoman Buttoning Her Shoe

(Frau, Schuh zuknöpfend)

(1912, published 1913)

What do you think you can do with the ability to print multiple artworks over and over again.

What power might that hold?

Printmaking has long been the vehicle to spread ideas, share messages, start a conversation, and effect change. Before the modern-day printer, printmaking was viewed (and still is) as an easy way to mass-produce an image and message. This fits hand-in-hand with art related to activism and propaganda because of the opportunity to bring awareness to many people.

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Barbara Jones-Hogu was one of the founding members of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) in Chicago during the 1960s. The group of artists was established to promote change and share voices through their artwork. While initially training in painting, her screenprints incorporating vivid color and text are some of her most notable works.

Elizabeth Catlett’s powerful work is well known. Her teachers encouraged her to find inspiration from what she knew. As the granddaughter of slaves who raised her, the themes of slavery, Black culture, and women are often depicted in her work.

Elizabeth Catlett

Benjie Torrado Cabrera is an artist from the Philippines who focuses his printmaking techniques on engraving. The process of scratching into the metal plates allows for great detail and depth to occur within the pieces. Cabrera’s work is often representative of the cosmos symbolizing the universe.

Benjie Torrado Cabrera

Favianna Rodriguez depicts migration, gender justice, climate change, and racial equity. Her uses bold colors and unique mark-making that draws the viewer in. Much of her early work explores a variety of printmaking processes from monotypes to relief printing.

Favianna Rodriguez

Open Ended

How have artists used printmaking for a greater purpose or to spread awareness.

When creating the design for your print, think of making a simple line drawing and then adding texture. To add texture you also use different length and types of lines.

Line/ Contour

Drawing

Printmaking

Lesson

Students will:

• Create a variety of prints using advanced printmaking techniques such as linocuts and foil prints.

• Use lino cutting tools safely and effectively.

• Know technical skills, vocabulary and knowledge necessary for creative and expressive production (related to printmaking)

• Design and create a linocut print and reproduce it at-least 3 times successfully.