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Through a robust
studio-based art curriculum,
students in Mill Valley
School District have
opportunities to explore a
variety of art media at every
grade level.
Painting
Mixed Media/Collage
Drawing
Printmaking
Printmaking Overview
Key Vocabulary
Guiding Questions
Big Ideas
Printmaking
Resources
Related Museum Exhibits,
Websites, Books, Images,
Videos, Music
Understandings
By Grade Level
Connections
Artists Studied, Childrens
Literature, Cultural,
Historical, Cross-Cultural
Project Examples
Printmaking Vocabulary
ink, plate, brayer (roller), baren, needle, positive and negative image, mirror image, stamp,
rubbing, monoprint, monotype, relief print, sponge print, transfer print, intaglio, multiple
reduction, drypoint, etching, edition, carving, stencil, masking, collagraph, styrene plate,
multiple printing, registration, signing
Printmakers may use tools and materials, such as plates, brayers, inks, graphite,
burnishers, paper, stamps, oil pastels, graphite sticks.
Printmakers make a plate from which to make prints.
Plates may be made in many ways:
o Painting on sponges or masonite boards
o Carving into a surface, such as styrene, soft-cut, plexiglass
o Making a collage of different textures
Printmakers make different kinds of prints using different processes:
Transfer prints, monoprints, monotypes, etchings, rubbings, collagraphs,
stamps, relief prints, intaglio, drypoint
Printmaking Resources
www.washingtonprintmakers.com
http://www.saltgrassprintmakers.org/
http://www.tomkillion.com/
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuit-printmaking/
http://www.crownpoint.com/page/printmaking
Printmaking Connections
John James Audubon
Marc Chagall
Salvador Dali
Albrecht Durer
Helen Frank
Helen Frederick
David Hockney
Katsushika Hokusai
Keith Haring
Lois Johnson
Tom Killion
Kathe Kollwitz
Roy Lichtenstein
Rene Magritte
Henri Matisse
Amedeo Modigliani
Mick Moon
Henry Moore
Rembrandt
Miriam Shapiro
Andy Warhol
Endangered species
State birds and animals
Inuit culture
Kindergarten Students
Create an original work of art emphasizing rhythm and movement, using a selected printing
process (e.g. monotype)
Create personally satisfying prints using a variety of printing processes and materials
Elaborate on an imaginative idea for creating a print
Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas
through printmaking
Elaborate visual information by adding details in a print to enhance emerging meaning
Reflect on and explain important information about a personal print in an artist statement or
another format
Transitional Kindergarten
Exploring with Ink
to Make a Print
Kindergarten
Transfer Prints
Second Grade
Styrene Multiple Prints
Fourth Grade
Facial/Figure Monotypes
Sixth Grade
John James Audubon
Bird Relief Prints
First Grade
Texture Rubbings
Third Grade
Collagraphs
Printmaking Projects
By
Grade Level
Fifth Grade
Etching:
Carving Into a Plexiglass Plate
Seventh Grade
Relief Prints: Hand-cut Rubber
on Wood Cubes
Eighth Grade
Surreal Etchings
Connections
Children's books illustrated by
Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Resources
http://artfulparent.com/printmak
ing-ideas-kids
Assessment
- Teacher uses an in-process
assessment of student using a
variety of material to ink and
stamp to make a print.
Kindergarten Project
Transfer Prints
Goals/Key Understandings
Motivating Questions
Create a transfer print:
Ink a masonite board, place
paper down and make a
drawing, "pull" the print/paper,
and discover the print as a
mirror image
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Assessment
Connections
Artists - Marc Chagall, Henry
Moore
Resources
Create prints inspired by Kim
Solga
- In-process student/teacher
reflection: Did the student go
through the process of making a
transfer print: use a brayer to
cover a masonite board with ink,
place paper over top, make a
drawing of
family/neighborhood, and pull
the print?
Motivating Questions
What is texture? What objects
can be used to create a
successful texture rubbing?
How can rubbings be used to
make an interesting work of
art?
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Engage and Persist
Assessment
Connections
Artists - Eric Carle, Leo Lionni,
Ezra Jack Keats
Resources
http://www.britannica.com/art
/rubbing
- In-process student/teacher
reflection: Did the student
understand what surfaces
would be printable? Did the
student use the tools/materials
successfully?
Goals/Key Understandings
Create a drawing, transfer it to
a styrene plate, ink the plate
multiple times with a brayer
and ink, and print
Motivating Questions
Visual Arts Standards
How do artists make a print
using a styrene plate? What is a
plate in printmaking? How does
an artist transfer a drawing to a
plate?
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Engage and Persist
Connections
Inuit Culture
Conversations with a Native
American Artist
by Patrick DesJarlait
Resources
http://www.crownpoint.com/p
age/printmaking
http://www.thecanadianencycl
opedia.ca/en/article/inuit-print
making/
Assessment
- In-process student/teacher
reflection: Teacher-led group
reflection on printmaking
process
Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Reflect
Assessment
Connections
Resources
www.washingtonprintmakers.c
om
- In-process student/teacher
reflection: Peer discussion
about steps in making the
collagraph
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Envision
Observe
Assessment
Connections
Resources
Artists - Keith Haring,
Henri Matisse, Amedeo
Modigliani, Pablo Picasso,
Miriam Shapiro
http://www.monoprints.com/h
istory.php
- In-process student/teacher
reflection: Student
self-assessment of facial
proportion and steps of relief
printing
Goals/Key Understandings
Create an intaglio print using
plexiglass plate
Motivating Questions
How does an artist create an
intaglio print? What tools and
processes does an artist use?
Key Vocabulary
iIntaglio, dry point, plexiglass
plate, etching needle, wipe out
a plate with cheesecloth, hand
colored print
Connections
Artists - Albrecht Durer, Helen
Frank, David Hockney, Lois
Johnson, Kathe Kollwitz,
Rembrandt,
Resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
ntaglio_(printmaking)
http://www.moma.org/collecti
on/artists/2678?locale=en
Assessment
- Peer discussion about tools
and process using printmaking
vocabulary
Goals/Key Understandings
Motivating Questions
- Create a relief print of a bird
inspired by the work of John
James Audubon
- Develop a clear understanding
of the steps needed to plan a
successful relief, registered
print
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Envision
Engage and Persist
Stretch and Explore
Understand Art World
Resources
Connections
John James Audubon's Birds of
America
Artists - Katsushika Hokusai,
Tom Killion
https://www.audubon.org/birds-ofamerica
http://www.biography.com/people/
john-james-audubon-9192248
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/american
masters/john-james-audubon-draw
n-from-nature/106/
http://www.nyhistory.org/explore/j
ohn-james-audubon
http://www.tomkillion.com/
Assessment
- Rubric based on research,
composition, printmaking skills,
creativity and risk-taking,
craftsmanship, and Studio
Habits of Mind
Motivating Questions
Which elements/principles of
art does an artist when using a
rubber stamp as a multiple
printing block?
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Envision
Stretch and Explore
Assessment
Connections
Artists - Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein
Art Movements - Mail Art,
Fluxus, Dada
Resources
http://www.warhol.org/
Key Vocabulary
Develop Craft
Envision
Understand Art World
Assessment
Connections
Resources
www.visual-arts-cork.com/.../s
urrealist-artists.htm