SECONDARY LESSON PLAN

YEAR LEVEL & SUBJECT: Year 11/12, VCE Visual Communication & Design.

DATE: Unit 4, Week 2.

NO. OF STUDENTS: 26

LESSON DURATION: 75 Minutes

TOPIC/FOCUS: Lino Cutting Workshop

VICTORIAN CURRICULUM STATEMENTS:
- Extend their understanding of safe visual arts practices and choose to use sustainable materials, techniques and technologies.
Analyse
how artists use visual conventions in artworks (ACAVAR123).
- Develop ways to enhance their intentions as artists through exploration of how artists use materials, techniques, technologies and processes (ACAVAM119).
- Practise techniques and processes to enhance representation of ideas in their art-making (ACAVAM121).
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES (INCLUDE LINK TO AusVELS):
The students will be able to:
- Carve a lino block.
- Understand the use of lino.
- Understand the process behind lino cutting.
- Demonstrate a safe process to cutting lino.
- Copy/transfer an image onto a seperate surface (in this case the lino).
SUMMARY OF RESOURCES REQUIRED:
- x24: lino blocks (1 per student).
- x24: Lino cutting tools
- x24: Hairdryer or other heating tool
- x24: Safety Block
- x24: Pencil/pen
- x24: Laptop
LESSON PROCEDURE

TIMING

RESOURCES

STEPS OF THE LESSON

(key activities and key questions)

EXPECTED STUDENT
REACTIONS OR
RESPONSES

TEACHER RESPONSES
TO STUDENTS
(including consideration of
the need to adapt, reteach
or extend)

GOALS & METHODS OF

EVALUATION
(including specific informal
and/or formal assessment
links to AusVELS)

15 mins

- Lino blocks

Introduction:
- Students are to listen
Welcome
Students
carefully to the
(1 per
student).
instructions and
- Brief introduction/description
Lino
introduction to lino
of history and technique of
cutting.
cutting
lino.
- Understand and
tools
Lino cutting is one of the oldest
analyse the art works
- Hairdry styles of printing, it is a printmaking
presented by the
technique, much similar to
er or
woodcutting/woodcarving in which a
teacher.
other
design is cut into the linoleum
heating
surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped
tool
chisel or gouge, with the raised
(optiona (uncarved) areas representing a
l)
reversal (mirror image) of the parts to
- Safety show printed. The linoleum sheet is
inked with a roller (called a brayer),
Block
and then impressed onto paper or
fabric. The actual printing can be
done by hand or with a press.
- Explain how art techniques are
used in lino cutting and
printing, such as
positive/negative space,
pattern, shapes etc.
- Demonstrate ideas of lino
printing to the students
involving; artist work,
techniques, etc.
(Explain and demonstrate some
lino printing artists i.e.; Rachel
Newling, Anna Curtis, Mary
Collett, Paul Binnie and Ben
Dickson)Refer to artist
websites and explain the use of

- Teacher is to briefly
educate the students on
the method of art.
- Demonstrate examples
of artists and lino prints.

- Able to think critically about

the works presented in front
of them.

Lesson Development:
- Students gather an
(Demonstration)
understanding of the
- Demonstrate a finished
safety of lino cutting.
product of lino block/print.
- Understand and
- Demonstrate OH and S on how
remember the lino tools.
to cut lino safely, knife should
never be cutting towards the
body, it should be cutting in
the opposite direction. Use the
safety block to help prevent
injuries.
- Safety boards are used to
keep the lino knives and
blades away from the fingers.

- Display what a finished

- Able to understand what

lino block looks like

(carved).
- Make sure all students
are listening carefully
when instructing them
about the OH and S of
lino cutting.

each tool is used for.

- Understand the process of
lino cutting.
- Understand the importance
of safety when cutting.

Guided Practice:
- Understand the process
Students
are
given
time
to
of lino cutting.
(1 per
draw/transfer their
student).
- Able to use the tools
Lino
images/designs from their
safely.
cutting
folios onto the lino block freely
tools
or trace using the design they
Hairdry
have brought to class.
er or
- Practice with students who are
other
finding carving difficult.
heating - Students are to practice
tool
individually or among
(optiona
themselves.
l)
- Heat may be applied to the
- Safety
lino blocks with a hairdryer or
Block
other heat tool to make
Pencil/p
cutting easier.

- Teacher is to assist any

- Able to provide a safe work

students finding the

task(s) difficult.
- Provide critical and
efficient feedback to
students to help them
develop their
skills/knowledge.

place between their peers.

- Understand the importance
of learning different
techniques.

10 mins

20 mins

- Lino blocks

en

20 mins

- Lino blocks
(1 per
student).
- Lino
cutting
tools
- Hairdry
er or
other
heating
tool
(optiona
l)
- Safety
Block
- Pencil/p
en

Evaluation:
- Students are to apply
Students
are
given
the
what has been learnt this
opportunity to cut without
far in the lesson into their
guidance from teacher.
practice (how or what is
Make
critical
decisions
alone
the right way to cut
(what should/shouldnt be
safely?)
cut?)
- Understand how lino
Apply
the
art
techniques
to
cutting operates (the
the design i.e.; thinking about,
carved lines are the
proportion, scale, size, ratio,
negative spaces the uncropping, perspective, etc.
carved are the negative).

- Asses the safety of

students (are they
working safely with the
tools?)

- Able to apply the art method

of lino cutting.
- Understand art
techniques/language.

10 mins

- Question
Handout
- Pen/pencil

Conclusion:
Class discussion:
- How can lino cutting be
adopted into everyday art?
- Why is lino cutting different to
other printing styles in todays
society?
- Hand out question sheet.
- Dismiss class.

- Students are to complete

- Stimulate class

the questions handout

before the class is
dismissed.
- Students to engage in
classroom discussion.

discussion.
discussion and answer
Briefly
explain
what
will
questions.
be happening in the next - Reflect on the tasks which
lesson.
have been completed.
Dismiss
class.
-

Presentation/List of lino printing artists demonstrated to the class in the introduction:

Rachel Newling:
http://rachelnewling.com/
Anna Curtis

- Able to engage in class

http://annacurtis.com.au/
Mary Collett
http://linoprints.co.uk/
Paul Binnie
http://www.artelino.com/articles/paul-binnie-prints.asp
Ben Dickson
http://www.originalportraitart.com/linocutting-methods

Question Handout
Answer the following questions to the best of your ability:
How is lino cutting different to other artistic styles such as; painting, drawing,
sculpture, etc?

Why is it sometimes important to heat the lino block?

How does the method of lino cutting incorporate the art technique of negative and
positive space?

Explain why it is important to follow safety procedures when lino cutting?