TITLE of Project: My Favorite Things OBJECTIVES: The student Will Be Able To: 1. understand that relief prints reverse the image MEDIUM: block with Styrofoam from the block to the print. 2. successfully plan a print that communicates the BIG IDEA: Communication value of simple objects in your own life. 3. persuade the viewer to appreciate or like the ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can I show others a objects the artist presents. piece of my world? 4. successfully execute the steps in a reduction relief printmaking technique (Styrofoam). MATERIALS: Newsprint or sketchbook, pencil, 5. define shapes and color harmony within a print. tracing paper, markers, Styrofoam plate for block 6. use negative as well as positive shapes effectively , construction paper, block ink, brayer, in their prints. wooden spoon, scissors, glass 7. formulate and share responses to classmates' RELATED HISTORIC artwork. ARTWORK: 8. understand and use art vocabulary & concepts. STUDIO PROCEDURES: The Four Horsemen, 1. Sketch the drawing – focusing on basic parts from the Apocalypse with lights and darks. Draw in sections of light Albrecht Durer and dark. 2. Using the broad tip of colored 1498 markers fill in the different colors chosen for the print. Choose at least 3 colors that will create harmony or blend nicely – analogous or triadic colors. More than 3 colors may be used. Remember to leave white. 3. Use tracing paper, TEKS: All levels of Art, Grades K-12, require trace the outline of the drawing and the pieces printmaking in the TEKS. It is located in Section 2: that will stay white. Flip the tracing paper over Creative expression. The student communicates on top of a flat piece of styrofoam. 4. Using a ideas through original artworks using a variety of dull pencil, outline the lines pressing down media with appropriate skills. The student through the tracing paper and into the expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while Styrofoam. For the white areas use the dull challenging the imagination, fostering reflective pencil to fill in the space rather than just outline thinking, and developing disciplined effort and it. Pull off the tracing paper and go over the lines progressive problem-solving skills. and spaces again with the dull pencil to reinforce SAMPLE OF ARTWORK: the marks. 5. Plan an edition of 5 images. Use construction paper that is at least 1 inch larger Sample Artwork: than the Styrofoam on all sides. 6. On a sheet of Fish by Kyle Wood glass, squeeze a toothpaste width stream of the lightest color, about 4 inches long. Using the brayer roll out the ink until it lightly covers the entire surface of the brayer (try not to get it on the sides). 7. With the Styrofoam plate on top of DISCUSSION: Go through history and rationale a piece of newsprint, roll the inked brayer over for Printmaking. Students could watch a video on the surface (try not to get ink on the paper). the reduction process: Don’t press hard, but make sure all surface is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BESZ8XUpM0Y covered. 8. Place construction paper on clean Students could watch a video on Albrecht Durer’s newsprint, pick up inked Styrofoam plate, turn it woodcut https://youtu.be/C3DmiEsvs6U over so that ink is underneath, place it down in the center of the paper. 9. Press down on the Styrofoam plate firmly (to transfer the ink) and then flip the paper/plate over and use the bowl of a wooden spoon to further press the ink onto the paper. 10. Ink and print 4 more sheets and put them off to dry. 11. Clean the Styrofoam plate in clean water and dry. Be careful not to score it with other marks. 12. Use scissors to cut away the various other parts of the styrofoam drawing that you want different colors. 13. Repeat steps 6-11 using different colors for the different parts and carefully placing them on the prints in the sections matching what was cut out. Do this for all prints in the edition. Be as neat as possible – avoiding stray ink and fingerprints! 16. After all prints have dried (hopefully keeping at least 3 good ones) sign them using a pencil and the guide here. The “fraction” part on the left communicates the limit of the edition of prints. This sample 1/10 means this is the first

print out of an edition of 10 good prints. 17. Take part in class critique. 18. Self- evaluate artwork, photograph best print and place in digital portfolio

RELATES TO OTHER CONTENT AREAS:

Math: measuring; engineering involved in a detailed process Science: the composition of printmaking inks and chemicals and their reaction to each other VOCABULARY: Analogous Colors: 3 colors side by side on the color wheel – mimicking the color schemes found in nature Triadic Colors: 3 colors spaced evenly around the color wheels – when linked with a line the lines form a triangle Block (): the image is printed from the raised portion of a surface area after the artist carves away areas to remain the color of the paper – the first printmaking process Brayer: a small roller for inking blocks by hand Styrofoam: a kind of expanded polystyrene (plastic)

TITLE of Project: Behind It All OBJECTIVES: The student Will Be Able To: 1. understand and reproduce texture. MEDIUM: Monoprinting with Gelli Plates 2. successfully plan and execute a monoprint that visually represents layers using Gelli plates. BIG IDEA: Background 3. demonstrate an understanding of non-objective artwork using correct and complex composition. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What do we find behind 4. define texture and color harmony within a print. the layers? 5. use negative as well as positive shapes effectively in their prints. MATERIALS: Stencils, stamps, textured objects, 6. formulate and share responses to classmates' Gelli plates for monoprinting, printmaking or artwork. construction paper, bottled acrylic paints, glass, 7. understand and use art vocabulary & concepts. brayer(s), sponge or paintbrush, cutips STUDIO PROCEDURES: RELATED HISTORIC ARTWORK: 1. Plan a color scheme in a sketchbook using at Madame least 3 harmonious colors. More colors may be Butterfly used but there must be an odd number of colors. Helen 2. With a Gelli plate on a plastic or glass surface, Frankenthaler select your prominent color and squeeze a 2000 nickel-sized amount of paint onto the Gelli plate. Woodcut With a brayer spread this paint around the Gelli plate. Colors could also be combined for this TEKS: All levels of Art, Grades K-12, require primary coating. 3. Using textured plates, printmaking in the TEKS. It is located in Section 2: stencils with dabbed paint, rubber stamps, or Creative expression. The student communicates found textured objects (leaves, rope, burlap, ideas through original artworks using a variety of lace, etc.) press into the Gelli plate color with media with appropriate skills. The student medium pressure. 4. Could also use squeeze expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while challenging the imagination, fostering reflective paint onto a glass, spread with brayer, and roll thinking, and developing disciplined effort and over a textured object or plate and then press progressive problem-solving skills. onto Gelli plate. 5. Use creative ways to apply

color and textures to the plate – or draw on the SAMPLE OF plate with a cutip – always paying careful ARTWORK: attention to the Rule of Thirds and basic aesthetic composition rules. 6. After all textures Sample Artwork: and colors have been added place a clean sheet Paint Lids by Dina of printmaking or construction paper (that is at Wakley least 1 inch all the way around larger than the Gelli plate) over the prepared Gelli plate – centering it as close as visually possible. Press DISCUSSION: Go through history and rationale firmly over the back of the paper with the heal of for Printmaking. Students could watch a video on the hand. 7. Carefully and slowly peal off the the reduction process: paper. 8. This creates one print – thus the term https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK3AQ08sYRc monoprint. 9. Use this layered non-objective Students could watch a video on Helen artwork as its own artwork or as the background Frankenthaler and Abstract Expressionism for another work of art. 10. After all prints have https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art- dried, take part in class critique. 18. Self- 1010/abstract-exp-nyschool/new-york- evaluate artwork, photograph print and place in school/v/frankenthaler-sea digital portfolio. RELATES TO OTHER CONTENT AREAS: Math: measuring; engineering involved in a detailed process Science: the composition of printmaking inks, Gelli plates and chemicals and their reaction to each other VOCABULARY: Texture: an element of art that shows how something would feel, the consistency of the surface Monoprint: a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple images Analogous Colors: 3 colors side by side on the color wheel – mimicking the color schemes found in nature Triadic Colors: 3 colors spaced evenly around the color wheels – when linked with a line the lines form a triangle Gelli Plate: a flat surface printmaking process where the image is developed on a printing plate made of gelatin Brayer: a small roller for inking blocks by hand Non-objective art: a type of art that has no object as its focal or origination point; but conveys a sense of simplicity and purity Rule of Thirds: a compositional plan in photography. With a viewing plane divided into 9 equal sections, aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points. Allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section. E.g. placing the horizon on the top or bottom line.

Example with Gelli print as background for other Media

Innovative Way to Produce Background – Printmaking Technique

Use a thin plastic garbage bag. 1. Cut on one side and bottom to lay it flat. 2. Squeeze and spread white glue onto cardboard or poster board. 3. While glue is wet, lay trashbag onto surface and manipulate it into creative shapes and waves. 4. Turn board over and tape on back. 5. After glue is dry, place block-printing ink onto glass surface, roll ink onto brayer, use the inked brayer to roll the ink onto the front surface of the trashbag board. 6. Press inked trashbag board onto paper and use the resulting print as a background.

TITLE of Project: Reduced to a Still Life OBJECTIVES: The student Will Be Able To: 1. understand that relief prints reverse the image MEDIUM: block printmaking with linoleum from the block to the print. 2. successfully plan a print that communicates the BIG IDEA: Communication value of simple objects in the world. 3. persuade the viewer to the artist’s point of view as ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can printmaking as to the importance of the simple objects. an artform impact society and culture? 4. successfully execute the steps in a reduction relief printmaking technique (linoleum block). MATERIALS: Newsprint or sketchbook, pencil, 5. define shapes and color harmony within a print. tracing paper, transfer paper or graphite, glass, 6. use negative as well as positive shapes effectively in markers, linoleum for block printing, carving their prints. tools, printmaking paper, block ink, brayer, 7. formulate and share responses to classmates' baren/wooden spoon, Minwax polycrylic spray artwork. RELATED HISTORIC 8. understand and use art vocabulary & concepts. ARTWORK: STUDIO PROCEDURES: 1. Sketch the drawing – focusing on basic parts The Four Horsemen, with lights and darks. Draw in sections of light from the Apocalypse and dark. 2. Using the broad tip of colored Albrecht Durer markers fill in the different colors chosen for the 1498 print. Choose at least 3 colors that will create Woodcut harmony or blend nicely – analogous or triadic colors. More than 3 colors may be used. Remember to leave white. 3. Use tracing paper, trace the outline of the drawing along with the TEKS: All levels of Art, Grades K-12, require sections of color. Flip the tracing paper over and printmaking in the TEKS. It is located in Section 2: use transfer paper or a graphite coating to Creative expression. The student communicates transfer the backwards image onto the linoleum. ideas through original artworks using a variety of Outline the lines with fine tipped Sharpie marker. media with appropriate skills. The student Spray the linoleum drawing with a coating of expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while Minwax polycrylic spray. This “fixes” the image to challenging the imagination, fostering reflective the block so that repeated printing doesn’t erase thinking, and developing disciplined effort and the image. 4. Plan an edition of 8 images. Use progressive problem-solving skills. printmaking paper that is at least 1 inch larger SAMPLE OF than the block on all sides. 5. While Minwax is ARTWORK: drying, prepare a cardboard registration guide. Use a piece of corrugated cardboard about 1 inch Sample Artwork: larger on all sides than the piece of printmaking Still Life by Geoff paper. Place the piece of printmaking paper in Hargraves the lower right corner and trace around it. Cut strips of cardboard to fill the 2 sides around the paper trace and use clear packing tape to tape them down. Lay the linoleum block centered in DISCUSSION: Go through history and rationale the paper area and trace around it. Use an X-Acto for Printmaking. Students could watch a video on knife to cut out the block space – cut a piece of the reduction process: poster board that will cover the cut out block https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy5lvrWsa0 space and use clear packing tape to tape it to the Students could watch a video on Albrecht Durer’s bottom to cover the block space. 6. Using a block woodcut https://youtu.be/C3DmiEsvs6U stop carve the linoleum block using a linoleum cutter (paying attention to choice of blade for the purpose) always carving in an away direction. Science: the composition of printmaking inks and Carve out the area that will stay white. 7. On a chemicals and their reaction to each other sheet of glass, squeeze a toothpaste width stream of the lightest color, about 4 inches long. VOCABULARY: Using the brayer roll out the ink until it lightly Analogous Colors: 3 colors side by side on the color wheel – mimicking the color schemes found in nature covers the entire surface of the brayer (try not to Triadic Colors: 3 colors spaced evenly around the get it on the sides). 8. With the block on top of a color wheels – when linked with a line the lines form a piece of newsprint, roll the inked brayer over the triangle surface (try not to get ink on the paper). Don’t Block (Relief Printing): the image is printed from press hard, but make sure all surface is covered. the raised portion of a surface area after the artist 9. Place inked block into space prepared in the carves away areas to remain the color of the paper registration guide. 10. Place printmaking paper – the first printmaking process in the guided space on top of the inked block. Brayer: a small roller for inking blocks by hand Evenly press on the back of the paper with a Baren: a disk-like hand tool with a flat bottom used to baren, wooden spoon, metal spoon, or wooden burnish the back of a sheet of paper, lifting ink from egg – making sure pressure has been applied to the block Block: a wooden, linoleum, eraser-type flat and the entire surface to make sure the paper smooth block used to transfer an ink image onto receives the ink. Be as neat as possible – avoiding paper stray ink and fingerprints! 11. Re-ink and make 8 prints. Place on rack to dry. 12. Clean block with clean water and dry. 13. Carve more of the block away for sections that will remain the first color. 14. Repeat steps 7-12 for the second lightest color. 14. Carve more of the block away for sections that will remain the second color. 15. Repeat steps 7-12 for the last color – should be the darkest one. 16. After all prints have dried

(hopefully keeping at least 5 good ones) sign them using a pencil and the guide here. The

“fraction” part on the left communicates the limit of the edition of prints. This sample 1/10 means this is the first print out of an edition of 10 good prints. 17. Take part in class critique. 18. Self-evaluate artwork, photograph best print and place in digital portfolio RELATES TO OTHER CONTENT AREAS: Math: measuring; engineering involved in a detailed process