Lesson Plan Alexandra Parra & Marilyn Traeger Lesson: Japanese Mixed Media Prints Materials: Create a variety of images using the relief printing photographic image printed on copy paper, ink, process and mixed media. This lesson is helpful in newspaper, variety of 12x18” paper, acrylic teaching students about: the effects of lighting, polymer, oil pastel, paint, Prisma Colors, media of color mixing, thinking creatively, printmaking, choice process, and craftsmanship Equipment: soft pencil, ballpoint pen. TIP- This lesson is most successful when easily linoleum, cutters, stiff brushes, water container recognizable images with large areas of positive Software: Photoshop and negative space are used. Intended Outcome: Students will - Vocabulary: Become acquainted with printmaking and Arts: relief printmaking, negative space, positive printmakers space, detail, shape, edition, signature, date, plate, Learn and practice safe and sequential ink Technology: point of view, crop, image size, printmaking procedures Other Subject: Art History, Japanese printmaking, Create hand painted relief prints that Expressionism demonstrate good craftsmanship Use mixed media to refine image Learn the correct way to sign a print Arts NGSSS: Artists: VA.68.C.1.3 Identify qualities of exemplary Rauschenberg, Hokusai, Rembrandt, Warhol, Goya, artworks that are evident and transferable to the Picasso, Matisse judgment of personal work. VA.68.F1.2 Use non-traditional thinking and various techniques to create two-, three-, and/or four- dimensional artworks. VA.68.O1.3 Combine creative and technical knowledge to produce visually strong works of art.

Procedures: 1. Teacher intro on smart board using instructor created printmaker PowerPoint 2. Discuss methods of printmaking with students 3. Demo offset process 4. Students shoot image or select previous image 5. Resize image to 8.25 x 10.75 6. Teacher prints image on 8.5 x 11” paper 7. Students use the offset transfer process to transfer image to linoleum block 8. Teacher discusses and demonstrates safety of blades and cutting 9. Students cut on lines only 10. Teacher demo inking process using 3 colors of ink, a bristle brush, and a little water 11. Pulling a print by inking in a designated area, printing on a pad of newspapers or piece of foam core, and application of pressure by rubbing the back of the paper with the student’s hand 12. Demo out of the box thinking layering mixed media technique 13. Demo signing of print 14. Students print an edition of 5 prints numbering and signing them correctly 15. Select a print to make into a mixed media work of art 16. critique Assessment: Rubric Suggestions: variation, craftsmanship, signature, clarity Critique