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Block Printing
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Materials: Rice Paper, Tracing Paper & Other Paper Suitable for Printing/Stamping, Pattern/Anomaly Handout & Rubber Stamp Catalogs, 2'' x2'' or 4''x6'' cutting blocks, Speedball Cutting tools, Brayers & Barens Lexan palettes for spreading ink, (Printing Inks, Stamp Pads, Embossing Powders, Embossing Heat Gun)
Teacher will talk about pattern & anomaly from handout, positive/negative space, balance of composition, broken continuous lines, selected use of color, selected use of papers, selected use of embossing.
- Students will trace around a block template at least 3-4 times in their sketch books.
- Students will design 3-4 tiled pattern examples.
- Students will transfer their designs onto carving material
Once you have inked the linoleum, you will
need to carefully place a clean piece of paper on top so the image is in the center.
Teacher will explain block cutting, safety, and clean-up procedure.
- Teacher will explain how to transfer sketchbook design to the cutting blocks, review safety, and clean up procedures.
- Students will rub pattern design onto a block or use tracing paper for the rubbing.
- Teacher will allow them to start the cutting slowly and as carefully as possible. (Make sure they do not dig too deeply)
- Students will clean up completely.
Teacher will explain project goals on designing the pattern & anomaly designs.
Students will experiment on a variety of papers to get the best single prints.
Students will print one good single print in their sketchbooks.
Students will plan out the printing of the finished piece by experimenting with various anomalies.
- A change in color or pressure
- A change in direction
- Adding someone else's tile
- An embossed area
- Anything else that suitably breaks up the overall pattern created