Printmaking Projects

The Advanced Projects: Printmaking Track provides projects that are for students who have already mastered the basics and are ready for more challenging coursework. The projects in this track are limited to block printing due to limited access to screens for screenprinting and printing presses for intaglio prints.

Task 1: Reduction Print

Click on the title for a full set of instructions for reduction printing.

Task 2: Reduction Postcard

Create a 4" x 6" Reduction Print and print on cardstock or cereal box or some other firm paper material for use as postcards. Send to other friends in the class.
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Task 3: Guerilla Printing

Find a grate or manhole cover or other metal street oddity and ink it with water-based block printing ink. Print a few different versions on paper.

Task 4: Spray Paint and other Stencils

Create a stencil or multiple stencils to create a series of similar yet unique prints. You can use spray paint, liquid paint or ink, or even block printing ink to add color and dimension your composition.

Task 5: Block Printing from Your Kitchen

Task 6: Social Distancing Group of Objects
Raid your kitchen for vegetables and fruits you could use as printing blocks. Test out different combinations, patterns, colors, and textures to create a minimum of four unique finished prints.
Create a set of objects that represent this period of social distancing to you. Print them in different configurations.

Print at least 8 versions and you could use some or all for the next project, if you would like.

Task 7: COVID group poem with prints

Create a group doc and write a poem together. Print a set of 8 prints to trade with your group so that each line or stanza of poetry can have an image attached to it. Your print should fall within the theme: life during social distancing. The poem can be on any topic.

Turning in Your Work

  • Turn in in process images of your compositions to Google Classroom
  • Turn in finished composition images to Google Classroom (full view and detail shot)
  • In the comments, write about your work using art specific vocabulary (elements of art, principles of design, etc.)
    • What did you learn from this project?
    • What was successful about your composition? (Think specifically about a few principles and elements here)
    • What did not go as well as you had hoped?
    • What will you take away from this experience and apply in your next composition?
  • Post to our shared art wall or art wall two or art wall three. Name it (Print1 - Name) or (Sculpt1 - Name) or (AdvDraw1 - Name), and comment and upvote others' artwork you admire.
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