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Internet Lesson Plans by Woody Duncan

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MULTICOLOR COLLOGRAPH LESSON PLAN

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"Kansas City Jazz" by Ali Sultani

Pithasamaie Tonsavanh proudly holds up printing plate

This lesson is designed to be the culminating lesson

in a sequence of lessons

dealing with the figure and using elegant shapes in a composition.

Conceptual Objective / this process will expose students to a vivid, graphic means of expression with a strong chance of satisfying success using limited resources.

Behavioral Objective / each student will produce several monotype prints from a collograph (cardboard) printing plate of their own design.

Materials List / scraps of heavy matboard (sizes may vary), oaktag or other light posterboard, scissors, utility knifes (cheap retractable are best), pencil, ball-point pen, carbon paper, white glue, glass inking plates (one per color), soft rubber brayers (one per color), masking tape, stapler, old newspapers, cheap white acrylic house paint, 2 1/2 inch flat brush, white drawing paper for printing, folders for student prints, waterbased block printing inks (several colors, your biggest expense), printing press (you could print without it), and a drying rack (a must).

Vocabulary List and Printmaking Concepts

Registration

Overlapping

Relief Print

Reverse Image

Mirror Image

Proof

Brayer

Edition

Monoprint / Monotype

Collograph

Documentation (signing)