Group Project and
Stations for Printmaking Class
Printmaking
Group: Paper making
Station: Marbled paper
Station: Sun Prints
Station: Veggie prints/ Nature prints
Today’s Lesson
Printmaking is an art form that involves creating or using one image (matrix)
that can be transferred onto a surface multiple times. An artist can create many
prints off one original design.
History
Hand Print from Chauvet cave, 28,000
BCE
Ancient people would place their hand on cave walls and blow crushed
pigment over top so as to leave the relief image of a hand.
The first relief stamps (Other than hand prints and objects found in nature) were made of
clay, metal, and wood and were used to mark peoples property, including animals
and prisoners!.
The first prints were made in China to transfer Buddhists
text and images onto paper so many people could read the same text.
Frontispiece of the
Diamond Sutra From the Tang Dynasty. China. 868 AD
The Japanese are credited with first creating woodblock
prints. The large amount of prints that could be created using the woodblock technique spread all
over Asia and even Europe.
The Great Wave off
Kanagawa - Hokusai
Peacocks represented the eyes of God
and the Resurrection in The Book of Kells
Prints became very popular in American pop culture. Do you
recognize this print?
.Marilyn by Andy Warhol, 1962
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