BLOCK PRINTING
Reduction Prints with Potatoes
Potatoes are an excellent medium to use in learning reduction block-printing techniques because it is fast. There is an additional benefit in the limitations of the medium because it requires interesting innovations within color systems and very simple ideas. Click the following links for unit documentation
INSTRUCTIONS
CONCEPTS
RUBRIC
ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE
In this video, erasers and latex blocks are used to make book bindings, decorative papers, and cards. The unit is a good introduction to block printing using reduction print technique and overprinting.
Find lesson plans, rubrics, and a list of concepts and vocabulary words attached below
EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK
RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS
Here are examples of student research notebooks. They experimented with different designs and researched artists.
Media experiments were also recorded in notebooks
REDUCTION PRINTS USING LATEX BLOCKS
Experimentation is key in this unit. The compositions to the right, were made by cutting out different colored paper rectangles and printing with different colors.
Many more prints were made than were used in the final composition. Choosing from twenty or more small prints, and arranging them together in different combinations was the method used to find compositional balance.
It is important to remember that the complexity of the composition is based on color combinations, not the intricacy of the images. Visual rhythms are created. This is as much a color unit as it is a printing unit.
