Unit 4: Print Making

What is print making

Lino

Painting

Global Issues

Option 2

Option 3

Option 1

Ideas

Water Pollution

Deforestation

Poverty

Final Idea - Water Pollution

Idea 1

A wave of trash and dead fish to represent the ocean being polluted

Idea 2

Idea 3

A fish underwater with a straw coming out of its mouth, next to a fish with its tail stuck inside a plastic bottle.

A whale with its head out of the water and its body under the water with only bones and surrounded by waste thrown in the ocean

The lino block is made out of a thin layer of linoleum, which is often mounted on a canvas backing that has been treated with a preparation of solidified linseed oil. Since there is no grain in soft linoleum, it can be sliced away more readily than a wood block, and in any direction, to create a raised surface that is suitable for printing and inking.

A printmaking method from the early 20th century is lino printing, commonly referred to as lino cutting. Linoleum can be used to make many prints of an artistic work in an efficient manner. A similar approach is used in other printmaking methods like etching and lithography.

Types of printmaking

Woodcut

Engraving

Etching

Lithograph

Screen print

Linocut

Process of making lino

  1. Take your Lino board place a carbon sheet above it and your butter paper on the carbon.
  1. Trace your sketch on the butter paper and apply pressure from your pencil so that the carbon can copy it onto the Lino board
  1. Use butter paper or a see through and trace your sketch on that
  1. Start using your tools to carve the pencil lines on the lino
  1. Make a rough sketch of your idea
  1. Then lastly cover your lino with ink and place and press your paper on top of it.