Apr. 23 – Printmaking

By now you should be starting to test your prints by making some artist proofs.  After your proofs, you can go back and clean up your carving if you like, but once you start your good copies, you can no longer carve the block!

When you are all done your prints, you will mount the best one on construction paper, like we did for the marker drawings and prepare it for display.  I discussed how you can use newsprint to make a mini folder to keep your prints together and hand them in.

As a reminder here's are the prints I am going to mark (I have already marked your thumbnail sketches.  If you have not handed them in, do so NOW).

• 1 artist proof
• 3 black and white prints
• 1 enhanced print (experimenting with different colours)

Keep practicing your proofs until you are ready and confident that you can do a good job on the nice paper!  There is a limited number of good paper available.