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PRINTMAKING
Theme: Dragons
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Drawing for a print
Looking at: Line, pattern, structure, shape.
Materials: Pencil, photocopying paper (18 x 12 cm).
"I am armoured above and below with scales and hard gems". Smaug, The Hobbit.
Dragons have heads like lizards or snakes. They are scaley like reptiles or fish. Dragons have wings and fins. They have sharp, clawed feet and long pointed teeth. They breathe fire.
Dragons are mythological creatures. They are not real - or are they? What do you think a dragon looks like? Using a pencil and thinking about line, pattern, structure and shape, draw your idea of a dragon.
Making a print
Looking at: Line, pattern, structure, shape, colour.
Materials: Quickprint, ink, rollers, biro pen, newspaper, printing paper, ink plate (flat tiles or a mirror would do), tracing paper, scissors.
Step 1.
Trace the drawing you did of a Dragon. Hold the tracing over the quickprint tile and draw on top of your tracing lines with biro pen. Cut out the outline of your dragon shape with scissors.
Pressing VERY HARD draw over the scale patterns of your dragon on top of the quickprint.
Your printing "block" is now ready. Write your name on the BACK in biro.
Step 2
Set out your printing area like the illustration below.
Step 3.
Put a tiny amount of ink on the ink plate. [As much toothpaste as would go on a toothbrush - Less is more! Teacher does this ALWAYS!]. Roll the ink with one of your rollers until it is tacky and looks like the texture of velvet.
Step 4.
Now roll the ink onto your dragon printing block. Turn it ink side down onto your printing paper and roll on top of it with the clean roller. Carefully lift the block up and you should have a print. You can make several of these.
Step 5.
Wash the block and dry, draw on more scales or patterns leaning heavily with the biro pen. Roll another colour of ink onto the plate, then ink up your dragon block. Carefully position this on top of one of your original prints and roll with the clean roller. You now have a two-colour print! Repeat.
Step 6.
Clean up all your equipment and tidy away.
