BLOCKPRINTING

Step 1: Obtain reference/inspiration materialStep 2: Create three sketches (same size as the final print) with different ideas for your composition. Remember that your sketch will be mirror-image when printed. Step 3: Pick your favorite composition from your three sketches.Step 4: Draw your composition on your linoleum block. Step 5: Carve your composition into your linoleum block.Step 6: Ink the linoleum block and create a test print. If there are flaws, correct them and print again until you get your print the way you like it.

How do I make the best composition?

Consider how you use your spaceConsider rule of thirds

Consider texture, pattern, and decorative accentsCreate a balance between dark and light (carved and uncarved places)

Consider a contrast between solid areas and thin lines/detailsConsider straying from realism

But what about color?

You will create the following 13 prints:• A series of 3 black and white prints• A primary colors print• A secondary colors print• A print that uses black and white plus one tertiary

color• A print with cool colors• A print with warm colors• A print with analogous colors• A print that uses black and white plus one neutral • A print that uses complimentary colors• A print that uses three values of one color (dark,

medium, and light)• A print with a color scheme of your choice

• You can print a MAXIMUM of TWO colors at a time (the color of the paper, and the color of the ink).

• Any additional colors will be hand-colored after the print has dried.

• You are welcome to print on white paper only and then add all additional colors by hand.

• The combinations are endless!!! • Consider moving around the room

to find colors in use so you can mooch off of each other (aka: be efficient).

RULE OF THIRDS!

HOW TO LABELYOUR PRINTS LIKEA PRO

Print # Title Signature and year

HOW TO LABELYOUR PRINTS LIKEA PRO

1/13 “Penguin Love” Smith ‘15

Color is light reflected off of

objects. Color has three main

characteristics:

• hue (the name of the color,

such as red, green, blue, etc.)

• value (how light or dark it is)

• intensity (how bright or dull it

is)

This is RED!

(hue)

This is all green!(all VALUES of green)

INTENSITY!!!(bright vs. dull)

• White is pure light. Black is the absence of light.

• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All

other colors are mixes of primary colors.

• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together

Orange, Green, and Violet

• Tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary

color together. *Notice the primary color is always named first (red-orange, not orange-red)

• Complementary colors are

located directly across from

each other on the color

wheel.

•They contrast because

they share no common

colors

•When they are mixed

together, they neutralize

each other to make brown

or gray.

Analogous colors are next to each other on the color wheel

Which color scheme is ANALOGOUS and which is COMPLIMENTARY?

ANALOGOUS COMPLIMENTARY