Curated OER
Papier Colle Printmaking
Papier Colle is a printmaking technique used by many famous artists, including Georges Braque and Henri Matisse. Have your class master this art using this fantastic resource. What a fun, new art technique to learn!
Curated OER
Printmaking for Grades 6-8
Students create a relief print. The chosen image for this print be a setting from a novel that played an important role in the plot of the story. They conclude this lesson by writing a literature response about their setting.
Curated OER
Art Imitates Life
Elementary and middle schoolers examine postcards depicting World War I events. Eventually, they create prints that reflect their own lives. In an interesting blend of history and current events, this lesson should engage your kids in...
Curated OER
Art for Protest or Persuasion
Students examine Chicana/o and earlier prints made for protest and persuasion. They compare characteristics of different processes and distinguish multiple original prints from mass-produced reproductions of artworks.
Curated OER
Ceramic Tile Wall Murals
Students create multi-color lithographic posters, reinterpreting the technique of a famous artist or artistic style. They discuss art history, aesthetics, criticism, and personal expression. Students focus on the elements of design and...
Arizona State University
Asu: Lesson Two: Art for Protest or Persuasion (Printmaking Option)
Site for teachers who are seeking to integrate art and printmaking with language, communication and social studies. It is based on Chicano and Mexican use of the print to make social statements.
Other
St. Louis Art Museum: What Is Printmaking? See for Yourself
See a gallery of different types of prints and watch simple animations that illustrate four printmaking methods: etching, lithography, block printing, and screen printing. Includes an exercise that challenges visitors to compare and...
Other
Original Antique Prints and Print Processes
Reference and glossary for printmaking with a gallery of print examples connected to the sites home page.
Other
Warnock Fine Arts: Printmaking
Article that explains and gives examples of many printmaking processes. Includes details about relief printing, lithography, serigraphy, intaglio and more. Links to books and artist's examples.
Other
University of Kansas: Lithograph
Using Richard Parkes Bonnington's Tour du gros horloge, Evreux as a springboard into discussion, this site outlines the printmaking process using lithograph. The drawing materials used in lithograph printmaking are also discussed.
Other
Printmaking Techniques
A listing with definitions of various techniques from the medium of printmaking. No image examples are used in this site.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Agnes Tait
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Agnes Tait is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with lithographic prints.
Other
Linda Hall Library of Science: Women's Work: Scientific Illustrators: Printing
Historical overview of two early forms of printmaking: intaglio and lithography.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Benton Spruance
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Benton Spruance is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his extensive work with Lithographic prints.
Other
What Is an Original Print?
This site has descriptions of many printmaking processes as well as links to other printmaking sites and galleries.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Alphabetical Listing of Printmakers
ArtCyclopedia offers a clickable list of printmakers from the formation of the media to the present--includes links to biographies and works.
Other
Currier & Ives Online Gallery
An amazing collection of Currier & Ives prints. Click on the links to see the enlarged images.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wanda Gag
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Wanda Gag is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with prints including lithographs and woodcuts.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Stow Wengenroth
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Stow Wengenroth is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work as a lithographer.