Worksheet #1 History of the Printing Press. German Renaissance.

Advance Printing-making Name_____________________________________________________Semester/Year_________________

The high Renaissance was an intellectual and _______________ movement in which artists study the classical traditional of the _________________________. These studies are based on ___________________________ and_____________________ as well as sharing, ___________________. This practice we still use today. Johannes Gutenberg was a Renaissance man, who invented the____________________ with ________________Type. The first book printed was the__________________ and was published about____________________. Albrecht Drer was an artist who lived in __________________, Germany. Drer was a master of printing using ______________and______________. Drer published a couple of books but his major book was__________________________ and contains ________________ prints. Nuremberg was the center of the mass production of _________________books making information more accessible to the people. This make possible the rapid spread of _________________ Throughout Europe. This was the bridge to the ______________________Period in the late 17th Century, which brought more individual freedom with education.

Activities Homework Assignments.

Critical Question #1
Watch video 85 Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vl2j24Mtk Using complete sentences, write a one-page paper analyzing the impact of the printing press and the importance of books during the Renaissance throughout history and life today. Post your argument on the website discussion page for this class.

Critical Question #2
Watch the video about Albrecht Drer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DmiEsvs6U Using complete sentence, please describe the advantages of both woodcut and engraving techniques. What happens to the differences because of the range of value between the two techniques?

Critical Question #3
Explain in a short paragraph (with at least 10 complete sentences) what works better for you in your artwork. Arranging words alone or arranging images combination with textual content? Post your answer on the website discussion from this class.

Rating Vocabulary Activity Sheet

United: Print making Lecture + = I knew it 1. Printmaking 2. Relief technique: 3. Dry point 4. Engraving 5. Stencil Process 6. Value 7. Cross-hatching 8. Baren 9. Edition 10. Registration 11. Original Print 12. Lino-cut 13.High Renaissance 14. Humanism 15. Reformation 16. Enlightenment 17. Value Scale - = I dont know ? = Im not sure

Handout Elements of Design

Gesture

Value scale

Line

Exercise: Compare and contrast.

Write a compare and contrast analysis of each artist and their techniques from the Images. Artist Illuminated manuscript E-book

Image

Describe

Contrast

Handout: Problem Solving in Relief Printing

By Sergio Salgado Dirzo. Transfer + Drawings on Linoleum. Any technique on hand-pull print by artist. We will work in this class with soft-cut same as linoleum but very soft rubber, cut into very gently not deep because it will be a messy block. There is no way to fix after you cut. Take in a consideration when you choose the image that has high quality graphic design. (High contrast) A) Getting started with ideas. B) Remember the Soft cut or (Linocut) works with strong graphic black and white contrasts. You can get good ideas by: 1) Starting with sketches on the planning pages, thumb nails, drawing, and compositions. 2) Xeroxing photos works very well to get good contrast in values, between black and white. 3) Make a collage with magazine clips, photos, sketches, textured papers, etc. Then Xerox your composition. This also works in your computer with Photoshop. 4) Abstracting drawings + experimental + photos also can be distorted in the computer using Photoshop, adobe or other tool. 5) Combining different art styles, look for images in the library for art book examples of German Expressionism or primitive artwork Maya, such as, Egyptian, examples of pictorials painting in Lascaux caves. 6) Look in the newspaper + magazines for social issues or images that have strong expressive qualities/Portraits. 7) Look the websites to find good images, make strong contrast with Photoshop. C) Sketch, plan ideas + images on paper to transfer to plate. I) Carbon Paper or tissue paper under drawing. II) Do drawing with 2B graphite paper place on top of soft cut (Lino) and rub with wood-spoon to transfer drawing. III) Drawing directly on soft cut (Lino). IV) Remember REVERSE THINGS on the plate. If you want lettering your letters + images must be reversed or backwards on the plate to print correctly on paper. V) Also you can use a light table to reverse your design.

Transfer + Drawing on SOFT-CUTS or (Linoleum)

Any Technique listed will get started I) Draw directly on soft cut or Linoleum, with pencil or marker. *REMEMBER IMAGE PRINT ON REVERSE FROM HOW TO APPEAR ON YOUR PLATE. (With direct drawing)

SOFT CUTS OR LINOLEUM PRINTS

PLATE PRINT II) Draw with soft graphite pencil on paper. Place on top of Soft-cut or (Linoleum) rub gently with wood spoon. Graphite will offset + reverse on soft- cut or (linoleum)

Drawing Plate Print III) Draw on tracing paper, on the back side of drawing put graphite pencil, turn paper graphite side down on soft-cut or linoleum trace lines from back of tracing paper graphite will offset on soft cut or linoleum. IV) Place transfer paper under you drawing, Draw on top of you drawing. Transfer paper will offset drawing on soft-cut or Linoleum. After your image is on your plate the carving will produce your colors. Think like your previous assignment, light colors first exactly like a watercolor technique. Look at the first example on previous page example # 1, draw directly on the plate:

To produce white carve out on soft-cut or linoleum. Then print blue. On the whole plate. Make a stencil for green color, cover with wallpaper the whole plate, and cut out the shape of green hill. Cut out except the shape of the black for the tree.

Handout Vocabulary
Printmaking is the process of making artwork by printing, as in early books printed on the Guttenberg printing press from the Renaissance to 19th. Century. Today prints are considered fine art prints when on quality paper and in small edition. Relief technique: Linocut Print, woodblock, vinyl eraser, and potato cut. (Top of the surface holds the ink) Intaglio Process (bottom of the lines in plate printed) Dry point direct cut on metal with etcher needle. The grooves are the scratched marks. Only 10 copies can be printed using this technique. The grooves will be worn out that not hold the ink. (Rembrandt made some great examples using this technique) Engraving the technique in this process is to put hard ground on metal scratching the design first very gentle then it is bitten with a bath acid. This technique you can make multiples, the ink is pushed into the grooves and prints lines or designs on the paper. Lithography, this technique is to draw directly onto the limestone with oil base paint and water. Mono type mono-print, draws on pixie glass inking the surface of the glass, This can be drawn by reduction of the first color, then adding another color which gives a secondary color then reducing again to get the last color. This is an adding and subtracting technique; an oil base works better. Stencil Process, cut stencil process like silkscreen (serigraphy) only the open will print. Andy Warhols work is a good example of this technique. Collograph, a collage of low relief objects glued onto a surface. The surface is sealed with varnish or other similar media. Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints or woodcuts produced in the 17thCentury and 20th Century and features motifs of landscaping, tales, from history, theater and pleasure. Chine Colle a paper collage Technique of using rice paper or a collage on a print with cut or torn paper to a desired shape put into proper position on a plate and then printing the paper and image together.

Edition: a set of identical prints numbered and signed that have been pulled by the artist or under his supervision. After the edition # is completed, the plate must be cancelled. left # of the edition 1/10, 2/10 10/10 maybe title of the piece and signed on right side (never put date on prints)