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Printmaking Map Portraits

__Objective__: We are on an adventure, a journey in a sense where we move forward, backward, and sometimes pause at intersections, deciding where to go. At this point in your life, where are you going? Who are you exactly? How do you fit within the world around you and are you discovering that you may belong elsewhere? Or right here? That is the journey and within this project, you will not only learn the exercise of printmaking but you will also learn how a map can say much more than you know.


 * Before we get started, let's see how much you know. Answer these questions while checking in for class.**


 * 1. What is a linoleum print?**
 * 2. What direction do you cut...towards yourself or away?**
 * 3. What is a portrait?**

[|Artist of Focus: Ed Fairburn]

Prezi

Step 1: Select a portrait of yourself. Rules of the good portrait Step 2: Convert photo of yourself into a three color image using Illustrator. Written Instructions here media type="youtube" key="HpdS1yrAn6I" width="420" height="315" Step 3: Listen to Printmaking demo that Ms. O'Ryan does in class. Step 4: Print image and follow printmaking demo. Step 5: Pick a map that works compositionally with your portrait. Where and how do you want to yourself within the map? Think constantly about how we are a journey within ourselves and within this map, we discover that we move. Life is never still. Step 6: Begin steps to create linoleum print. Step 7: Choose colors for print that would work for image. Step 8: Figure out composition for print.

[|Rubric]

Watch video for demo on how to print onto a texture surface: media type="youtube" key="mD3mq_KfRlk" width="420" height="315"