UNIT 1

LEARN
AND
PRINT
PREPARED BY:
ROSELYN GUTAS
LESSON 1

EXPLORING THE WORLD OF

PRINTS

GET SET
Look at your thumbs. Can you see the lines on them? Press your right thumb on an ink pad. Then press it on a
sheet of paper.

Something like this will appear on the paper.

No two thumbmarks are the same. This is why thumbmarks help identify people.

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Thumbmarks are examples prints. What other prints can you find around you? You find on your print on you
clothes, pillow cases, blankets and table cloth. You can also find them on candy wrappers, school bags, and milk
container.

ART LINK
A print may be just a letter, a shape or an image. It can be repeatedly used to make more copies.

In Art, prints can be arranged to form a design. They can also come in different colors and sizes.

Different materials can be used to make simple prints like leaves, okra, pechay eraser, and many others.
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ACITIVTY 1
Leaves have beautiful interesting shapes. They make good materials for printing. Go out to your yard and find
different kinds of leaves. Study their shapes and their venation. Venation is the pattern of veins food on the blade of a
leaf. Thick, strong leaves with clear venation make good prints. Choose one or two for your leaf printing project.

ACTIVITY 2
Plan on how you will arrange your prints according to the shape of your chosen leaf. Make a design in the box.
Draw the shape of your leaf repeatedly arranging them a form a design.
LESSON 2

PRINTMAKING
GET SET
Before the advent of the internet, typewriters could be found in offices everywhere. It is the most useful
tool or communication.

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Just like computers, a typewriter has a keyboard. When you want to point a letter, just press it on the keyboard and
the letter rod will readily hit the inked ribbon and the letter gets printed on the paper.

In the previous lesson, you learned how to do leaf prints. In this lesson, you will learn to do relief of printed.

ART LINK
Relief printing is one of the simplest printing methods where the printing surface is raised above its background
to stand out in carved form.

To make a printing block, cut a carrot, potato or kamote crosswise Carve, on the smooth surface, any design you
want. Cut away the part you do not want to print.

When done, pass on a stamp pad. Then stamp your design on paper.
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ACTIVITY 1
Start with simple geometric designs: circle, square, triangle or oblong. Cut a potato crosswise in halves and on its
smooth surface, carve a simple shape removing some parts to make your shape higher than the rest. Leave only the
parts that will make the print you like.

ACTIVITY 2

Practice making your own simple design. Imagine that each of the following circles is the smooth surface of a cut
vegetable. Draw a simple shape on each circle making sure that the shape will be easy to carve.

WRAP UP
Printing for Fun
What you need:
You carved shape on a vegetable cut, tempera (one color), water, any kind of paper, newspaper sheet,
pentel pens (choose three to four colors), sponge

What to do:
1. Plan how you will stamp you design on the whole sheet of paper.
2. Spread the newspaper sheet on your work area.
3. Dip the sponge on a dish. Pour a little amount of water into it and add a little amount of tempera paint.
4. Dip the carved vegetable into the sponge making sure your full design is painted.
5. Press it on the paper where you plan it to be. Add more prints. When the whole surface of the paper is
covered with prints, let the paper dry.
6. When the paper is completely dry, add a combination of lines in between the shapes. Make sure to use
the same line combination all throughout the design.
LESSON 3

CONTRAST IN DESIGN
GET SET
Color the shapes according to the given colors.

Which of the two circles seem to catch attention fast?

Do you know why?

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Let us find out.

The first circle is red placed against a violet background. The circle does not stand out because red and violet are
similar. They are similar because violet also contains red.

The second circle is yellow placed against a violet background. This time, yellow stands out because yellow and
violet are two contrasting colors.

ART LINK
Yellow and violet are contrasting colors. They lie opposite each other in the color wheel. When art elements in a design
are opposite to each other the color wheel. When art elements in a design are opposite to each other they show
contrasting effect.
Aside from colors, lines, shapes and textures can also be used to achieve contrast in a design. These elements
can have different dissimilarities.
Study the following:
a. Contrast in colors : light and dark values like white and black, pink and red, yellow and violet
B. Contrast in lines : thin and thick lines, straight and crooked lines
C. Contrast in shapes : big and small shapes, shapes with sharp and smooth edges
D. Contrast in textures : rough and smooth textures, hard and soft textures

Work these out

Activity 1

In each box, draw two things that show contrast of the given element.

Contrast in texture Contrast in size

Activity 2

Think of a shape that will be in contrast with the circles in the box. Draw it on top of the circles.

WRAP UP
 Contrasting Prints

What you need:

two bottles of tempera paint (use one light and one dark color), oslo paper, water, brush, newspaper sheet

What to do:
1. Fold the oslo paper in halves and open it again. Notice the crease formed down the middle.
2. Spread the newspaper sheet on your work area to avoid making a mess.
3. Use light color tempera to paint one particular shape five times on one side of the crease. It could be a flower, an
animal, a fruit or any shape that is simple and easy to paint. You need to work fast so that the paint does not dry up.
4. Dip the brush in water to clean it. Use dark color tempera to add another simple and smaller shape to your design. Do
this five times. Be sure to paint the shapes on the blank spaces. Remember to work fast.
5. Now fold the clean side of the oslo paper over the painted side and press down firmly.
6. Open the folded paper and see the printed design on the other side of the oslo paper. Notice how the light and the
dark colors create contrasting effect in your design.
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GET SET
Study the tree in this design. Can you see how it’s branches and roots seem to move into different directions?

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The tree in this design is made interesting with the use of similar lines. They are curved lines that spread out from the
main trunk. When similar lines are used in a composition, they create harmony.

Art link

Harmony is when the different parts of a design have similarity, the design shows harmony. Harmony can be
achieved with the use of any of the different art elements. A design can have harmony of lines, shapes, colors or
textures. When you learn to make hood use of these elements in your art work, you will achieve harmony in it.

Work these out

 Activity 1
Find an ethnic design that shows harmony of lines. Draw it in this box.

Activity 2
Find colored pages from old magazines. Cut out small parts of different objects with the same color. Notice how the
shapes will have different but similar colors. Arrange and glue them on oslo paper. Title it, “A Harmony Colors.”

Wrap up
Printing Harmony

What you need:

Oslo paper, green tempera paint, brush, water, newspaper sheet.

What to do:
1. Fold the oslo paper in half and open it out again. Notice the crease formed down the middle.
2. Spread the newspaper sheet on your work area to avoid making a mess.
3. Study the picture of the tree under GET SET. Cover half of it from top to bottom with a piece to paper so that you see
only half of the roots, the trunk and the branches. Study the lines and how they spread out from the main trunk.
4. On the folded side of the oslo paper and using the green tempera, paint half of the tree from the roots to the top of
the branches. Do not copy the one under the GET SET. Draw your own tree. Be sure to work fast so that the paint does
not dry up.
5. Now unfold the paper and fold it once more but this time place the clean side of the oslo paper over the painted side
and press down firmly.
6. Open the fooled paper and see how the other half of the tree is printed on the paper making the image of the tree
complete. Notice how the roots and the branches of the tree create harmony.

Rubric
You will need to make a copy of this rubric for each of your project in Unit III. You can have it photocopied or
simply copy the rubric on a piece of paper. Be sure to label and keep all your rubrics in a folder.

Rubric for Evaluating My Project

These are three areas to evaluate in your art work. Read the descriptions in the three columns for each area.
Check the on that describes your work.
Write the number of checks you have for the following:

Did you fall in some areas? ________________________________

Why? ____________________________________________________________________

What can you do to improve your work? ________________________________________