DAE 250 Winter 2024

Art Education Instructor: Terri Cafcalas, tcafcalas@collegeforcreativestudies.edu

Lesson Title: Patterns with Printmaking

Targeted grade Level: 7-8

Anticipated Time Frame: 10 Days

Lesson Plan Rationale

Conceptual Structure/Big Idea: Repeatability Teaching students about patterns is

important for future art making.
Repeatability can also be thought of as
reusing discarded items in order to create
something new.

Key Concepts: (What ideas, facts, and new These key concepts are important
knowledge will the students acquire? List the key because pattern and repetition are both
art concepts that will help students to principles of design. Students should have
understand the big idea as an artist. ) some experience with the principles of
design. This assignment can make
Students will:
connections to some of the principles of
1. Use repeatable designs to create a design more clear for the student.
pattern.
2. Use new tools to create artwork.

Objectives: (what students will DO) This project will have students creating
repeatable linocuts. This project can also
Students will:
help to develop motor skills. Learning how
1. Create unique linocuts. to make and use patterns is a skill that is
2. Learn how to make successful and important to learn. It can also help
repeatable patterns. students to make more aesthetic choices
3. Learn how to safely use supplies. in the future.
Essential Questions: (BIG overarching Using patterns can create something that
questions) is aesthetic, but there is also importance
to breaking patterns. By experimenting
How can patterns be used to achieve a
with patterns students will be able to
successful image?
make aesthetic decisions in relation to
How can you experiment with a design to their own artwork.
achieve varying results?

Standards: Students will safely learn how to respect

and use new tools. They will also need to
NVAS:
make choices about techniques they
ART.VA.I.7.2 Understand the concept of proper use of intend to use.
art materials and using tools safely and responsibly at
an emerging level.

ART.VA.II.7.6 Make knowledgeable choices about

materials, techniques, media technology,
organizational principles, and processes to articulate
ideas and communicate intended meaning at an
emerging level.

Teaching Resources: (artwork, videos, books,

I would use Gustav Klimt and Andy
etc.)
Warhol to talk about patterns and
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repetition. I would use the video as an
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edpuzzle to familiarize students with the
2. Andrea Lauren
process. Andrea Lauren mixes and
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matches lino cuts to create new prints
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which is interesting and could help
3. Gustav Kilmt
students understand how repeatable lino
4. Andy Warhol
prints can become. Rashid Johnson is an
5. Rashid Johnson
artist who was featured at the dia and
uses mixed media in relation to
printmaking.
Lesson Plan Sequence: (4 steps) The students will learn the skill of
printmaking from a stamp. This skill also
1. Visit the Printmaking in the
involves learning how to quickly make a
Twenty-First Century exhibit at the
repeatable pattern. This is the link to the
dia. Have the students select and write
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about one art piece in the exhibit that
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they found the most compelling and
you will be able to see it with this link, so I
how it uses the principles of design.
am sorry if you can’t see it. I also want the
2. Introduce the project and talk about
students to have fun experimenting with
lino prints and patterns. The students
print making and getting creative about
will begin to sketch their designs. I will
what they can use in addition to their
show them how to make a repeatable
linocut blocks. This assignment would
pattern. Assign the ed puzzle as
mostly be assessed formatively because it
homework.
would be based on how the students are
3. Once the students finish their sketches
experimenting with the materials.
they will transfer them onto the
Students would also be assessed
linoleum block or styrofoam. And then
summatively when they turn in pictures of
begin to carve their designs.
their process and final products.
4. Print the designs on various types of
paper. Students will probably have to
share rollers. I will come around the
classroom to provide the ink, so they
won’t use too much ink. After the
students do initial prints they can
 begin to experiment with colors,
negative space, found objects, density
of the prints. Throughout this process
students will need to take pictures of
their final products and their process.
5. After everyone is done with making
prints as a class we can walk around
and look at what everyone has created
and ask questions about them.

Printing with styrofoam can create really

Differentiation/Accommodations/Modificati
interesting results. The only trade off it
ons: This project is very fine motor skill heavy,
has with a linocut is that it can be difficult
so for students who lack fine motor skills they
to preserve.
can use styrofoam. Printmaking with
styrofoam allows the student to just use a
pencil and not have to worry about the
carving tools. Students would also be allowed
to print off references to use in making the
stamp.
Photo of Teacher Exemplar (add when This is my example. In the one with yellow
completed) I experimented with other materials to
make marks with.

None of the supplies are super out of the

Materials/Tools/Art supplies needed:
ordinary for an art classroom. A lot of the
● Linoleum Blocks materials that are specific for this
● Styrofoam technique can be used for a very long
● Carving tools time, so getting them is an investment.
● Pencils
● Printing Ink
● Various kinds of paper
● Rollers
● Smocks
● Gloves
● Glass sheets

Materials Distribution/Clean Up: I decided that it would be better if I

distributed the ink to ensure there is
Students will most likely share glass sheets
minimum waste and so the colors don’t
and rollers. I will come around and distribute
become muddy at a table.
the ink. The students would be wearing
smocks, and they can choose to wear gloves if
they would like. After we are finished printing
the students will carefully wash the glass and
the rollers in the sink. Then the prints they
made will be put on a drying rack.

Evaluation: (Questions to Ask Students These questions can guide the students
After) into thinking critically about the art they
have created.
1. What was your favorite technique
tried when making a print?
2. Do you think your pattern was
successful?
3. What principles of design are present
in your finished artwork?
4. What could you change in the
iteration if you were to do this project
again?