Printmaking: Foam Fish Prints

Grade Level: Elementary K-6

Title: Foam Fish Prints

Topic or Main Idea: Students will learn about Japanese Gyotaku (Fish) prints, then create their own prints using foam plates.

Objectives: Students will learn how to make a relief print using a foam plate. Students will learn the vocabulary of printmaking.

Standards Used: 2.6 Create an original work of art emphasizing rhythm and movement, using a selected printing process.

Materials: White paper, foam plates (purchased through Blick), pencils, brayers, water based printing ink, bench hooks or inking plates, paper towels.

Vocabulary: Print, brayer, relief print, edition, bench hook, Gyotaku.