SCHEME OF WORK: Relief Printing Suite of Lessons - Collagraph

Ideal for GCSE and A-Level students, this scheme of work includes slides for a minimum of four lessons. These lessons could easily be extended for a longer period to further develop observational drawing skills, printing experiments and an optional extension which teaches students how to use digital media to develop their hand made experiments.

Resources required:

• Sketchbooks or cartridge paper
• Pencils
• Primary source images
• String, paper, masking tape, craft knives, or other resources to embellish the surface of the collagraph plates
• Squares of cardboard (for the collagraph plates)
• Button polish or gel medium
• Block printing ink
• Rollers
• Newsprint and a range of papers
• Printing press (optional)
• Spoons (optional)
• Oil pastels
• Water colours
• Photocopier

Additional resources to develop these hand made techniques can be purchased separately. These final slides also come with exemplar work, a step by step tutorial on how to create your repeating pattern using Photoshop, and Photoshop files with the completed layers to use when demonstrating the techniques.