{"id":1835,"date":"2023-03-15T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:12:18","slug":"colonial-printmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/colonial-printmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Printmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Printmaking&#8211;in terms of printing for newspapers and flyers&#8211;was introduced as another Colonial activity, and students had the opportunity to look at old print type&#8211;the kind that was originally set by hand in large plates to create advertisements and newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType1.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType1-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType2.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PrintType2-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were amazed at how SMALL some of the type was, and they couldn&#8217;t believe that the printing process hadn&#8217;t changed significantly until the last 40-50 years ago when computers made most hand-setting of type unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To try their hand at block printing, students created a small design that featured their initials or their monogram. They started their drawing on &#8220;practice paper,&#8221; and then drew it onto a piece of white paper that was the same size as their &#8220;Speedy Carve&#8221; block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To transfer their image to the soft rubber carving block, they traced their design onto the&nbsp;<em>back<\/em>&nbsp;of their paper by holding the paper up to a window and using a pencil. Then they placed the paper &#8220;right side down&#8221; on the block, and then drew over their tracing on the &#8220;wrong&#8221; side. There was enough graphite on the &#8220;right&#8221; side to transfer the image (reversed, of course) to the block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They used lino cutters to remove any areas that they didn&#8217;t want to print, then used water soluble printing ink rolled on with a brayer to make their small prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-401.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-401.png 307w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-401-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-402.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1839\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-403.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1840\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printmaking&#8211;in terms of printing for newspapers and flyers&#8211;was introduced as another Colonial activity, and students had the opportunity to look at old print type&#8211;the kind that was originally set by hand in large plates to create advertisements and newspapers. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/colonial-printmaking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6,25,377,368,74,284,279,378],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesson-plans","tag-art-education","tag-art-lesson-plan","tag-block-printing","tag-colonial-arts","tag-middle-school-art","tag-printing","tag-printmaking","tag-typesetting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}