Curated Video
Make a print profile portrait
Pupil outcome: I can create a print profile portrait. Key learning points: - A print is a picture made by pressing an inked design onto paper. - A print is created by pressing your design onto a soft surface like foam or rubber. - A...
Curated Video
Relief Printmaking
A procedural video showing how to use Scratch Foam to create a relief print. Will also show how to properly use a brayer and ink a plate.
Curated Video
Printing Without a Press
This video will demonstrate how to print a collagraph plate without heavy-duty printmaking equipment.
Curated Video
Creating a Collagraph Plate
This video will demonstrate how to create a collagraph plate for printing.
The Art Assignment
Art + Life Rules from a Nun
Sister Corita Kent was a master printmaker and teacher, and her rules for artists and teachers are legendary - let’s break them down.
Curated Video
Art as Activism: Statements of Democracy
Art is a powerful democratic tool because it can inspire emotion and empower people to take direct action to achieve a social or political goal.
The Art Assignment
Better Know the Great Wave | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's its story? Let's better know the Great Wave.
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
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Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The...
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Overview of the Disasters of War Series by Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya's series of aquatint prints, The Disasters of War are hard to look at. Rather than focus on the bombastics of usual war art, he depicts the suffering of regular people - the starving, assaults, executions. He does not...
Curated Video
Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos Prints
What happens when reason or rationality is asleep and superstitious beliefs take over from science and reason? Francisco Goya explores this and other Enlightenment topics in his Los Caprichos series of aquatint prints. One of the most...
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The Etching Technique of Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya's series of aquatint prints, Los Caprichos and The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) has long been recognized as one of the supreme monuments of European art. How did Goya create these complex aquatint tones?...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Block Printing 101: Linoleum Tiki Carving
Learn the basics of Linoleum Block Printing in this easy to follow video for printmaking beginners.
Curated Video
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking celebrates 30 years of the art of printmaking
The center welcomes visitors to browse the galleries and also observe artists at work or classes taking place in the studios.
Curated Video
Pablo Picasso's lesser-known prints take centre stage in new British Museum exhibition
Over 80 prints by Pablo Picasso are featured in a new British Museum exhibition in London, showcasing his lesser-known work as a printmaker.
Curated Video
One of China's cutting edge artists
Beijing, China - March 19, 2008
1. Wide shot of Red Gate Gallery at top of Dongbianmen watch tower in Beijing
2. View of passing train from top of watch tower
3. Wide pan of inside of Gallery to two of Su Xinping's oil paintings
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British Library
British Library: William Blake's Printing Process
Michael Phillips demonstrates William Blake's printing process, explaining how it relates to his work as a poet and artist. [8:09]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Printmaking
In this video [1:49] learn about the main types of printmaking: relief, intaglio and lithography. Did you know that MoMA offers studio courses online? Check out the list of offerings including online courses on collage and painting...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Lithography
In this video [2:09] find out how artists use the resistance of grease and water to create lithographs. It was originally used to make sheet music. Did you know that MoMA offers studio courses online? To learn more, check out the list of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Courtesan Playing With a Cat
Laura Allen, Curator of Japanese Art at the Asian Art Museum, discusses a monochrome woodblock print of a courtesan playing with a cat from the Grabhorn collection. [1:52]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Works on Paper: Drawing, Printmaking, Photography: Lesson 1
This lesson will explore works of art made on paper. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Works on Paper: Drawing, Printmaking, Photography."