Middle School lessons 

surrealism + printmaking

Teaching intaglio doesn’t have to be as scary as it sounds! At Gorham Middle School (Gorham, ME), I taught a lesson to 6th-8th graders all about combining personal photos and stock photos to create a Surrealist print.
Students learned:

-History of Surrealism and associated drawing techniques
-Digital manipulation
-Photography
-Drawing from observation
-Intaglio printmaking
-Watercolor! (the fan favorite)

troubleshoot before it happens

  • Looks good!

  • Not wiped enough

  • Ran through the press twice without new ink

  • Wiped too much

  • Paper too wet

  • Wet wiping cloth

click to view pdfs of my instructional materials:

  • Snake Eyes

  • Pollution

  • Zach Cena

  • Hammerhead Shark

  • Splash of Color

  • Inverted Destruction