Objective:
Design a plate, ink it, and pull a print.

Material:
Polyprint-thin Styrofoam with adhesive sticky back. Raised surfaces will collect ink and print a colored ink on the paper. The pushed down or cut out surfaces will not. They will show the color of the paper that you choose to print on.

Tools:
Ball point pens Nails Paper punch Blunt pencil Use the tools to draw, cut, tear, or punch holes into the material.

Planning Your Design:
Tracing paper --line up if it moves --lettering, easy to reverse. Trace the size of the plate to help you later trace the design on the plate. Use it as a guide to trace design onto plate.

Make Your Design:
1. Cut, tear, draw
2. Attach your pieces to the cardboard base plate on one side.

Print Your Design:
1. Put waterbased ink on Plexiglas or glass.
2. Roll with a brayer until tacky. Roll fairly thick layer of ink on plate. Not too thick or it will fill the drawn lines of your design.
3. Place paper over design. Use brayer, wooden spoon, or baren to smooth paper down.
4. Carefully pull the print paper up.

Sign Your Design:
Number the edition. Destroy the plate with an X. Print the X'd plate.

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