Teachers Play with Plasticine to Make Prints in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This resource demonstrates how simple and quick textural prints can be made using plasticine as a printing plate.

This post follows on from Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Monoprinting Inspired by Goya, Turner and Cornelius in the Education Room.

The session was facilitated by Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

 

Making Prints from Plastacine

Printing with Plasticine 

Following on from exploring Monoprinting, teachers enjoyed the change in scale, back down to a more intimate process. Like Monoprinting, this session relied on an openness to experiment and a ‘trial and error’ approach, to find how to get the best results.

Using plasticine and ink pads, this technique was explored as an accessible and clean printmaking approach, easy to take into the classroom with small groups of children and highly suitable for those working in SEND.

 

Push an Object into the Plastacine

Start by pushing an object into the plasticine.

 

Press the Plastacine onto an Inkpad

Follow on by pressing the plasticine onto an Ink pad.

 

Place the Plastacine down onto the Paper and use a Roller to apply Pressure

Place the plasticine down onto the paper and use a roller to apply pressure.

 

Print Revealed

Reveal the print!

 

Prints

 

String

You can experiment with objects like string…

 

Pressing a Seedhead into Plastacine

Or seed heads and plants!

 

Seedhead Print

Mould the plasticine into different shapes.

 

Altering the Shape of the Plastacine Plate

Layer the prints over each other and experiment with different coloured ink pads.

 

Plastacine Prints

 

Plastacine Prints

Many thanks to the teachers who participated in this InSET training session for sharing their ideas and processes with AccessArt and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Many thanks to Ruth Purdy for her work with SEND and for sharing this process with AccessArt.

Photographs by Paula Briggs.

UK Charity AccessArt created this resource in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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