8 Innovative Printmaking Shortcuts & Hacks to Simplify Your Art Lessons

Are you a busy art teacher juggling tight budgets and minimal prep time? If so, this series is just for YOU!

Welcome to the Art of Education’s Art Room Hacks—round 2! Join Chris Hodge, a secondary art teacher in Illinois, for all things printmaking and hacks to make teaching printmaking so much easier. Plus, stay tuned for a fun art lesson idea using eraser prints!

Watch for these printmaking hacks to save you valuable time and resources:

• Use acrylic glass instead of copper plates.
• Register prints with clipboards.
• Transfer designs with tracing paper.
• Print from non-traditional surfaces.
• Repurpose old prints by drawing back into them.
• Hang prints from a clothesline system to dry.
• Print on recycled book pages.
• Pre-ink the plate to easily visualize progress.

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