Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research printmaking materials and processes
- Research ways that other artists have used different printmaking materials and processes to achieve different effects and identify intellectual property requirements
- Research physical properties and capabilities of a range of printmaking materials
- Investigate how different materials and printmaking techniques best combine to achieve different technical effects
- Investigate safety issues associated with different materials and processes
- Collate and store safety and technical data to meet safety requirements for use
- Determine cost and supply issues for different materials
- Select printmaking materials and processes for exploration
- Seek and participate in professional discussions about characteristics and opportunities of particular printmaking materials and processes
- Evaluate creative and professional opportunities offered by different printmaking materials and processes for own approach to work
- Identify and assess limitations and constraints of particular materials and processes
- Select a particular range of materials and processes that suit own practice
- Integrate printmaking materials and processes into own work
- Explore own new and different ways of working with materials and processes to achieve new effects and desired outcomes
- Challenge and stretch the capabilities and uses of different materials and processes through experimentation on samples, practice pieces or a work in progress
- Proactively identify and resolve technical problems with material use
- Develop own ways of working with materials and processes to create individual style
- Develop a coherent body of printmaking work that shows command of selected printmaking materials
- Use safe work practices for handling materials and disposal of waste
- Manage printmaking materials