Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop proficiency with a range of printmaking techniques and media
- Evaluate the potential for new approaches to printmaking based on capabilities of techniques already used
- Adapt or introduce new tools, equipment and materials to achieve different effects
- Extend the capabilities of printmaking techniques through experimentation
- Take account of the safety and sustainability considerations for different techniques and media, including permanence and archival issues
- Develop ideas for printmaking
- Articulate creative and other goals for printmaking work
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches from other practitioners with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Apply knowledge of different printmaking techniques to inform ideas
- Allow techniques and ideas to work together to inform each other
- Consider the professional potential and other criteria for work when developing ideas
- Refine and confirm ideas based on experimentation, research and collaboration with others
- Organise printmaking resources
- Assess specific resource requirements for the chosen work
- Research and access potential sources of supply for printmaking resources
- Determine output standards for the finished prints and respond accordingly
- Evaluate cost and other constraints that impact on the development of work
- Evaluate and respond to presentation considerations for finished prints
- Set up or coordinate resource requirements according to safety and other workplace requirements
- Create finished prints
- Create prints, using techniques and media selected from research and experimentation
- Review and refine ideas and approaches based on ongoing experience with the production of work
- Use safe and sustainable work practices throughout the production of prints
- Document and record the development of the work and the research and ideas that inform it