This Art and design teacher video supports staff in modelling monoprinting techniques with Year 5 pupils. It demonstrates how to transfer the lines of a portrait onto acetate with ink, before exploring a second technique involving expressive painted marks. The video also explains how to account for the image being reversed during printing and how pieces of paper can be used to prevent selected areas from printing.

The video provides practical guidance on applying a thin, even layer of ink, varying pressure to create different marks and reusing acetate sheets. Teachers are supported in encouraging pupils to experiment with the process, explore expressive effects and respond creatively to unexpected outcomes. Throughout, the emphasis is on developing confidence with monoprinting while allowing pupils to make individual artistic choices.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Art and design painting videos, which support teachers in developing confidence and subject knowledge as they help children explore artistic processes and communicate their ideas through art.

See more of our Year 5 Art and design scheme of work.

• Art and design, Year 5, Painting and mixed media: Expressive portraits, Lesson 4: Painterly printmaking.
• Art and design, Year 5, Painting and mixed media: Expressive portraits.