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Inovart Presto Foam printing plates are excellent for young and experienced artists to use for wide range of art and craft projects including printmaking, collages, stamping, stencils, scrapbooking etc. -100 sheets per package. These butter soft foam sheets make great printing plates, they require only the slightest pressure to create working impression which eliminates the need for sharp or pointed tools, great for younger ages. Easy to cut into shapes or tear to create patterns and designs. Accepts water-based adhesives, water and oil based paints, markers, and inks. Excellent for stencil making. Can be used to make quick and easy custom stamps!
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These inches 6 inches foam sheets are excellent for young and experienced artists to use for wide range of art and craft projects including printmaking, collages, stamping, stencils, scrapbooking etc.includes lessons and project ideas -100 sheets per package. inches These butter soft inches foam sheets make great printing plates, they require only the slightest pressure to create working impression which eliminates the need for sharp or pointed tools. great for younger ages. Easy to cut into shapes or tear to create patterns and designs. Accepts water-based adhesives. Accepts water and oil base paint, markera, inks. Excellent for stencil making. Can be used to make quick and easy custom rubber stamps.
L
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2024
I bought these to use for an art project with my kids. They are very easy to use and we had a blast making their stamps with them! They turned out so cute and I even made a few prints myself. All you need is a dull pencil to make your design. I highly recommend
Katarina Norris
Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2024
Was exactly what I was looking for! Product is what it says it is and functions accordingly.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2024
Always Love Foam Plates for printmaking!
Rachel V
Reviewed in Australia on July 24, 2023
My students had a fabulous time with this. Worked beautifully with acrylic paint and printing ink. very easy to create designs on just using a pencil.
Grazyna Mackiewicz
Reviewed in Australia on June 5, 2022
Nice and thin, flexible, easy to scratch, cut and use. Can do fine linework and it wears fairly well. Economical for price. The only slight criticism is that there were no instructions on whether to use the glossy or matt side. After experimenting I think the matt side works best.
Kristina W
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2022
Bought for a homeschool community art project. They worked good despite being curved. I put them under a case of book for 2 weeks & couldn’t get them to flatten out.
Heather Brumley
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2021
I've bought this product 3 times now because I've been so impressed with the result. They are thin but I did not have may problems with students breaking or puncturing them while using them. It worked as a fabulous introductory lesson to printmaking for my older elementary students.
Claudia L Gamiño G
Reviewed in Mexico on October 13, 2020
Material de buena calidad, fácil de usar, justo lo que quería.
Grace
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019
I thought this was a great price point. Especially for college students taking art class. It easy to tear, but if you are careful it was all okay. I used it for making foam prints and it went pretty well. We just had to push a little deeper but also ensure that it did not go through. I would recommend for anyone who has budget for college or just wants to try it at home. It is fun to do.This picture is from the usage. I cut out one of the foam piece to create a snowman and one we just pressed it in. It went really well you just have to beware when you are pressing your design in. But overall I think it served its purpose.
AGlover
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018
Was skeptical about purchasing these for my art classes , but they are nice. Arrived flat, not bent. I used one first for a printing plate. No problems. Used it with printing ink and it worked fine. Also used a brayer on it to spread my ink. Worked fine. Would purchase again.
Rebecca
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018
These are super fun! I used to reuse the styrofoam plates brocolli came in, but felt such pressure to get my design just right (I guess we don't eat enough brocolli). I love having abundant sheets, don't have to worry so much about messing up a design. And with brayers and the right printer paint, these are a breeze to use. We discovered a neat trick for printing: instead of spreading out scrap paper to protect your table, just use catalogs, and turn the pages every time you print. Yes, you get paint on every page of the catalog, but who cares, and you always have a completely clean surface to print on, so you don't get ink in all those places you don't want it to go. These are a great price for the amount of headache saved, these have actually turned us onto foam printing (I do this with my 10 and 11 year old kids), whereas before having this product, we were starting to find the craft a little cumbersome.
Mary
Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2017
They were perfect for my purposes.
Mark Anderson
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017
I came across this product recommended in an online printmaking lesson. Classroom budgets are (as always) pretty tight and the block printing product we use is getting more and more expensive. Still, print making is part of the curriculum so I'm always actively looking for ways to do the job on the cheap whenever possible. So here are my observations: (1) This product is waaaaay more economical than the "easy cut" material we use throughout our district. (2) While the easy cut material better replicates the sharpness of line one achieves using traditional linoleum block cuts, the Presto Foam product is a pretty good introductory material. I would rate it as excellent for elementary and middle school levels, and acceptable for a foundations high school art class. (In fact, that is precisely how I'm using it this week.) (3) Due to the economy, it's easier to have an "extra" piece of material if a student makes an error. That's generally not possible when using the more expensive product. (4) I was surprised to see how versatile this product is. I've done foam printing with students in the past using disposable foam plates. Opening this product and discovering it was much thinner than foam plates concerned me - at first. But the foam is dense and takes incised line very well. It also does well with larger reduced areas and shapes. In fact, I may use this as an introduction to the concept of material removal before having high school students work with the expensive stuff. Although I haven't tried it yet, I kind of think this would work for reduction printing. While I'm on the topic of printing, I'll share that this material prints well ... IF you use block printing ink. My experience using tempera was a little dicey and I would think kids would get easily frustrated - you really need a thicker substrate to work consistently well. Thinner inks and watercolor won't work at all...they'll bead up on the smooth, unabraided surface. I even tried some intaglio ink because I had it out at the time, and - meh.From a production standpoint, I found that the best application to the foam plate was using a brayer (as you might well imagine.) A little experience is necessary to judge how much is "too much" and how much is not enough to get a good transfer. I've a Speedball hand press that seemed work very well. Simply rubbing with a spoon was ok. Using a brayer was ok. Using a baren worked best.
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