Following paper is a part of a bigger research in the field of didactics of art education and printmaking in primary school. Paper sums up a part of research that deals with feasibility of practising different printmaking techniques in the first triad of primary school. During our research we carried out lessons of art education with the same art field (printmaking) and the same motif (self-portrait). In the first part of the lessons, students learned about selected Slovenian printmakers and their works with the motif of self-portrait. We highlighted the importance of Slovenian art. Through artworks, they learned about printmaking techniques, art terms and motif of self-portrait. In the first part of the paper we present printmaking in primary school, printmaking techniques and operational goals concerning the field of art education, as dictated by the curriculum (Učni načrt, 2011). In the second part of the paper we present results of the survey in which students had to show preference for either printmaking technique or for motif of self-portrait. We also present short description of printmaking techniques that we performed in class. Results of the research show that, in the first triad, it is possible to perform the printmaking techniques that are presented in the curriculum and also techniques that are somewhat unknown and unusual, experimental. In most cases, students didn't have any problem understanding the technical process of making a matrix, understanding the print and the principle of mirror image.