ENTRY L

Printmaking

Printmaking was a very fun day in the class. We used a variety of methods to make prints. It was really interesting to explore the different ways to create art in a way that it could be reproduced. I don't think that there was anything that I would change about the ways in which we conducted these excercises, except to adapt them to the appropriate age group of the students that I would work with in the future.

Bubble print making

• 3 containers of bubbles with paint colors dilluted in them.
• Blow bubbles in tray and then lowered the paper into the bubbles.
• The finished project held the shapes of the bubbles and was really fun.

Soft Carving

• We took a linolium block and used some etching tools to create an image.
• Then we rolled on paint and printed it onto paper

Etching on foam

• Using a stylus, we created an image on foam board by depressing the foam.
• Then we covered the foam board with paint and pressed it on our paper.
• We then burnished the foam to ensure adequate transfer of the paint.

Veggies

• using veggies cut in cross section,
• we dipped the veggies in paint
• then we transferred the image of the veggies onto paper.

Eraser

• Similarly to the soft carving, we etched an image into and eraser
• then we covered the eraser with stamp ink or with colored markers
• then we printed patterns on paper with our new stamps

Colo-graphs

• using random pieces of foam and paper we created a raised surface on a piece of cardboard.
• then we painted the raised surface
• and printed it on a sheet of paper.

Monoprint

• I hand painted generously on a piece of plexi glass
• then placed a piece of paper on top to create a single print.

Marble print

• in a large tub I squirted a large pile of shaving cream.
• then I applied some liquid watercolor paint to the cream randomly
• then stirred it in using a hair pick
• then I placed a sheet of paper on top and created some really neat looking prints.

Integration

• students could use the etching technique to create a sample of a newspaper, then they could produce several of them to distribute to friends.
• The soft carving technique could but used to recreate some ancient hieroglyphics of whatever culture the students are studying at the time.
• The students could use the veggie prints to create a larger version of whatever food item they are using. This could be related to health, science, etc.
• Students could create a template using any one the media above to print their times tables or whatever.
• Different shapes could be utilized in the colograph printing to introduce some elementary concepts about geometry.