Friday, December 14, 2012

7th & 8th - Printmaking

7th & 8th have spent the last several weeks on a printmaking project. We centered this project on the Quaker SPICES that we uphold at our school -

Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, & Service

Students spent time brainstorming in the sketchbooks visual images that they associated with these concepts and sketched several ideas. They were encouraged to look deeper at the role that each of these plays in their own life and select one of the SPICES to focus on. Students used the iPads to search visual references that would later inspire their work.

After a series of sketches, students refined their drawings to a completed image that they transferred onto our printing blocks.



In their sketchbooks, students used markers to clearly label the positive and negative space - the negative space being what they would later carve away.



Carving the blocks.



Thanks to the wonderfully easy-to-clean surface on our Art room tables, we rolled the ink directly onto the tables... which was a big hit.



When ink was rolled out and made that magic "clicky" noise, it was rolled onto the blocks.



Printing!!! Ohh the color possibilities are endless!!!



We experimented with a variety of colored papers and inks. Students will each select 4 of their finished prints to hand in.


Critique on Tuesday!


Here are a few finished prints!




Caitlin



Christopher




Ellie



Jessica



Kailey

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