Art 1 students at Old Orchard Beach High School are working on a literacy themed printmaking project! Last week I gave a slide show and lecture on the history of printmaking and then introduced the criteria for the assignment:
1. Choose a school-appropriate quote from a book that means something to you.
2. Choose at least one word from your quote to incorporate into your relief or monotype.
3. Design and carve a relief block that reflects the ideas, themes, or imagery present in your quote.
4. Design and create a gelatin monoprint that reflects your chosen quote and incorporates your relief print.
1. Choose a school-appropriate quote from a book that means something to you.
2. Choose at least one word from your quote to incorporate into your relief or monotype.
3. Design and carve a relief block that reflects the ideas, themes, or imagery present in your quote.
4. Design and create a gelatin monoprint that reflects your chosen quote and incorporates your relief print.
After students finished sketches inspired by their chosen quotes they transferred them onto the Easy Cut blocks.
Once the image was transferred, students began using gouges to carve their relief blocks.
After students finished carving their relief blocks they prepared brayers and water soluble block printing ink.
They then added the prepared ink to their blocks.
And they made beautiful prints!
Here is my example. It was a lot of fun! I hadn't carved with Easy Cut since I was in middle school.
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