Friday, February 27, 2009

Printmaking

Students spent two weeks learning about printmaking. We watched several YouTube videos about printmaking to understand the different kinds. Students were told they would be creating a relief print with a partner. One partner was required to create a design with curved lines, and the other partner had to create a design with straight lines. Both partners started with a sketch and traced it. The traced drawing was then put face down on a piece of printmaking foam. Last, students used carving tools to flatten the background of the foam to make the design seem raised.

Everyone's design was amazing and beautiful. Great job!!! I am very proud of you!!

24 comments:

Snippety Gibbet said...

They turned out beautifully. jan

Anonymous said...

1.This one was my favorite because I enjoyed making them and had so much fun with it.Also I thought it was cool.
2.Um maybe getting more colors even through I loved the colors maybe more.Also maybe letting 3 or more people combine theirs.

Anonymous said...

This was my least favorite project because I felt that I needed more time to work and during the carving part I thought I was doing it wrong. My suggestion to Mrs. B would be to please give more time for the project.

Anonymous said...

this was my least favorite project because i didnt really think it was fun and we only got 2 colors to paint. To improve this project, i think, we should get like 2-3 more colors.

Anonymous said...

1.)this is my least favorite project because my project didnt come out very good.
2.)i could improve this project by making a design that goes good with my partners project.

Anonymous said...

I liked this activity because you got to make your own pattern then combine it with another students pattern.I think Mrs.B should let us be able to mix colors then combine our patterns together.

Anonymous said...

This project was my favorite because we got to work in partners and we got to mix our work together. The Printmaking looked very cool when you got the final product. Maybe we could get a couple more colors, but the colors you had were the ones I was goin to use anyways. If we could combine 2 to 4 peoples projects i think it would be funner. This was my favorite project by a long shot and im sure everyone liked it.

Anonymous said...

1.i really enjoyed doing this assignment! it was fun to come up with a random design!putting together eachothers designs is really cool,i loved seeing how each one turned out.
2.i think it would have been nice if maybe more than 2 people could combine their designs and see what turns out!

Anonymous said...

1)this project was my least favorite because i had to carve a foam plate and the tool went through the pplate.
2)This project could be inproved by getting a different meterial to carve the pattern into.

Anonymous said...

it wasn't my favorite but i had fun. it was cool that we got to put designs together it made it turn out even better. i think if we used wood that it would look better. more details needed to be added though

Anonymous said...

This was my least favorite project because my carving on the foam was kind of rough in some places.I think Mrs.B could make this project better by having more colors of paints to choose from.

Anonymous said...

This is my least favorite because I had a hard time carving the styrafoam. I could have made it better by making more shapes and better details.

Anonymous said...

This one was my least favorite because.It was hard to carve the fome.It made my fingers hurt and my elbo.My suggestion for Mrs.B is better tools like spring loaded.

Anonymous said...

this was my favorite beacuse my mom liked it to.Mrs.B could have made it better by doing more than one color.

Anonymous said...

This is my least favorite because it was original. It was kinda boring.My suggestion for Mrs.B would be to give more colors, to make it more interesting, and to let us make whatever we wanted with our partner.

Anonymous said...

This Is my favorite project because ours looked cool and we got to work in partners. My suggestion to make the project better is have different desingns and diffrent colors.

Anonymous said...

This project was my favorite because we got to work with partners and layer our designs with theirs. One suggestion for Mrs. B is to put more together.

Anonymous said...

This was my least favorate beacause we needed more time working on the scraping part.
Mrs. B would makethis better by giving us more time.

Anonymous said...

1.This is my favorite project because I think it was cool how we combinded the paintings.2. I think it would be beter if we used 2 colors on one print.

Anonymous said...

I did not like this because I went through so much trouble in doing it.More colorful colors would make it fun.

Anonymous said...

i liked this project because it came out good.i think it could be better if we used a differnt thing to carve into

Anonymous said...

This project is my favorite because we were able to create our own design and color it anyway we wanted to.I think this would be better if everybody made two by there self not with a partner.

Anonymous said...

this project was my favorite
because it was fun painting them.


It could have been better if i had more colors.

Anonymous said...

This project was my favorite because it let us be creative with our work and how we did it. A way to make this project better is if we had shapes to choose from cause
it would'nt have taken so long with every thing if we shapes to choose from, and last was the matching with outher desgins we should have had more desgins to choose from.