Kindergarten Snowflake Printing

Kindergarten Heart Printmaking

Kindergartners made heart prints for Valentine's Day.  We used styrofoam printing paper and printing ink.  Here are the steps:

1. Draw a heart on the styrofoam and decorate it using ball point pen.

 

2. Cut it out

3. Roll ink on the stamp using a brayer

4. Press down to print on white paper

5. Peel to reveal your print

Heart printing

Kindergarten artists used toilet paper rolls to print hearts to celebrate Valentine's Day.  Can you feel the love? 

Collograph Printing

Third and fourth grade artists learned about collograph printing.  Collograph comes from the french work for glue, colle. Can you think of another art term that has the same root?  

Each student created a plate based on a nature word.  We used a combination of natural objects and found or recycled materials to create our plates.  Through much trial and error, we discovered that we had the best luck with printing our plates when using damp paper and acrylic paint.  

Stay tuned to see how third and fourth graders integrate these prints into some writing around their nature words.  

Collograph plates 

Collograph prints 

Endangered Species Linoleum Block Printing

Fifth and sixth grade artists chose different endangered species for our linoleum block printing project.  This ties in with their classroom studies of ecosystems, environment and global warming.  

Carving the block

Printing 

Leaf collages

Here are our collages made by first and second graders from our leaf rubbings and leaf printing. 

Linoleum Block Printing and Repetition Tutorial

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CiSjsnEUEYYpMzBB4XDcqjFEfVMqJoaElRpHeAPOjrU/edit?usp=sharing

Leaf Printing and Leaf Rubbings with Watercolor Resist

Bubble painting

Kindergarten artists made bubble print paper by blowing bubbles in soapy water with paint added. 

West African Adinkra Symbols

This year's Artist-in-Residence was Jeh Kulu, a West African dance troupe.  They worked with all students at our school to teach West African drumming and dancing.  

Fifth and sixth grade artists learned about the Adinkra symbols found in West African art, particularly in textiles from Ghana.  Students chose a symbols with a meaning that spoke to them.  We used foam paper to make stamps, then used traditional print-making techniques print the stamps.