Print Making!
 

Print making uses ink. Unlike paint, this will stick to your clothes etc! Also, unlike paint, you only need a tiny amount. We use rollers to roll the ink onto our stencils. You know you have the right amount of ink on your roller when it makes a “kiss” sound, if there is no sound you have too much ink!

Stencils were made by drawing on paper, then tracing those drawings onto pre-cut squares of Styrofoam using a ball-point pen. The ben tip rolls nicely over the styrofoam surface, and doesn’t require much pressure to make indentations.

After the stencil is complete, ink is mixed to the desired colour on a board, and rolled onto the roller at the appropriate thickness. Then, ink is applied to the stencil using the roller.

The stencil is “stamped” onto paper, and then re-stamped rotating the piece so that the inner corner touches its print. See our examples below.

These are some of our finished products

On the same day as Slinkachu we also got to work with clay! We were each given a piece of clay and asked to play with it and create anything we liked.

-We were taught how to cut and handle clay.

– Then we were shown how to mould and create pieces with clay.

-We were also shown how to slip and score the clay to join pieces together.

Majority of the group enjoyed working with clay and created wonderful pieces as seen above.

  Colour Theory

There are 3 primary colours, from which other colours are made by mixing.

We were introduced to all kinds of colour wheels, and then set free to play with mixing.

  Colour mixing explorations

We used the Primary Colours to make other colours, including thought towards darker/lighter shades.

  Make a colour wheel

We decided to make the centre of our piece lighter, and the edges dark. We began with the primary colours, and then worked them outwards towards each other to achieve

  Or in splatter form…

Each group had a very different final product, all showing the colours arranged in a circular pattern.

  Final Product!

On our first day together we worked on Collages.

– First we were given a stack of magazines and asked to rip out anything in our colour (Green).

– Second we were asked to create a monochromatic gradient from light to dark.

– Then we were asked to create a picture out of the monochromatic gradient. We created a tree as shown in the pictures above!

– Then our teacher asked us to create a picture that matched the theme of under the sea!

As a group we had fun working together on the collages. Some of us found the ripping of paper therapeutic and enjoyable. We were giving scissors to cut up the paper but majority of us didn’t bother with the scissors.

It was great having the gallery walk and being able to see what each group came up with for their colours.