The school involved was North Star Community School in Atikokan Ontario right in the heart of NWO just above the famous Quetico Provincial Park (listed in Rough Guide as one of the Top Ten parks to visit on the planet).
The prints are printed from the surface of scratchfoam plates that were drawn into with ballpoint pen, dissected with scissors, had Graphic Chemical water soluble relief printing inks applied to separated pieces using brayers and were finally reassembled and printed. Students printed the assembled plates both on white paper and onto a pre-printed black square on white paper.
Themes that were explored are Flora/fauna and Nature.
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These are fabulous. Can you tell us a bit more about how you got your students to produce the initial drawings?
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ReplyDeletethanks Kathy
ReplyDeletethe students sketched in pencil their idea. This was then traced onto thin fairly translucent tracing paper. The tracing was placed over the foam plate and taped into place underneath with green painters tape. Students went over the traced pencil lines using ball point pen and pushing through the thin paper into the foam surface. The ink from the ball point pen also helped to define the recessed line image in the foam. Some students drew very small little elements in their rough sketch. I had them trace these onto a clear acetate sheet with a fine line permanent sharpie marker and we used an overhead projector to enlarge the small sketches to fit within the context of a larger square. We taped tracing paper to the wall and projected the image and they traced onto the paper from the projected image using pencil. Then the tracing was taped over the foam plate and redrawn in ballpoint pen into the foam.