Elementary School Art - More drypoint mix media

Japanese 

I just completed a project with another grade five class at St. Martin elementary school that explored drypoint and watercolour (mix media). The theme explored was ancient civilizations.
Students used clear acrylic styrene plates to scratch in their sketches. These had Caligo safe wash etching ink wiped into the lines and using my small table top etching press were printed into 270 gm Maidstone rag paper. After about a drying period of 1 week watercolour was painted into the black and white prints to add in a colour element. Below are photos highlighting the paint application and a few of the black and white prints on boards before colour application.

chinese

Egyptian

Mesopotanian

Roman

Aztec

Chinese

Roman

Egyptian

Greece

Roman

Aztec

applying colour

print on paper in black and white etching ink

beginning process of colour application

Roman

Egyptian