Tuesday, June 10, 2014

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

1 comment:

  1. What a great project. Your students did some nice work.

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