Printmaking!

We are just finishing up a really fun printmaking unit in class! Students gained experience making the following types of prints: a monoprint, a collagraph, and a relief print. Students created a monoprint using shaving cream and liquid watercolor (see VIDEO below if you're curious!). Their collagraph was created with leaves that we gathered as a class. Students created a symmetrical design, which they then carved into soft-carve linoleum for their relief prints. The design they carved was 4 inches by 4 inches. Students printed their design 6 times to fill their monoprint paper. They learned that, when printed repeatedly, a symmetrical design can build a larger symmetrical design.