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Posts Tagged ‘Possibilities in Print’
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
I’m just back from a trip to Syracuse, New York area, where I worked with the students at Manlius Pebble Hill School. I taught 2 bookmaking sessions with 3rd graders in the morning and 2 printmaking sessions with 4th and 5th graders in the afternoon. Fortunately, I remembered to pull out my phone and snag a few shots at the end of the last session of the day! Here are some of the beautiful and diverse monotype prints by the 4th and 5th graders.
We used Crayola brand Artista II washable tempera in magenta, turquoise and yellow. Any additional colors on the paper students created by overlapping different colored plates. The students worked in reductive monotype, inking the whole plate and using tools to remove select areas of the paint.
To make the colors more transparent I mixed the paints with a good amount of Speedball brand Screen Printing Transparent Base. This is the best brand I’ve found to make tempera paints more transparent for printing or painting.
Thank you to the art teacher, Linda McGinley for all her help, and to the students at Manlius Pebble Hill School!
Tags: 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, Manlius Pebble Hill School, Monotype Printmaking with Kids, Possibilities in Print, student outreach
Posted in Elementary School, On the Road, Painting, Printmaking | No Comments »
Friday, May 4th, 2012
We’re in the thick of preparations for a busy month of programming on the road. Next week we’re excited to celebrate National Children’s Book week at three different sites. Thursday I’ll be at Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, MA.
My first program there, Art Studio-to-Go, is for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. I’ll be sharing a picture book and helping young artists make shape collages.
I Am an Artist, for ages 5-8, is all about Eric Carle’s techniques and process.
My final program at Cary, Possibilities in Print for ages 9-12, delves into how picture books are produced and offers a change to make multiple color prints of one’s own.
If you’re interested in learning more about these programs and what else is on slate for children at Cary Memorial Library, click here.
Also next week, Sarah visits kindergarteners in Enfield, CT, and Diana will be at Ashland Public Library. Click here to learn more about our outreach programs for students and check back later when we post about how everything goes this month!
Tags: Art Studio-to-Go, Ashland Public Library, Cary Memorial Library, Eric Carle, I AM an Artist, National Children's Book Week, outreach, Possibilities in Print
Posted in Collage, Elementary School, On the Road, Preschool, Printmaking | No Comments »
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
This is my second post about printing with found materials. To see my first post in this series, click here. This post is all about making printing rolls made with PVC pipes. This is the project for you if you are interested in printing in repeat on a large surface like paper or fabric. Directions below:
I started by spraying Scotch Super77 on the outside of the pipe so I could position the fruit netting and yarn on the surface without it sliding off. Also try any other relatively flat textured found or natural materials to stick to the pipe. Not everything will stick but experimenting is all part of the fun!
I sealed the yarn and plastic netting with two coats of water-based Minwax Polycrylic Gloss (available at hardware stores). The gloss needs to dry completely between coats. Cleanup is easy with soap and water and brushes can be safely rinsed in the sink. An alternative to the Polycrylic is to use any brand acrylic gloss medium available at art supply stores. I prefer to use the Polycrylic gloss from the hardware store because you get more for your money.
Once the second coat is completely dry, the pipe is ready to ink up and roll! Try tempera paints or any water-based printing ink and use a brayer to get the paint into all the nooks in the yarn and plastic netting. See my previous post for printing surface suggestions.
An easy alternative to the process above is to cut out shapes from sheets of adhesive-back foam (available at craft stores) and stick them to the PVC pipe. Try printing multiple colors at once by rolling sections of the pipe in different colors. Mix the handmade printing roll with stamps or drawings or print directly onto a tee shirt or make your own wrapping paper.
The great thing about these printing rolls is they can be rinsed off in the sink and used again and again. PVC pipe is available in different diameters, so you could create an assortment of large rolls and mini rolls. The third and final post on printing with found materials will appear next week, so stay tuned!
Tags: adhesive foam, Possibilities in Print, printmaking with children, printmaking with kids, PVC pipe, roll prints
Posted in Activities, Elementary School, Found Materials, High School, Printmaking | 4 Comments »
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
To prepare for my recent Professional Development workshop, Possibilities in Print, I wanted to make a visual example of printing with found materials to hang in the Art Studio. There’s an unlimited variety of interesting patterns and shapes you can make with materials that are free! I printed with black and red washable tempera paints onto white Smart-Fab™ Disposable Art and Decoration Fabric but you could use any color ink or acrylics and any fabric or paper. Smart-Fab™ is available through Nasco in several different colors and three roll lengths at a very reasonable price. It’s a great alternative to printing on paper.
The first found material I experimented with was a regular 1-liter plastic seltzer bottle after seeing a pin on Rosemary House’s Pinterest board “Prints and Printmaking.” One of her pins lead me to the blog post by Inner Child Fun about making flower prints with bottom of soda bottles. Using Inner Child Fun’s idea, with a foam brayer I inked up the bottom with red tempera paint and stamped the bottle across the fabric.
If you can use the bottom of the bottle, why not the sides too? So using a sheet of adhesive foam, I cut a variety of shapes and wrapped them around the flattest part of the bottle. When inking up the foam try not to get any on the plastic bottle or your print will not be as clear. The tapered neck of the bottle made a good handle as I rolled it across the fabric. When I ran out of ink half-way across and needed to reink, it was easy to look through the clear bottle and line up the shapes to keep the pattern continuous.
Other found materials you could print with:
 Candy packaging
 Packaging from glue stick 12-packs
 The side of a tofu container
 The bottom of various to-go packaging
A new Public Art Project, Prints, Patterns, and Papers starts on March 14 in the Art Studio and is free with Museum admission.
Use your handmade stamp to print a set of beautiful patterned papers while exploring color and design.
What found materials do you keep/collect?
Tags: Possibilities in Print, printing with found materials, printmaking with children, printmaking with kids
Posted in Activities, Elementary School, Found Materials, High School, Infants & Toddlers, Materials, Printmaking, Professional Development | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Yesterday, fifteen educators and art enthusiasts joined me at The Museum for the professional development workshop Possibilities in Print. Some participants were familiar with various printmaking processes and others had little or no experience with the medium. After a slideshow presentation of the many ways we’ve incorporating printmaking into The Studio’s classes and programs, we spent the afternoon rotating through the different printmaking stations experimenting with techniques and tools. In the photo above, educators made their own roll stamp for printing continuously across long sheets of paper or fabric.
Here they used different tools to make patterns on a plexiglas plate and hand printed them. We used primary colors (Red, Yellow and Blue) and overlapped them to create a multi-colored monotype print.
At the station pictured above, participants used handmade and store bought stamps to create patterned papers. Also, small foam plates etched with ballpoint pens could be printed on a pasta machine instead of a traditional large-sized printing press.
At the final station, participants inked large collagraph plates and ran them through The Studio’s printing press on either wet or dry paper. This workshop was a blast to put together and it was rewarding to see the enthusiastic response from all the teachers and artists.
My next Professional Development Workshop, Bookmaking and Beyond will be on Thursday June 28th, 1:00-5:00pm. This class is a companion to my other workshop Handmade Books and Cards. We’ll create even more styles of books for you to make again and again at home or with your students. It’s not yet posted on our website, so in the meantime check this link for upcoming workshops here at The Carle.
 Teachers working together to create a scroll-style book in my Bookmaking and Beyond workshop.
Tags: Possibilities in Print
Posted in At The Carle, Printmaking, Professional Development | No Comments »
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