Monday art elective has gotten off to a great start. Everyone seems to be very excited about the images that they can create through printmaking. Printmaking is a way to “recreate” a drawing many times and each time you can give it a new twist. For instance, you can print on different color paper with different color ink. You can take your image and print it many times on the same paper but each time you print it you change the color ink. Or you only ink up certain parts of your printing plate and then create multiple images on the same paper. What’s the printing plate? It is the surface on which you have created your image, either by cutting in or by building up. In this class, the students are using foam plates (restaurant take-out boxes purchased at Sam’s Club with their sides cut off) and cutting lines into them with pencils, knives, paper clips, anything they can find that will make the mark they want for their drawing. Check out the bulletin board outside the art room for some good examples that the students have created.
Elaine Brandes
Art Instructor
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