Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Kinders explore nature and printmaking

The Kindergarten class went outdoors on a mini fieldtrip and explored trees.  We discussed the parts of trees and then picked a variety of leaves.  Once we returned back to the art room, we investigated printmaking.







Students were introduced to vocabulary such as brayer, plate, ink, water soluble and palate.  Students watched a demonstration on how to pull the ink down into the palate, charge the brayer (load it) with ink, apply the ink to the leaf and create a print.  Students learned they could reuse the inked leaf after they pulled it from making a print and create a second leaf print, that was a little fainter, also called a ghost print.




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