Print Making

 Description- First, we had the chance to learn what printmaking means and how people use this art to reproduce designs and patterns. With a clear idea of what it was all about, we had to familiarize ourselves with different types of printmaking and practice creating prints by using stencils, vegetables, paint, and rollers to see how pressure and layering can affect our creations. After having a good understanding of the process, we got to play around with colors, stencils, and vegetables until I decided to go with snail and butterfly stencils, because it was fun to modify them in order to enhance my prints. In addition to that, I also tried out other vegetables, such as broccoli and peppers, which helped me gain experience and come up with something new. Since we experimented a lot to find out what we really liked and what would produce the desired results, I gained valuable experience and practiced a great deal before coming up with my prints. In the end, we glued our favorite prints on construction paper and added a couple of sentences underneath each of them. 

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Extension Activity- One way that this lesson can be extended is by having students design an entire series of printmaking designs on one topic, such as nature, under the sea, or seasons. They can use different techniques, including stencils, vegetable printing, and layering, to create a number of prints based on one central idea. In order to further expand this lesson, students could sketch out their design ideas prior to creating them, play around with color combinations, and concentrate on making a series of prints, rather than individual prints. As a final step, students could write a brief artist's statement regarding their series and the technique used.