First Grade Incised Printmaking – Wild Things with Texture
Lesson Focus: Artists are inspired by lines, shapes, textures, and patterns found in their environment.
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Students carving through a drawing onto a styrofoam tray. |
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We began this lesson by drawing “Wild Things” inspired by the illustrations by Maurice Sendak for his book Where the Wild Things Are. We focused on how the artist used lines to represent different textures on the wild things: short and long straight lines, wavy lines, curly lines, and dots. Students designed their own “wild thing” using lines to describe different textures. Later on we will watercolor these drawings.
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We made a practice print so that we could learn the process of printing:
- rolling out the ink with a brayer on a tray;
- listening for the “kissing” sound that indicates that there is enough ink on the brayer, but not too much ink;
- rolling the brayer across our printing plate;
- placing a piece of paper on top of the printing plate;
- rubbing the paper all over;
- and then pulling off the print
Students drew just the outline of their wild thing on a piece of paper the size of their printing plate and traced through the paper onto the Styrofoam printing plate. The paper was then removed and students added texture to all parts of their wild thing. Finally, students printed their wild thing on construction paper.
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