Materials
Water-based printing ink (dark colors), smooth slabs or styrofoam trays to charge brayers on, 12 x 18 paper (light colors: ivory, white, grey), black and white pencils for signing editions, students' foam plates, 4" soft rubber brayers, newspapers, markers.
Resources
A reproduction of a numbered and signed print from an edition
Students will pull additonal prints from their plates using dark ink on light colored paper stock. Students will sign, date and number their prints.
Display several finished works.
- How does the color of the paper affect the way the way the print looks?
- Which version of your prints do you prefer... the ones on dark colored paper or the ones on light colored paper? Why?
- Find a print in which the artist created different areas of visual texture. How many different areas do you see?
- Find a print in which the environment is especially distinct from the animal? How did the artist achieve this?