Lesson #3: Transferring our Drawings to the Styrofoam Plate
Part of the unit: Creating an Animal Print |
LESSON
Materials
9" x 12" scratch-foam sheets, animal drawings, pencils, ballpoint pens, implements of different thicknesses, masking tape.
The students will place their sketches over foam plates and anchor them with small pieces of masking tape at the top and bottom edge to prevent slippage during transfer. They will trace over the sketches using a ballpoint pen. After the basic outline is transferred, students can draw the details--textures and patterns--using various implements directly onto the foam plate. As a final step, drawing over their indentations with ballpoint pens will enable the students to see clearly the marks they are making on the foam.
- Did you encounter any problems transferring your sketch to the foam plate? If so, what were they?
- How might you change what you did?
- What might be the next step in the printmaking process?