Art 3: Wood Block Prints; Art 1 Self Portraits, Plaster Masks

Art 3: Wood Block Prints

Students started off with a piece of wood and used a gouge to carve a design into that piece of wood. Once the carving was complete, students inked their blocks and then printed their designs. Students also signed each print in the correct printmaking format. Students did one, two, and three color prints, which is very hard to do! Each time you want to add another color to your print, you must carve an area of the wood out, re ink your block, and perfectly align your block on top of a previous print! The level of difficulty for a three color print is extremely high! As you can see, these students excelled at this art form!

Brittany Gonce

Danielle Roberts

Leslie Shuck

Katheryn Woodard

Natalie Heng

Art 1: Plaster Masks

Students used plaster gauze and a face mold to create these plaster masks. The gauze had to be completely submerged into water and then formed onto the face mold. Once the plaster was dry, students painted their masks and then finished them with Mod Podge!

Art 1: Self Portraits

Students had their picture taken and then created at 1" x 1" grid on their picture. On their project paper, they created a  2" x 2" grid. Students matched each square on their picture to the correlating square on their project paper. This technique helps students get the proportions correct!

Art 2: Watercolor Paintings

Before starting this project, Art 2 students researched various watercolor masters. Students also practiced 8 different watercolor techniques: graded wash, wet-in-wet, salt on wet, rubbing alcohol on wet, plastic wrap on wet, straw splatter, crayon resist, and dry brush. They were required to use at least three different techniques in their paintings!

Art 1: Printmaking

Art 1 students created both one and two color relief prints. This is a very tedious process! A two color print requires a lot of attention to detail as the plate has to be lined up perfectly when you print the second color. Students executed this process very well.

Art 3: Oil Paintings

All 5 Art 3 students got to experiment with oil paint for the first time this past week. It was fun watching them learn the medium and their paintings turned out awesome!

Natalie Heng

 Leslie Shuck

Katheryn Woodard

Brittany Gonce 

Danielle Roberts