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Nov. 18, 2008

Homeschool Art Pro-D Day ~ Lino Block Printing

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Even homeschool moms need to take a Proffessional Development Day once in a while *grin*. Well yesterday our school's art teacher aka 'me' travelled to Quadra Island to take part in a day class with an amazing artist, Richard Calver, and get a crash course in the basics of block printing. I've ran across some really cool lino block prints done by my favorite artists and I have wanted to give it a try for some time, so when the chance arose to be able to learn how, I was there!

Our pre-class homework was to come up with a simple 3.75 x 5 inch drawing that could be printed in 4 different colors. I love Japanese family crests and the above tree trunk is similar to some of them and then I thought that it would be neat to make it with three circular tree tops joining together like a family tree :) And there you have my simple drawing all ready for the first printing.

Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time for us to make four different blocks for each stage of printing, so we used our one block cutting away sections of it each time before we reprinted it with a new color.

Until all that was left was my tree trunk and border :) I actually like the trunk all by itself to and did a bunch of black and white prints of just it to *grin*.

This is one of my final prints. I did 6 in total plus one on fabric to see how that worked out. It's a very limited edition. LOL. We experimented with different amounts of pressure to see how the colors would blend together. Above I used a lighter touch on the leaf area so that the yellow would show through the greens and browns making it look more like a fall tree, while keeping the trunk of it solid colored :)

All in all it was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to trying more! K is going to really enjoy learning this as well. See, it really was a Pro D Day.... I'm going to share what I learned. *grin*

Blessings,

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Nov. 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by socalval

What a great craft!!! I love the block painting. I might need to ask you more details on how to do it soon. We did a craft today also... clay.

Hope you are enjoying your week.

Valerie

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