This month Ms. Lisa taught the class printmaking. We learned about Hokusai, and located Japan on the map.
 
We learned that he is most famous for his series of prints called "Thirty-Six Views of Mounth Fuji. "
This is also one of his famous paintings called "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa." and this technique of printing is what we learned today.
First we began with a piece of styrene, Lisa got us all chopsticks to use to draw our pictures into the styrene..(Keeping with the Japanese theme and all -so clever I might add.) So we drew our pictures in the styrene the lines with paint.
  Then we used a hand roller to roll over the print.  Above is the styrene with paint. Below is the print once transferred it is reversed-it looks more abstract butI was still pleased with the effect. Here is DD's print. The ink smeared a little. But I thought it was good. I'm guessing now it matters which way you roll it.  | 
Oct. 6, 2007 - Art
Lisa~ a lap book ring person *Ü*
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