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Types of Printmaking: Stamping Collagraph (Creation of raised textured surface of found objects) Relief Printing (Styrofoam, rubber, linocut) Reduction Print (Multi color through successive cutting) Monotype Stenciling Stamping: Stamping Materials: Found Objects Construction Paper or Other Paper Paint (Blick block printing paint was used, make sure the paint is opaque) Lorzon Craft Ink Pad Paper Plates Paper Drop Cloth or Newspaper (as table cover) Find objects of all texture

Materials Explored: Photopea, a free online photo editor that is about as close as you can get to Adobe Photoshop in layout and ability without needing a paid subscription to a software I used my   iPad Pro 13-inch M4 as my tablet for Photopea, so students would need a tablet of some sort to draw to use it. XD Pen drawing tablets would be a great alternative for the classroom that's cheaper than a Wacom tablet https://www.photopea.com/ Process: I focused on editing, combining

Materials Explored: Digital photography with iPhone and iPhone editing settings Using found objects, especially as a subject for photography Process: As a class we all chose a few personal objects we had on us or in our backpacks and assembled them a certain way in front of us. Then we went around the room and compared what we could learn about each other with what objects were chosen and how they express ourselves. This is what we used for "found objects" or objet trouve" as

Restaurant Lesson Plan   Group Project Planned By Sadie Carfagno, Noelle Cooper, Kayley N ewlon In our textbook Exploring Studio Materials, Teaching Creative Art Making to Children  by Mary Hafeli, we learned many different strategies for building a lesson plan and incorporating differentiated learning. One suggestion was to create a "learning menu" of activities. This is where you plan a series of activities that build on each other in 3 parts or "courses" and students get

Materials Explored: Glues: Elmers Glue Bottle Liquitex Acrylic Gloss Medium Elmers Glue Sticks Hot Glue Liquitex Acrylic Matte Medium Plaid Sparkly Hologram Modpodge Surface: Construction Paper Printer Paper Main Collage Material:   Magazines Construction Paper Newspaper Tissue paper Paper Streamers Paper Scraps Fabric Scraps Found Objects Process: I tested each glue type for it's ability to: Stick Transparency once dried How much it warped the material How well it works as

Materials Explored: Golden Open Thinner Liquitex Fluid Retarder Liquitex Gloss Medium Golden Soft Gel Semi Gloss Golden Soft Gel Gloss Liquitex Matte Varnish Liquitex Gloss Varnish Pebeo Drawing Gum Control: acrylic paints blended without any mediums Process: I used cyan, magenta, and yellow Liquitex Biobased Acrylic as my 3 pigments to mix into a color scale to test how well the paints blend together with all the different acrylic mediums Red blue and yellow are usually used

Material study with acrylic paint Materials Explored: Ohuhu Metallic Acrylic Plaza Studio Series Acrylic (lightfast) Blick Studio Acrylic (lightfastness: 1, semi opaque) Liquitex Basics Acrylics (lightfast, semi opaque) Liquitex Biobased Heavy Acrylic (lightfast, semi opaque, professional stain) Golden Fluid Acrylics (lightfastness: 2) Crayola Acrylic Apple Barrel Acrylic Liquitex Soft-Body Phthalocyanine Blue Acrylic (to test how each yellow acrylic mixed) Process:   On a s

Material study with watercolor and tempera paint Materials Explored: Prang Watercolor Marie's Water Colour Tubes Tempera Paint Plastic...

Material study with markers, pastels, crayons and colored pencils Materials Explored: Micron Pen Manuscript Marker Sharpie Posca Marker...

Material study with graphite and charcoal Materials Explored: Graphite Pencils (6B, 4B, 2B, B, HB, 2H) Generals 4B Sketching Pencil Conte...