Printing in Art

This week in art the elementary and high school students are printing. Each grade is doing a different form of printing. The Art students do different types of printing every year.

Mrs. Miller has her art class do printing every year. “It's an important part of art, it's a standard art form,” Mrs. Miller said. The high school intro to art class is printing using linoleum block printing. The high school students drew themselves on the linoleum then chose which parts to cut out and which part to leave on. “First you shave chalk into the water then lay your paper in the water then take it out and let it dry,” Rachel White said. Then the students apply ink on there linoleum blocks and print them on the paper.

The first graders are working on their fall mono-printing, which means it makes one print. The students painted their sky then folded the paper over. Next they painted the grass and folded it over. Each time they paint something they have to fold. Their prints are of fall trees.

The second graders are leaf printing. When they make their leaf prints the second graders choose a rubber leaf, then they apply ink to the leaf and print it on the paper.

The third grade students are working on screen prints. The third graders are just getting started with their screen prints.

Styrofoam printing has the fourth graders busy. The kids use a block of styrofoam and carve out their print. They apply the ink and press on to the paper.

Picture of Michelle Pederson

Photo by: Alexis Quail