Project Description:
Students will create a book of emotions by using printmaking with markers on plexiglass to illustrate a time that they have felt an emotion.
Essential Understanding:
Artists draw inspiration from memories and emotions by letting them influence the colors, shapes, and patterns used in their artwork.
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Students can create artwork that represents emotions.
Key Concepts:
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Expressions
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Emotion
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Color
Skills:
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Printmaking
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Visually representing emotions
Art Focus:
Experimenting with a printmaking technique to make different marks.
Literary Focus:
Students are using art vocabulary to describe artworks.
Documentation
In this project, students used a printmaking technique that transfers markers onto paper. They created prints to illustrate a time when they felt an emotion. Illustrations included depictions of anger, happiness, sadness, frustration, and fear. Prints made using the quick printmaking process by students are shown in the photo below.
Through this printmaking process, many discoveries were made by students. The videos below illustrate the thought process of students while making art.
The first step to this process is to draw on the plexiglass. The student shown in the video below on the left discovered that you can mix colors on the plexiglass to create a new color. He first added orange and colored with yellow on top. The student shown in the video on the right also discovered something about color. She discovered that mixing all of the colors would create black.
The students below made discoveries about mark-making. The student shown in the video on the left discovered that they could make a "smudgy" look by wiping the plexiglass with a soggy paper towel then drawing on top. The student shown in the video on the right also used a soggy paper towel but in a different way. "I put my wet cloth on it and then I pushed down super hard with marker and then when I pull it off it came like that."
After drawing on the plexiglass, students experienced the magic of printmaking by revealing their prints. The students' prints below shows interesting marks made with water. The student in the video on the left describes, "I just put some more water on it then I just pressed it down." The student on the right explains that "the colors mixed up. The water from the paper because all the water didn't come off."
After experimenting with this printmaking process, some students started creating the pages from their emotion books. Below shows a student thinking about what she will draw for sadness. "I was sad when my pet died."