March 1-5

Current Project: Matisse Cutouts Collagraphs

Journal Project: Relief Print Self-Portraits

• Monday - Friday: Work on printing collagraphs. Choose one of the collagraph prints to turn into a monoprint. When not printing work on your relief self-portraits for your journal entries.

February 24, Wednesday

What you need today: portfolio and journal

Collagraph Printing today: you need to complete the sample prints today!!!

Journal: Glue in your journal, all THREE sample prints. Write at least two sentences about the process for each of the prints. You need a total of SIX sentences!

Block Printing: Work on your linoleum blocks. Do some proof printing by using magic marker on the surface of the block and printing directly into your journal.

ALL COLLAGRAPH PLATES MUST BE COMPLETED AND SEALED BY FRIDAY! WE WILL BEGIN PRINTING ON MONDAY!!

February 22 - 26

Current Project: Matisse Cutouts Collagraphs

Journal Project: Relief Print Self-Portraits

• Monday: Review CLEAN-UP procedures. Discuss how to use linoleum tools and begin making the linoleum blocks. 7 students will print collagraph samples.
• Tuesday: If all students have printed their samples, we will begin printing our collagraphs in groups of 6-7 students. Students not printing will work on their relief blocks for their journal entry.
• Wednesday - Thursday: 7 students will print their collagraph plates. Students not printing will work on their relief blocks for their journal entry.
• Friday: Students will work on their Relief Print Self-Portraits.

FOLDERS ARE DUE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22!

February 19, Friday

What you need today: Folder, journal, pencil

FOLDER CHECK ON MONDAY, FEB. 22!

If you printed a SAMPLE plate yesterday: Today you will glue down each print into your journal and write a reflection for each print. AT LEAST, 2 sentences about what worked and what didn't.

If you are not printing today:

1. Transfer your eye drawing to a piece of SPEEDCUT LINOLEUM using vine charcoal.
2. Trace the vine charcoal with a sharpie.
3. Add an outside frame - be creative.
4. Using the LINOLEUM GOUGES, carve away any negative spaces on your 'EYE' plate. Leave some DIRECTIONAL LINES.

February 16 - 19, Quote of the week

"I passionately hate the idea of being with "it," I think an artist has always got to be out of step with his time." -Orson Welles

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Orson Welles was both an award-winning actor and a director. What do you think "it" is? What is "out of step"?

February 16, Tuesday

What you need today: collagraph plate, brush, mod podge, printing paper, ink

Complete your Collagraph plate. Make sure you have your textures glued down well to the plate.

Seal your Collagraph plate.
Use mod podge to seal everything on your plate. Make sure you cover all the textures with the glue. The glue will dry transparent, but you need to make sure you don't put so much on that it is white. MAKE SURE YOU WASH THE BRUSH OUT COMPLETELY AFTER USING THE MOD PODGE.

Test your plate.
Once your plate has been sealed for a day, then you can make a FROTTAGE, or rubbing of your plate to test it before you print for the first time. Cover the collagraph plate with newsprint and use a crayon to rub across the top of the paper.

Ink your plate.
Apply ink from the well using a dauber. Use sheets of newpaper to rub or buff off the ink. The lighter the ink, the harder is is to show different textures.

Pulling your Print.
Run your plate through the press after lightly misting the paper. Slowly pull the paper from the collagraph plate.

February 10-11, Wednesday & Thursday

Complete your collagraph board so we can begin printing on Tuesday.

Once you have built up your textures, seal them in mod podge and leave it to dry overnight. All of the board must be sealed in order to print the following day.

We will begin a couple of printmaking techniques for our journal assignments while we all printing our collagraphs.

February 8-9, Monday & Tuesday

What you need: collagraph board, textures, construction paper "maquette"

Your project plan made out of construction paper is due at the end of class on Monday. You should be working on your collagraph board by Tuesday.

I plan on the first printings for Tuesday, February 16.

8th period

7th period class

Test

Dana Jung Munson
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February 5, Friday

What you need today -- portfolio, journal

Continue to work on your construction paper "maquette" of your Matisse Project Plan. Your construction paper plan must be approved before you move onto your building your collagragh texture board.

During class today we will print the texture board we made in class yesterday.

February 4, Thursday

What you need today -- Folder, portfolio, something to write with

Quiz today! Then we will demo different textures for our collagraphs.

February 3, Wednesday

What you need today? Folder, pencil or pen, project plan enlargement

We will view a video about printmaking techniques and tools to help us with our next project. Fill out the printmaking terms sheet as you view it. After the video, we will work on creating our project plan in construction paper.

Printmaking Power Point:

Matisse Power Point

This is the power point we watched in class last week about Matisse. You were to take notes during the presentation and had to include a cool title, the hallmarks of Matisse's style, his themes for his cutouts, and draw at least of the shapes from his power point.
Matisse Drawing With Color

View more presentations from Riverwood HS.

Matisse Site

Thanks to Rachel Butler for finding this interactive site about Matisse:

http://www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/sensory/matisse.html

February 2, Tuesday

What do you need today? Notan, Journal assignments, green rubric

Critique Day for our Notan Collages! All notan is due today. We will look over our collages and review the grading rubric as critique our work.

Project Plan is due tomorrow!

February 1, Monday

We are going to put off talking about Printmaking techniques until Wednesday.

Today we will review what makes a Matisse cut-out and what is expected of each student for the project plan which is due on Wednesday. The expectation is for the students work on their project ideas and to use color pencils on the enlargement to help show what will be the same texture for our collagraph plates.
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Quote for the week: An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." - Jean Cocteau

• Jean Cocteau was a French poet and playwright who was friends with many artists who worked in Paris, most notable is Pablo Picasso.
  
• Horticulture is the industry and science of growing plants.