Artistic Production- Printmaking
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Description
This lesson provides students with a starting point and methods for how to visually represent the social boundary of their choice. Following the introductory lesson on “Breaking Social Boundaries,” students will begin the initial phase of their collaborative project by selecting a social boundary to represent using experimental techniques in Photocopy Transfer. Students will use their prior experience with PhotoShop to manipulate (resize, distort, change the contrast, or crop) the images of their choice.
Objectives
Materials and Preparations
Defining Terms:
Surface - What do you want to do the transfer on? Printmaking paper, unstretched canvas, wood panel, cardboard, a wall or other smooth surface will work
with the photocopy transfer techniques described.
Vehicle – The medium used to transfer an image from one service to the other.
Monotype- A singular, non-reproducable print
Alter or Alteration -to make different in some particular way, to modify the size, style or course of something.
Intervention- to come between disputing people, groups, to mediate, to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder, to interfere with force or a threat of
force.
Manipulation- to manage or influence skillfully, to adapt or change to suit one's purpose or advantage. .
Procedures:
Day 1:
Day 2-3
This lesson provides students with a starting point and methods for how to visually represent the social boundary of their choice. Following the introductory lesson on “Breaking Social Boundaries,” students will begin the initial phase of their collaborative project by selecting a social boundary to represent using experimental techniques in Photocopy Transfer. Students will use their prior experience with PhotoShop to manipulate (resize, distort, change the contrast, or crop) the images of their choice.
Objectives
- Students will understand how artists (contemporary and past) represent social boundaries using symbols, words, and actions to convey political and/or social beliefs.
- Students will identify how representations of social boundaries can reveal a particular point of view, perspective, and/or bias.
- Students will identify the various causes of social boundaries ranging from personal to international and global.
- Students will experiment with various techniques of Photocopy Transfer, resulting in a finished work that represents a social boundary of their choice.
Materials and Preparations
- Computer with Internet and Digital Projector
- Current Newspapers and Magazines (last 3 years)
- Social Barriers worksheet (See Introduction & Resources Page)
- Reproductions of art historical and contemporary examples
- Research computers with PhotoShop for enlarging and changing the contrast of selected images
- Photocopier and/or black toner laser printer
- Etching or heavy printing paper or smooth illustration board
- Tea-Tree oil, Triellina
- Q-tips and barrens or wooden spoon
- Gel Medium or Gesso and Paintbrushes
- Water and Sponges
Defining Terms:
Surface - What do you want to do the transfer on? Printmaking paper, unstretched canvas, wood panel, cardboard, a wall or other smooth surface will work
with the photocopy transfer techniques described.
Vehicle – The medium used to transfer an image from one service to the other.
Monotype- A singular, non-reproducable print
Alter or Alteration -to make different in some particular way, to modify the size, style or course of something.
Intervention- to come between disputing people, groups, to mediate, to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder, to interfere with force or a threat of
force.
Manipulation- to manage or influence skillfully, to adapt or change to suit one's purpose or advantage. .
Procedures:
Day 1:
- Teacher will demonstrate both techniques for making a photocopy transfer and show examples of various stages of the technique.
- Students will practice photocopy transfer technique in order to get the best result on their final designs.
- Students will use the computers and magazines to research and gather ideas for how to express and communicate the social boundary of their choice.
Day 2-3
- Students will continue research, planning, and practicing for their final.
- Students will use PhotoShop to manipulate (resize, distort, change the contrast, or crop) their images before begining the Photocopy Transfers.
- Students will work individually on their final Photocopy Transfer projects.
Gel Medium Transfers
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Tea-Tree Oil Transfers
*Note this technique works best on
less porous or textured surfaces.
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- After transfers are completed students can use experimental mixed media techniques to enhance their designs. It is advisable for student to practice a new technique on their practice prints before altering their final image. Mixed media techniques may include (but are not limited to) adding water color to Gel Medium and coating like a varnish, creating stencils and adding airbrush colors, decoupage lettering or magazine images, adding stitching, drawing on top of transfers with sharpie or oil pastel. These same techniques may be used to alter their collaborative peer’s work in the “Closure Lesson”
- Students will complete their works by giving it a creative title that poetically describes the social boundary or subject of the work. In preparation for shipping their designs, students will document their finished works using a digital camera. The digital image will be a record of their works, because the student receiving the work will manipulate, alter, and intervene on the original artwork.
Enduring Ideas:
1. Ideas and values about people can be social boundaries.
2. As you grow through life your social boundaries change.
3. Social boundaries exist for various reasons in the physical, emotional, and cultural atmosphere in order to create a sense of belonging.
Essential Questions:
1. What are some social boundaries facing students your age?
2. What social boundaries are helpful in culture and society?
3. How has your physical location (or the location of your childhood) created social boundaries?
Closure:
Students will complete one (or more) Photocopy transfer projects that incorporate a variety of images addressing a social boundary of their choice. Students will give their works a creative descriptive title in preparation for the artistic exchange. This is one of two portions of their task; students will receive a grade for the assignment thus far. Upon completion and grading of their final design, prints will be sent to the collaborating teacher and students in Southern Florida; where another student will create a visual and written response to the work.
Assessments:
- Formative Assessments: Teacher will monitor progress on idea gathering and practice photocopy techniques. Teacher will informally assess and discuss student’s understanding of social boundaries and discuss methods of visual communication, connection of ideas and design techniques with each student.
- Summative Assessment: Students will grade their individual projects based on the criteria and rubric. Teacher will grade the completed portion of this project. Teacher will re-grade the final work and assess how well the responding peer understood the message and intentions of the student's original ideas.