Mrs. Edwards art class
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      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Color wheel assignment
      • Brazoria county fair
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      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Zentngle boxes
      • Hands and collage
      • Scratchboard
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    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Where are you from?
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor botanicals negative and positive
      • limited palette acrylic painting >
        • monochromatic
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Dynamic Hands
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Children's' book illustrations
      • Independent study #1
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Ceramics
    • trivets
    • Ceramic shoes
  • Sculpture
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Cardboard everyday objects
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Big heads
      • Plaster forms
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Deconstruction project
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Calendar assignments
    • Writing an artist statement
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • 3D AP >
      • 3 D criteria
    • Previous AP works
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
  • Sketchbook Warm Ups
  • Where are you from?
  • VASE artwork
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Block Printing

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This is a soft linoleum block for printing. Think of this project like you are creating a stamp.

You will need to get a book from the library or one you own. You are going to illustrate the content of the book so you want to make sure it is a book you like and understand.
You cannot pick a book with pictures. This is you illustrating the content, not redrawing something someone else has done.

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Draw out your illustration
  • You must have the following:
  • Foreground, mid and background
  • A border, this is so the carving has a place to stop.
  • Clean lines, the more complicated the drawing, the more complicated the carving.

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Trace your block and draw the final draft on the paper. This is a piece of printer paper that I will give you. 

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Flip your final paper and use a graphite stick or a dark graphite pencil and fill the back of the paper. 

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Place the final draft on top of the linoleum, make sure it lines up with the square you traced.
Use a dull pencil, sharp pencils will pierce the paper.

If you wish to not do this part, you can freehand the drawing directly onto the linoleum. 

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Check to make sure the graphite is transferring but DO NOT remove the paper completely until the tracing is done. 

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Once you have transferred the drawing, go over the lines with a pen.
Place X's where you are going to carve

​I changed drawings to something more intricate. 

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Use the thin liner tool to outline the project. Progress to bigger blades as needed for various effects.

Tool tips:
Never use the carving tool where you are carving towards your body, always carve away from yourself. 

Do not place your hand in front of or in the path of the blades direction. If the blade slips, it will go into your hand and cause damage. 

These are sharp objects that can hurt you so be careful and responsible! 

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  • Home
  • Elements and principles of design
    • The elements of design >
      • Line
      • Shape & Form
      • Value
      • Color
      • Space
      • Texture
    • Principles of design >
      • Contrast
      • Balance
      • Proportion
      • Repetition
      • Emphasis
      • Unity
  • composition how to
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Color wheel assignment
      • Brazoria county fair
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Zentngle boxes
      • Hands and collage
      • Scratchboard
  • Painting
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Where are you from?
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor botanicals negative and positive
      • limited palette acrylic painting >
        • monochromatic
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Dynamic Hands
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Children's' book illustrations
      • Independent study #1
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Ceramics
    • trivets
    • Ceramic shoes
  • Sculpture
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Cardboard everyday objects
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Big heads
      • Plaster forms
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Deconstruction project
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Calendar assignments
    • Writing an artist statement
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • 3D AP >
      • 3 D criteria
    • Previous AP works
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
  • Sketchbook Warm Ups
  • Where are you from?
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me