Dot Day Art Lesson: Printing!

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We are formally again in college and in full swing! Our first times of artwork had been used printing dots immediately after looking at The Dot! We made use of Gelli-Arts plates to print our dots because I observed that I experienced about 20 model new spherical plates in my storage closet (wow, the matters you find when you clear). Here is the online video I developed for my college students:

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Now I know lots of of you don’t have people Gelli Arts plates (and they are a bit pricey) so…I came up with an substitute for you: pie pans from Dollar Tree! I am applying the pizza pie pans here:

All over again, if you can not see it, here it is.

1st quality as a result of fourth had been printing which usually means I had drying racks brimming with artwork. So a way to maintain up with almost everything was clipping dresses pins with the teacher’s names on them between the classes on the drying rack. When dry, the clips ended up employed to maintain the artwork alongside one another. I know…every single now and then I have a decent thought.

Just after two 30 minute artwork classes of printing, my students appeared at all of their prints and picked their fave for display. They then experienced to give their piece a title and ‘sign it’ like Vashti so it could be exhibited in the hallway. Listed here was a video I designed to explain this process:

Want far more Dot Working day enjoyment? Effectively, below is a simple a single-working day exercise I designed as a sub approach a pair of a long time in the past. Sheet integrated: