We had a fantastic time visiting The Ark Cultural Children's Centre in Dublin to collect our award. There were 23 schools from all over the country getting an award. We had a display of our work in print. Other schools had displays too and it was very interesting to see all the different things that they were doing. We all had a different activity for an hour before the awards started. We were involved in the Dance activity.
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After all the excitement of creating aliens we returned to lino printing on our production line. Children's voice: "This is cool but it takes a long time to do" "The print changes if you try it three or four times, even though the design is the same, the amount of ink on it makes it different." "You have to be careful but when you are finished its worth it. It will look really good in a proper frame." Children's Voice: We have lots of rolls of paper in school. We decided we could design our own wallpaper using print. We experimented to see how we could do it in groups of three. We looked at colour and pattern. Repeating a pattern looked good. We said that if you make it too messy and complicated it might not be nice. If you have wallpaper in your room you have to look at it a lot. It needs to be nice to look at.
Here are some of our designs. One of the simplest methods of printing is the fold over technique usually resulting in butterfly-like images. We did a variation on this by painting our names in cursive writing along a fold in the paper and then folding it, pressing it and on opening revealing an unusual pattern which the children thought looked like aliens. This resulted in experimenting with marbling and other techniques to create the surface of the planet from which the aliens came. This exercise inspired some creative writing... Symmetrical prints become "aliens"Below - marbling - "alien planet surface"Children's Voices: "We had a long chat about printing. We talked about all the different kinds of printing you can do. We brainstormed it - stencilling, stamping, fingerprints, hand prints, leaf prints, lino prints, marbling, printing with fruit or food or potatoes or things we found around the school or the house, printing on the computer. " "Next we talked about all the places we see print, which is everywhere really. We made a word web of them. We see a lot of print at home on curtains and wallpaper and carpets. All these things made of paper and fabric are called furnishings. Print is used on a lot of furnishings. There is as much print in school because we don't have as many furnishings there." "Teacher asked us about a name for our print project. We decided to call it a factory like Andy Warhol. We have all the stuff we need for printing on a line of desks in the corridor. It looks like a little factory. David said Knockconan Print Factory Incorporated. Initials would be KPFI. We all agreed with that" The production line at the "Print Factory"Children's Voices:
"Lino printing takes a long time. You have a lot of work to do before you get to print at all." "You really have to concentrate on what you are doing but if you are careful you will get a really good print." "The print looked better using the black ink. It was very clear when it was black and white" "This was the hardest kind of printing we did but I think it was cool." Senior infants and first class fancied a bit of print work themselves when they printed flowers on to their paintings.
"We painted a vase and leaves but we printed the flowers on top" Children's Voices
"We used our computers to create a picture and then we copied it and printed it again and again. Teacher showed us prints by Andy Wharhol. He used a camera and then he went back to his workshop which he called "The Factory" and then he made prints. Sometimes he changed the colours so that each print was a bit different." "The good thing about using the computer is that you can go back and change what you have done. " "This would be a really good way to make wrapping paper or design your own wallpaper." "We used Microsoft Paint for this job. It was easy one you made your first print and copied it. It think a lot of things with print on them these days are done on computer but its just another kind of art" "You can save your work with one name and then you can open it, give it another name and make a different one out of it if you like." "The colours are really bright but sometimes when you print it out it doesn't look as good." "I love the ice cream one - it makes me think of the summer holidays" "Kians cheese print looks tasty. It looks like cake with cherries and berries and nuts inside." "The football print looks like a duvet I used to have" These prints are by Kian, Mia and David. Children's Voices: "We have been doing some experimenting with printing. We got special print paint and rollers and paper. We put the paint on plastic paper called acetate. We used lots of different things for printing including our fingers, sponges, hessian, stampers and shapes. " "I liked rolling out the printing ink on the plastic. It was squishy. It feels different to the paint we usually have." "I like making the mono-prints" "Printing is easy but its a bit messy" "We had lots of different things to print with. You can print with nearly anything. You can print with your fingers or your hands or even your feet! You can mix and match different prints and colours but I like the plain ones the best. They look better when you hang them up on the wall." Children's Voices:
"Teacher showed us some things that had a nice printed design on them. The designer was called Orla Kiely. Her designs are on lots of things like mugs, bags, curtains and clothes. Her designs have a lots of leaves in different colours. I think the design would be easy to make with a stamp."Chloe "The design on the mug reminds me of the leaf prints that Mrs Donnelly's room did but on the mug the leaves are in a row and all very tidy and neat." "I have mugs and plates with designs on them at home." |
AuthorWe are the pupils of Knockconan NS in County Monaghan. We have been doing lots of work with PRINT for our creative schools award. Archives
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