Japanese Wood Block Print Making

At art at Maria's today we learned about Japanese wood block printing and then created art on our own plate (following a wave example) (and thanks to Sprouts for donating 'chicken' trays :)) and made a print of it on white paper. I think they turned out so fun! Here's some of the project.

First we 'carved' our picture on the tray with a sharp pencil.

 

Then we painted the tray.

Then pressed it onto white paper.

Lane added extra details with a pencil after he made his print.

Lane's final. I thought it was neat how he left out a square in the middle. I mentioned they might want to somehow work around or incorporate the number/store imprint in the middle of the tray when they did their carving.

I think Rachel did this one. I really liked all of them, especially this one. Like how she made the dots stars. (She told me they were stars.)

I printed mine twice. This was the first time.

This was the second time I printed mine. Interesting how you can get such a different result with same original.

Here's Brooke's. She LOVES to paint.

 

I think everyone had yet another fun day at art at Maria's. I know we did!