Printmaking with styrofoam plates

First we used cardboard to scrape paint around the paper.
This gave a good base to the paper for our future printing project.

Scraping paint is a very simple form of printmaking and
mimics how a silk screen printer will create a work of art.

We then used cut styrofoam plates to act as our printing block.
Ball point pens worked well to draw "grooves" into the plates.

Here is a portrait print.

Untouched paint.

Use a brayer to roll through the paint.
I mixed white paint in so that our prints would show up on top of the old cardboard prints.

After printing on the original paintings, each student brought
their printing blocks over to one large piece of paper.
Each class created one group print.