Hello, bloggers in honor of Matariki nearly being here, we have been doing ink printing! Our stages were.. 1. make a draft- when we made our drafts we had to draw mountains of our choice and make swirls around our Matariki. Make sure to draw the stars backward or else when we print they would be around the wrong way! 2. once done the draft we had to trace it on foam- this process is best when using a ballpoint pen, we got given one sheet of foam so we had to make sure we treated it like a baby very carefully! Then get your ink.3. Printing- ready! you get your foam checked off and on you go to printing using a paint roller we spread the ink onto our foam plate. using your colors of choice e.g green-black and blue-purple and orange-red and any of your choice. You then roll your colors on your foam plate. drawing your design in the foam makes indents which the ink cant get into, making then blank spots when you print. Part of this process is pressing your foam plate on a piece of card with your ink on it of course. Peel your foam off the paper and boom it's a pretty Matariki painting. WAIT don't leave yet once you have let it dry you make a frame using the stencil our teachers have made. on a sheet card then draw your outline rather you could say inline. After you sketch out your line we cut along the line you have drawn with a craft knife BE CAREFUL. Trim your painting and glue on your frame. And now you're done! good job let me know if you try this out!!
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