8th Graders

Last week I was a guest at West Middle School in Brentwood, where I gave an instructional printmaking workshop to 8th grade art students. We experimented with tools and materials for gel printmaking with great results! Students produced beautiful prints as they played with color combinations, stencils, and drawing. They combined colors and played with patterned stencils, they drew picutres using rubber tipped blending tools that I have for clay hand building. Much of what they’ve created can stand alone as an abstract texture print, but could also be repurposed into new pieces such as mosaics of a mural or backgrounds of collage and larger pieces. I believe the most interesting productions are yet to come.

Thank you to Ms. Claudia Genna, BOCES Arts in Education and to the Brentwood Union Free School District.