Day of the Dead Art
Mr. Henneberry's class is in the middle of their printmaking unit. They have spent the last week creating a composition using classic Day of the Dead imagery... skulls adorned with flowers and designs. We used their iPads to access, save and import their found images into the Sketchbook Pro app. Students learned about layers and resizing their images in the app. Think about it as a simple version of photoshop.
The next step to the process is to print the completed compositions and transfer them onto their styrofoam printing plates. They will use a semi-sharp pencil to carve in their designs tracing directly over their printed image on top of the styrofoam.
The next step to the process is to print the completed compositions and transfer them onto their styrofoam printing plates. They will use a semi-sharp pencil to carve in their designs tracing directly over their printed image on top of the styrofoam.