Radial Balance Printmaking

With Color Scheme

Intro to Art

Assignment #3

Color Schemes

Complimentary colors: Color across the color wheel from each other

Warm colors: red, orange, yellow

Cool colors: blue, green, violet (purple)

Monochromatic colors: colors that are the same

Analogous colors: colors next to each other on the color wheel.

Printmaking Is a type of relief work.

You are taking away parts of a design on a

lino block to create an image.

With printmaking you can reproduce the

same image multiple times.

There are several different ways to make a

print

relief printing, where the ink goes on the

original surface of the matrix.

intaglio, where the ink goes beneath the

original surface of the matrix. -etching

planographic, where the matrix retains its

entire surface, but some parts are treated

to make the image.

stencil, including: screen-printing

Examples: Wood Cut relief- Munch

Engraving-

Durer

Lino relief

Radial Balance where all elements radiate out from a

center point in a circular fashion.

It is very easy to maintain a focal point in

radial balance, since all the elements lead

your eye toward the center.

Mandala A symbol of wholeness

Mandala means circle.

In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness - the circle of eternity.

the pattern of a mandala -- a circle with a center -- reaches far beyond a two or three dimensional art form.

Examples of mandalas are found in nature. Every cell in our body, for instance, is a living mandala. So is the iris of our eye, a snow crystal, a bird's nest --even a bicycle wheel.

Assignment #3

You will be designing a mandala of your

own.

Your image must be able to reproduce 4

times to create a completed mandala.

After the printing process each of the four

parts will be colored in a color scheme

with colored pencils.

Step 1

Create a design that could be reproduced

4 times on a piece of paper.

Step 2

Trace your design onto the lino by flipping

your work over and coloring with the side

of your pencil on the back.

Then turn it over again and (like the

graphite paper) trace your image onto the

lino block

Step 3

After you image has

been transferred cut

the negative space

from your lino block

Step 4

Once your design is cut get printing in and

a brayer to role the ink onto the lino block.

Step 5 Get a piece of white printing paper and put

it on top of the lino block with ink.

Place it onto the printing press and press

it.

Step 6

Do that 3 more times to have 4 prints total.

Set the prints aside to dry.

Choose colors for your color schemes and get them okayed by the teacher.

Examples of finished looks

Step 7 Once dry add the colors from your color

scheme choices to color on your mandala

design.

Grading:

Your mandala design- if it’s one paper that was able to be put into four pieces without and noticeable mismarks?

Your correctly cut the negative space from your design

If you color with the correct color schemes in each of the 4 prints.-4 different schemes

Craftsmanship

Creativity intricate design that pushing yourself and looks like you’ve paid attention to detail.

Identifying if it is a relief work, color schemes and positive/negative space.