This was a well-liked lesson with my seventh graders. They realized about Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species prints and researched the Endangered Species Act earlier than selecting a species that’s at present threatened or endangered to focus their paintings. 

We used polyfoam plates and college students engraved their designs with a wooden stylus. They tried out printing with markers and with reduction ink.

To print with markers, coloration instantly on the froth plate, moist your drawing paper with a humid sponge, then place the paper damp facet down on prime of the plate and rub the again to switch the picture.

Subsequent, the scholars used reduction ink. They might do one coloration or a number of. The scholars acquired actually in to printmaking! Some that completed their first prints early and have become the category specialists, serving to others. They wished to do printmaking the remainder of the yr!

The final a part of the task was to create a show that had a photograph of and info about their animal, an artist assertion, and their finest print.