Instructional: Marker Blending Tutorial

Here's a simple instructional video on blending with markers. I've also posted some examples of projects created with markers below.

Important Vocab:

Blending: Basically, the overlapping of selected colors to either create a transition of color or to create a new color (a secondary color). Tip: Blend neighbors on the color wheel; not opposites.
Primary colors: Red, yellow, and blue. You cannot "make" these colors. You use these colors to "make" secondary colors.
Secondary colors: Orange (yellow and red), green (yellow and blue), and purple (blue and red); each is made by combining two primary colors.
Complementary colors: Colors that sit opposite on the color wheel: red and green, blue and orange, purple and yellow. Mix these colors and get brown. Place these colors next to each other and they make each other POP. (They "complement" each other...!)
Color Wheel: A chart of colors explaining how the colors relate:



Instructional: Two Point Perspective Tutorial

Here's a simple instructional video on two point perspective. I've also posted some examples of two point perspective projects below.

Important Vocab:

Vanishing Point(s): The point(s) at which lines converge and disappear.
Horizon Line: Where the sky meets the land. Also, where the Vanishing Point(s) sits.
Perspective: Basically, things get smaller as they go farther away.



Instructional: One Point Perspective Tutorial

Here's a simple instructional video on one point perspective. I've also posted some examples of one point perspective projects below.

Important Vocab:

Vanishing Point: The point at which ALL lines converge and disappear.
Horizon Line: Where the sky meets the land. Also, where the Vanishing Point sits.
Perspective: Basically, things get smaller as they go farther away.

Here are some additional examples of one point perspective. Don't forget to use the Internet to find other examples that you might like better!

Instructional: How to Print (and Clean Up Afterwards)

Here's a simple instructional video on printmaking. I've also posted some examples of printing projects below.

Important Vocab:

Printing Plate: Either Styrofoam or linoleum (rubber). Whatever you are "carving" into to make a design/picture.

Plexi Plate: The Plexiglas plate upon which you spread out the ink using a brayer.
Brayer: A "roller." What you use to spread around the ink once it's on the plexi plate.

Printing Ink: We have many colors! Only use a dime sized amount and do so with a palette knife.

Palette Knife: A white plastic knife used to get ink and place it on the plexi plate.  

And here's the link if you'd like to watch it on YouTube.

PLEASE NOTE:

You can print in any color (you don't need to use just black).

Printmaking works best for line-type drawings. Meaning, the more "expressive lines" you have, the better your print will be. Look at all the expressive and decorative lines in the prints below. Imagine how boring they would be without them. Lines add so much INTEREST!

An up-close of a linoleum block printing plate.

Look how much energy and focus the lines of the background add. They show your eye where to look. They tell you that the car is REALLY IMPORTANT! AND EXCITING!

Look how much ACTION the lines add to this already action-filled piece. The way the white background is carved out in an almost halo/sun-ray pattern around the bird tells your eyes that the focal point of this piece is the bird/alligator mouth. Lines are SO IMPORTANT!