Skyline Print Making

 Description: 

For this project, we created a skyline using printmaking techniques. First we started by painting the sunset background using watercolors. We used the wet-on-wet technique to create a more authentic sunset look on the watercolor paper. Then, we set these aside to dry. While our sunsets were drying, we started making our print. We used a piece of paper the same size as our foam plate to create a skyline of our choosing. The only requirement was that it had 3 structures. Then, we taped our paper to the foam printmaking board and traced the design again using a lot of pressure. After this, we took the paper off and traced the outline on the foam plate one more time to make sure everything was pressed really well into the plate. We then took black printmaking ink and rolled it onto the foam using a brayer. We first pressed this design on a piece of scratch paper to make sure that it was going to work correctly. Then we covered the print with black printmaking ink one more time and pressed the plate onto our sunset background. 

Extension Activity: 

To incorporate social studies into this project students could learn about different groups of Native Americans and create a "skyline" project depicting different villages or settlements of Native Americans and what their houses or other structures looked like. They could also present these to the class and include a PowerPoint presentation talking about the Native American group that they researched.