An afternoon of art

Un-boring Summer continues!  Last week we spent an afternoon with Aunt Lacey. She facilitated a monotype printing session in her home.  For this lesson, the kids were each given a glass plate.  They spread ink over the plate - then created a print, by removing the ink where they wanted their designs. As the name suggests, a monotype only produces one print per design.  They were joined by Cousin Trace and everyone had a lot of fun!

Here's the peanut gallery - the littlest kids observed while trading bottles and telling secrets.

I think the kids enjoyed spreading the ink, more than creating their designs, it was a lot of messy fun. (unless your name is Trace and you got ink on your fingers)  Schramlets helped Mommy make new aprons for the occasion. 

 Gracie creates a design using the end of a pin.

 The boys really loved adding lot of ink.

 Peter's industrial design method included lots of texture and LOTS of ink.

 This is another way to create your design - just paint it directly on the glass plate.

 Gracie creates another design using a q-tip for wider lines (this method worked best for our little artists).

Also, Captain America showed up, near the end.