Day five: Animal texture project
I totally nailed my image. It was a little crooked, but I like my final matte.

Dat four: Texture project
Now that I've stamped my second ink color, I can carve away what was needing to be grey and do my outlines

This is all that's left on my stamp, and you can clearly see the elephant. 

Day three: Texture project

I ripped my template and had to re-cut one. Therefore, nine of my ten prints are now crooked.
But on the bright side, I am a problem solver. And this will be fixed.

Day two: Texture project
We cut our white away and rolled out ink on Plexiglas. We mix our two inks to get the desired hue and then make another square of ink until it looks like crushed velvet- or until you get tired of the kissy sound.
Then print ten papers with your first layer cuts. Whatever shows up will be in you lightest color.
Then you cut away anything in your color plan that was that color.
You now have your second layer.

This was after I carved away all possible pick-up. I left my birds in the horizon. I hate them now. They're too little and complicated to cut.

Day one: Texture project
we worked on finding an animal with a visible texture, we also had to google what "visible texture" was in art. I immediately thought of pachyderms- animals with rough, thick skin.
So, I picked an elephant.
We had to draw three prints of the animal, or different ones, and create a 4x6" panel to put on our rubber stamp. then transfer it and begin cutting out the white places on our color plan.
On the left is my color plan. And the right is my practice print, after I had cut my white out.
I also carved my art teacher's stamp for her, both sides, I think I'm getting better at precise cutting.

New project: Stamp texture project
We have a few requirements.
* Animal
* 3 textures. not all three can be in the animal.
* Use time wisely
* three colors
* craftsmanship

These last few weeks, we've been experimenting with prints and carving stamps and making mats; which I'm great at
The first stamp was on an art gum eraser, and was used to make a "Radial Tesselation" which is a design that you pivot around one point and repeat.
We made stamps of our initials and then matted it, officially. We learned how to title, edition, and sign our mats. And now we're working on three layer rubber stamps.