3rd Grade Students Bend with Giacometti

recently, GA's 3rd Graders learned about the sculptures of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti.  After posing for each other in various positions, the students made their own Giacometti inspired figurative sculptures with wire armature, plaster tape, and a metallic finish.  Reduction Prints - In our printmaking unit, 3^rd grade students learned about relief printing and experimented with reduction.  An original design was drawn onto their foam, printing block, rolled with ink (using a brayer), and transferred to paper (with a barren).  Later, the plate surface was “reduced” by applying more drawing and design to the original foam block.  With a different color, the reduced design is printed over the original print to create a rich multicolor print.