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use things that you don’t mind recycling after making
the prints. Here are a few ideas:
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Bubble wrap
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Marshmallows or candy
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Pasta
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Wine corks, bottle tops, and caps
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Leaves, twigs, flowers, acorns, pinecones, and feathers
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Drinking straws
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Cotton swabs or cotton balls
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Lace or doilies
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Old toy cars (try rolling the wheels into the ink and
then along the page)
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String
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Cards
Okay, time to get a bit messy! Cover your worktable
and put on some old clothes. As in Adventure 4:
Drawing as Frottage, we will be using the textures
of real objects to create our drawings. We’re going
to explore the wide range of marks that can be
obtained from printing with objects. Throughout this
adventure, I used India ink (and wore rubber gloves!)
to create my prints, but you could also consider
printing with the following.
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Watercolors
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Writing ink
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Kids’ poster paints
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A cold cup of VERY strong black coffee
Begin by collecting textural objects to use for
printing. These items are going to get messy, so only
Drawing as
Print