Sound Pictures - Collagraph Printing

In this playful workshop, students will turn sounds into marks, discovering and inventing how to visually represent the sound of things.

Students will be guided through a series of exercises stretching their visual vocabulary, and develop their creativity, imagination, and critical thinking skills.

Using the printmaking technique of collagraphy, students will create a textured surface plate using a variety of materials such as cardboard, fabric, or string. The plate is then inked, and printed using a printing press, resulting in a unique and textured image, or collagraph print.

The lesson outputs can be themed to any current inquiry topics, or left open for the child's own stories to emerge, and teachers will learn a novel approach to imagination and picture-making.