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Today was the first day of our Saturday morning series. Christine did Triangles with Art Play (a class designed for pre-school) from 9:00am to 10:00, and then I came in to do M. C. Escher, patterns and tesselations.<\/p>\n

We re-named Mad Science to Creative Universe since we look at the universality of Art to help us understand a variety of things. This time the theme for the series is Pattern, and in the fall we plan on doing Animals.<\/p>\n

Anyway, today we did some sketches on paper with letters to talk about how things are reflected (like a mirror), rotated (or turned around), or translated (moved down a line) to create patterns. Then I explained how we could use what we talked about to create a pattern on graph paper. After it was clear everyone understood the general idea, we moved on to cutting out stamps from Scrap Box rubber pads.
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\"Making <\/a>
Making the stamp <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Upside-down <\/a>
Upside-down and Right-side-up <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pounding <\/a>
Pounding out the pattern <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Finding <\/a>
Finding the design <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scumbling <\/a>
Scumbling pattern <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\nWe took our stamps and made patterns with them by translation, and rotation. To do reflection you need to cut a separate stamp that faces the opposite way. A p will rotate to become a d, but no matter how you turn it, it doesn’t become a b or a q which would be the reflection.<\/p>\n

After some focused stamping and repeating, I opened it up and had them do some really fast stamping with geometric right before clean-up. One student took her line and rotated the stamp while applying pressure, creating a pattern of scumbled monotypes that look like LP records. Scumbling is dragging paint across a surface, usually with a large palette knife or ruler, and a monotype is a kind of print made from a block that is re-inked in an irregular way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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