Reduction Junction What's Your Function?

Examples of student's completed prints.

Exemplary example of student research and sketches prior to creating relief print. I required that students chart their short-term and long-term goals, next create thumbnail sketches, then to increase their skill with reading and measuring with a ruler each created a 1:1 drawing of their composition which would then be transferred onto their substrate.

A developing example of student concept development work.

Typically a relief print is created with wood or linoleum, or that rubbery stuff they sell art teachers for students. In this project each student received a foam sheet, on which they traced their composition. Once that step was completed,  they pasted the foam with rubber cement onto cut mat board squares. Then they would cut the recessed areas that would not print on the first pass.
I honestly would not ever suggest this. It sucked up SO MUCH material: foam, rubber cement and mat board. Ridiculous!

Here a student pulls his first prints with the rubbery linoleum substrate (because I ran out of the other supplies). I had approximately 260 Intro students working on this project.

More student prints.