Exploring printing - 6th February, 2019



Before our visit after half term of Vega Brennan, a professional print maker from Linden Print Studio, we spent time exploring a few different ways of printing.  Using the impressed foam we had prepared, then with different objects - sponges, potato prints, stamping, pieces of card..........

It was all about experimenting and see what types of marks we could make.....great fun! 








Foam printing




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