Rousseau prints
Year 4 pupils from Cavendish Primary School, showcased their excellent creative powers at a printing workshop with artist Alan Birch. Pupils producing drawings from the work of Rousseau, before engraving them onto metallic card plates. Using engravers and sandpaper pupils, pupils transformed their drawings into intaglio prints. Pupils used Alan’s portable press and water-based inks to print their own works. Some of these were printed with leaves as a background created from embossed wallpaper. Both year groups really enjoyed themselves and their application was a credit to the school. As a final treat some pupils printed from actual leaves to create surface prints and create a jungle scene.
Printing workshop with Alan Birch
Tiger in the Rain. Henri Rousseau
Rousseau printing workshop
Drawing of self portrait
with cat
Cavendish primary school