Art Festival 2017

For the Art festival this year Rooms 23 and 20 teamed up to explore different printmaking techniques. Our budding artists took their inspiration from shapes and patterns in nature. We experimented with stamping, relief printing, using rollers and taking rubbings.

Our final piece was a two-colored screen print on fabric. We started by drawing outlines of the things we had collected from the gardens and then we cut out shapes from our drawings. We used these cut-out shapes as stencils and placed them on our screens before we filled the screen with fabric ink.

We got some lovely results!

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