LESSON 6: Remini[sence] and Es[sense], Flavor and Aroma- Multi-Block Ingalio and Relief Printing using E-Z Blue blocks and water-based printing inks.
Karissa Ferrell. Astral Blend & Pepper no. 2. (2011) muliti-block intaglio and relief prints.
Description:
This lesson is designed as a closure to the sensory exploration projects. Students will create a “mind” or “concept” map based on their memories and associations of several different scents and flavors. This lesson is intended to help students tap into their memories and moments in a way that is less about narrative or story telling and more about ephemeral glimpses of their experiences. This lesson will also teach students relief printing and intaglio printing processes which they will use on lesson 7.
Objectives:
Artists' Examples:
- Mary Parisi (Conceptual Photography)- *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Dustin Wayne Harris (Conceptual Photography)- *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Rebekah Meyers & Timothy Berg - http://www.timothyjohnberg.com/ *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Jennifer Rubell- http://jenniferrubell.com/index.php?sec=projects *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Greg Stweart “Beast or Byproduct” http://gregstewartsite.org/beast-or-by-product.html *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
Defining Terms:
Reminiscence- the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, or retrieving and retaining a mental impression.
Essences- the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature(s) or a substance obtained from a plant, flower, nut or the like, by distillation, infusion, and containing its characteristic properties in concentrated form (i.e. solution of an essential oil, spirit, perfume, etc.
Aroma- an odor arising from spices, plants, cooking, etc., especially an agreeable odor or fragrance. A pervasive characteristic or quality.
Flavor- the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth. Or the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
Ephemeral- lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
Associations-making a connection or combination; the relation of ideas, feelings, sensations, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.
Sensory- of or pertaining to the senses or sensation.
Memory- the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
Relief Printing- a design created through raise and recesses areas of a block or plate. Generally the negative (or unwanted shapes) are carved away and the positive (remaining shapes) are rolled with ink. Under pressure the ink will transfer to the paper and the negative spaces remain the color of the paper.
Intaglio Printing- a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised (carved, scratched, or etched using acid) into a surface of a plate. The plate is inked with soft, but not runny ink rubbed into the incised design. The surface of the plate is wiped clean, leaving ink in only the recessed areas. A damp piece of paper is placed on top of the plate then run through a printing press.
Materials and Preparations:
Procedures: (12 days)
(DAY 1)
Students will lay out their prints from this lesson and the previous lesson. Students will have an informal critique/discussion making connections between their associations with memory and taste and aroma. Students will also discuss the feeling and the sense of touch and the mood or feeling of the artworks (from Lesson 4). Students should wander around looking at each other’s work, they may naturally gravitate towards specific works or the teacher can hold up works to spur on conversation.
Some questions may include: (Students will be encouraged to use descriptive adjectives, poetic metaphors and or stirred memories to explain how the work makes them feel.)
- When you look at the artwork, does it make you feel calm, anxious, afraid, sad, happy, excited?
- What types of colors, lines, textures, and shapes has the artist used? How do those choices relate to the feeling or mood or
your association with taste or smell.
- How could you change the mood of this work?
- Do you think the artist internally felt the same way as the image appears?
- Who has a different interpretation of the mood, feeling, sent or aroma of this work? What makes you feel that way about
it?
- Create a title for the work that you feel represents it poetically (non-literally).
Assessments:
Formative-Teacher will monitor student’s progress and understanding of the relief and intaglio printing techniques.
Summative- Students will participate in a short discussion/critique of the works. Teacher will get a sense for the student’s deeper understanding of the process and the connections between associations and how they can create a sensory translation within artworks.
Extensions: (* Optional Extra Credit- up to 10 critique points)
Curators Alyssa Cordova and Heather Richards of Sixpack Projects present, “ACQUIRED TASTE: Food and the Art of Consumption.” OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 29, 5-8 pm LOCATION: Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton 800 North State College Blvd., Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA. Call Mike McGee, Director Art Gallery Office: Tel. | 657.278.7750 for other dates and times- the show is on exhibit from October 29 – December 8, 2011. To receive up to 10 critique points extra credit please attend the show (the opening will be a lot of fun!) and record your experience, thoughts, questions for the artists or curators in 3-4 paragraphs. Email responses to Ms. Ferrell ([email protected]) no later than December 10th *Please note your responses may be posted to this website under the Student Examples for Lesson 6.
Some questions to consider while you look and respond to the exhibition:
- What are your favorite pieces, or the pieces you find most interesting, and why?
- Are there any pieces your find upsetting or works you “dislike,” and why?
- What is tying these works together? Why do you think the curators (exhibition designers) chose to include these artists and
artworks?
- Do you have any questions for the artists or the curators?
- Any other comments about your experience at this gallery exhibition?
Specific Links: Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption: *Extra Credit opportunity-see above http://acquiredtaste.sixpackprojects.com/wp/
This lesson is designed as a closure to the sensory exploration projects. Students will create a “mind” or “concept” map based on their memories and associations of several different scents and flavors. This lesson is intended to help students tap into their memories and moments in a way that is less about narrative or story telling and more about ephemeral glimpses of their experiences. This lesson will also teach students relief printing and intaglio printing processes which they will use on lesson 7.
Objectives:
- Students will experience various tastes and aromas and create a list of their associations with each.
- Students will create a mind map expanding on their initial associations, pulling out personal memories, and thoughts.
- Students will create two plates; one based on translating the ephemeral qualities of the aroma or taste (in a nonrepresentational way) and the other relating to a personal memory or thought association with that sent (based on the mind map).
- Students will print both their blocks in a variety of creative and experimental ways (viscosity printing, layering, ghost printing, etc.)
Artists' Examples:
- Mary Parisi (Conceptual Photography)- *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Dustin Wayne Harris (Conceptual Photography)- *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Rebekah Meyers & Timothy Berg - http://www.timothyjohnberg.com/ *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Jennifer Rubell- http://jenniferrubell.com/index.php?sec=projects *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
- Greg Stweart “Beast or Byproduct” http://gregstewartsite.org/beast-or-by-product.html *Acquired Taste exhibition, Cal State Fullerton
Defining Terms:
Reminiscence- the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, or retrieving and retaining a mental impression.
Essences- the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature(s) or a substance obtained from a plant, flower, nut or the like, by distillation, infusion, and containing its characteristic properties in concentrated form (i.e. solution of an essential oil, spirit, perfume, etc.
Aroma- an odor arising from spices, plants, cooking, etc., especially an agreeable odor or fragrance. A pervasive characteristic or quality.
Flavor- the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth. Or the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
Ephemeral- lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
Associations-making a connection or combination; the relation of ideas, feelings, sensations, etc.; correlation of elements of perception, reasoning, or the like.
Sensory- of or pertaining to the senses or sensation.
Memory- the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
Relief Printing- a design created through raise and recesses areas of a block or plate. Generally the negative (or unwanted shapes) are carved away and the positive (remaining shapes) are rolled with ink. Under pressure the ink will transfer to the paper and the negative spaces remain the color of the paper.
Intaglio Printing- a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised (carved, scratched, or etched using acid) into a surface of a plate. The plate is inked with soft, but not runny ink rubbed into the incised design. The surface of the plate is wiped clean, leaving ink in only the recessed areas. A damp piece of paper is placed on top of the plate then run through a printing press.
Materials and Preparations:
- Scents and Tastes (avoid any common allergens or unusually unpleasant items) Ideas include: cinnamon, vanilla, almond, black licorice, pepper, curry, rosemary, almond, coconut, chipotle powder, orange blossom or rose water, donut holes, strawberries, ginger, bubble gum, basil, lemon or lime, clove, incense, soaps or perfumes, etc. *Prepare these substances in small Dixie cups or Petri-dishes with cotton swabs or toothpicks for sampling.
- Concept map worksheet
- Slide images of artist examples and teacher samples
- 2 small relief blocks per student (E-Z blue carve or Linoleum, or Wood Blocks)
- Transfer paper
- Carving tools
- Mark making tools, sand paper, or prickly objects for altering the surface of the relief blocks
- Printing paper & scratch paper
- Wax paper (for stencil designs- optional)
- Registration page (made for the press or for hand printing- final paper, ruler, pencil, clear transparency film, masking tape)
- Masking tape
- Ink (various colors, oil and/or water based pigments)
- Brayers
- Barrens
- Tarlatin
- Glass pallets (optional)
- Simple green
- Paper towels for cleanup
Procedures: (12 days)
(DAY 1)
- Teacher will present students with the selected artists who have used taste and/or scents as the basis for their artwork (either abstract or representational).
- Teacher will explain and demonstrate the process of creating a concept map (and using the thesaurus) to expand ideas. The class will participate with the example of (grape- or something easy for everyone to eat and experience together).
- Teacher will review the “defining terms” for this lesson.
- Teacher will prepare various samples of the aromas and tastes (small dishes with cotton swabs or toothpicks). Teacher must be sure to announce the caution for allergens.
- Students will pair up and take turns selecting various taste samples for their partner.
- Students should spend 5-7 minutes with each sample listing out their impression of the taste or smell, their associations with that smell, and then expanding those associations with the concept map worksheet. It is ok if a student can’t specifically identify the sample.
- Students will choose the aroma or taste they found most interesting and begin formulating 2 different designs that relate to their associations (memory and sensory).
- Students may need to use the computer for further research, google images, online thesaurus, etc.
- Students will finalize two designs one relating in an abstract way to their ephemeral experience of the taste or aroma and the other more closely representing a memory association (more narrative) with that same aroma or taste.
- Teacher will demonstrate a variety of techniques (and safety procedures) that students will use to create their designs in the relief block(s).
- Students will transfer their designs onto the surface of the relief block using carbon or transfer paper or gel-medium transfer techniques (from lesson 2)
- Students will carve their designs
- Students will create a frottage rubbing or practice print (on scratch paper) to see how their design is progressing. Students will be ready to print their final design by the 7th or 8th day of this lesson.
- Teacher will demonstrate how to create and use a registration page for laying multiple blocks onto a single print.
- Partner groups will make a registration page that they both will use for their practice and final prints.
- Teacher will demonstrate a variety of printing techniques including: intaglio rubbing and printing with the press on wet paper, laying multiple prints on a single sheet of relief paper and printing by hand, incorporating a stencil, printing wet on wet, etc.
- Students will complete their blocks and create at least one practice print of each of their blocks before they begin their final prints.
- Each student should create 4-6 different final prints (using both the intaglio and relief processes)
- Teacher will have to assign different partners to alternate using the printing press. Students will also need to alternate being the “printer” and the “clean hands” assistant.
- Teacher will also demonstrate proper clean up techniques for each type of printing.
Students will lay out their prints from this lesson and the previous lesson. Students will have an informal critique/discussion making connections between their associations with memory and taste and aroma. Students will also discuss the feeling and the sense of touch and the mood or feeling of the artworks (from Lesson 4). Students should wander around looking at each other’s work, they may naturally gravitate towards specific works or the teacher can hold up works to spur on conversation.
Some questions may include: (Students will be encouraged to use descriptive adjectives, poetic metaphors and or stirred memories to explain how the work makes them feel.)
- When you look at the artwork, does it make you feel calm, anxious, afraid, sad, happy, excited?
- What types of colors, lines, textures, and shapes has the artist used? How do those choices relate to the feeling or mood or
your association with taste or smell.
- How could you change the mood of this work?
- Do you think the artist internally felt the same way as the image appears?
- Who has a different interpretation of the mood, feeling, sent or aroma of this work? What makes you feel that way about
it?
- Create a title for the work that you feel represents it poetically (non-literally).
Assessments:
Formative-Teacher will monitor student’s progress and understanding of the relief and intaglio printing techniques.
Summative- Students will participate in a short discussion/critique of the works. Teacher will get a sense for the student’s deeper understanding of the process and the connections between associations and how they can create a sensory translation within artworks.
Extensions: (* Optional Extra Credit- up to 10 critique points)
Curators Alyssa Cordova and Heather Richards of Sixpack Projects present, “ACQUIRED TASTE: Food and the Art of Consumption.” OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 29, 5-8 pm LOCATION: Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton 800 North State College Blvd., Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA. Call Mike McGee, Director Art Gallery Office: Tel. | 657.278.7750 for other dates and times- the show is on exhibit from October 29 – December 8, 2011. To receive up to 10 critique points extra credit please attend the show (the opening will be a lot of fun!) and record your experience, thoughts, questions for the artists or curators in 3-4 paragraphs. Email responses to Ms. Ferrell ([email protected]) no later than December 10th *Please note your responses may be posted to this website under the Student Examples for Lesson 6.
Some questions to consider while you look and respond to the exhibition:
- What are your favorite pieces, or the pieces you find most interesting, and why?
- Are there any pieces your find upsetting or works you “dislike,” and why?
- What is tying these works together? Why do you think the curators (exhibition designers) chose to include these artists and
artworks?
- Do you have any questions for the artists or the curators?
- Any other comments about your experience at this gallery exhibition?
Specific Links: Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption: *Extra Credit opportunity-see above http://acquiredtaste.sixpackprojects.com/wp/
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