Making Art
: Rainy Day – Monotype Print
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Time: 30 minutes Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: Independent
Focus: Students can create and depict an expressive image appropriate to a defined context (rainy day) and a demonstrated print making process.
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Resources: Demonstration video; per student: polythene protective cover sheet; paper towels; 4 sheets of newsprint paper; blue greasy crayon; HB pencil; card plate; brayer; tube of red ink; lino inking plate.

Questions / instructions:
MaterialsIn this activity you are going to be using a picture-making process called "Monotype Printing." We will watch a video which will show you how to make a "Monotype" picture. Look carefully, and listen carefully, so that you will know how to do it.

Play video.
Your picture is to be about "Walking with an umbrella on a wet and windy day". Think about what it would be like, struggling along in the strong, gusty, blustery wind on a wet, rainy day: think about clothes flapping, the person's hair, their footwear, and how they will be holding the umbrella in the wind. Try to draw your picture so that it really shows what it would be like to be walking along in that strong, gusty wind holding up an umbrella. Think about what the person's body position will be like. Will it be pushing and leaning into the wind, or will it be quite upright?

You have about 20 minutes to do this activity.

I will let you know when you have used up half of your time. You can make more than one print if you have enough time. You may start now.

When half the time is up:
 We have used up half of our time. There are 10 minutes left for making your pictures. See how much more you can get done in that time.

When time is up:
We have to finish now, because time is up. Tidy up the things on your table, then sit down and look at your picture.

Ask the student to select their preferred print.
   
mean score
 
y4
1999(1995)
y8
1999(1995)
(0 low – 3 high)
Key attributes:		    
expressiveness:
image effectively tells a story appropriate to the task; conveys movement; imagination
1.0(1.0) 1.4(1.6)
composition:
arrangement of objects in space, balance and depth, relationship of figure and pose to setting
1.0(1.0) 1.3(1.4)
detail:
finer features included; appropriate use of tonal marking, texture, pattern
 0.8(0.8) 1.1(1.1)
use of media:
technical control of process; exploiting a range of mark making
 0.8(0.8) 1.1(1.2)
(0 low – 5 high)
Global rating:		 1.5(1.5) 2.0(2.3)
Commentary:
 In this trend task, the work produced by students in 1999 was compared with a carefully selected sample of the work produced by students in 1995. Both sets of work were marked by the same team of teacher markers. At year 4, the results of analytic marking of key attributes show no difference from 1995 to 1999. At year 8, marks show very small declines on three of the four attributes, and on the mean global rating. The distribution of global ratings on the 6 point scale show little difference from 1995 to 1999 at year 4, whereas at year 8 fewer students scored at the higher end of the scale in 1999.
 
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