The Tree of Life

Etching process

In Term 1 we made a Tree of Life etching which was inspired by an artwork by John Coburn. In the etching process, we took our Tree of Life which was drawn on a piece of see-through plastic and got a sharp point and traced over our Tree of Life.

Printing process

In the following Art lesson, some mums came in and helped with the printing process. In the printing process, we used a printing press to press our Tree of Life on a piece of paper. Before we could print our Tree of Life we had to spread either blue or black ink with a roller over our tree. Then we used a piece of material and wiped off some of the ink by rubbing the material in circles gently on our art work. Then we went to one of the printing presses and put our artwork down facing upwards and one of the mums put a piece of paper over our etching plate and a piece of felt on top. Then we rolled the big cylinder over our Tree of Life which pressed the ink onto the piece of paper.  

Nick Nathan, Year 4