Category: Studio Hours
Try This: Silkscreen Printing Using a Vinyl Stencil
This type of printing is effective to make multiple screenprints without many specialized tools (like when transferring a photograph to a silkscreen). You’d need the basic silkscreen materials (screen, squeegee, ink) and vinyl. You can cut a pattern with scissors or with an Exacto. This style of printmaking is wonderful for simple, bold images.
Creativity Invitation: Make a Marker Mess
Explore more drawing resources if that helps inspires you.
Try This Invitation: Be Inspired by Your Own Music
You could also make music inspired by our collection. Abstract art can be great inspiration for sonorous expressions.
Try This Invitation: Make a Messy Drawing
Explore other drawing resources and activities to inspired you.
Creativity Invitation: Make a Sculpture out of Prints
A sculpture of found materials is called an assemblage. Explore one our best-loved artworks, an assemblage by La Wilson as an inspiration.
Try this Invitation: Make Something Tiny
Explore Aminah Robinson’s small books as inspiration.
Try This Invitation: Make Something Useful and Beautiful
Explore some of our glass paperweights by Paul Stankard to inspire you.
Try This Invitation: Make a Book About You
What do you need? We have many short videos to explore about bookmaking and some examples of artist-made books. Look through these resources to help you jump start your creativity.
Try This: Accordion Books
Bookmaking can be easy. Handmade books are perfect for pocket sketchbooks. Try This? This book is one of the easiest books to make. You need paper. Play with making tiny, tiny accordion books and big, big ones.
Try your hand at simple abstraction
What you need? Anything you have at hand. Paper, pom poms, cutlery. Try This: Challenge yourself to make faces without any realistic marks. What is the most simple face you can make? How can you change the composition to change the expression?
