inspire community Fine Arts Centre's
celebrates and teaches the arts to both
kids and adults in the community
Symphony Symphony take two Cynthia is
here to give us an example of what's
going on
sorry butchered your first name
apologize that okay lots of great crap
that tip you showed us off the top of
the show was fantastic about doing a
little kind of printing with just 12 own
right yep easy to do at home we're also
going to try some block printing today
as well as some screen printing and
these are all activities that you can do
at some of the summer camps we'll talk
more about that coming up all right you
want to do the block print because I did
yes so how do I start so you're going to
take a break
roll it through the ink and this is just
printmaking ink that you could get at
any arts and crafts store and that's
called a brayer it's called a brayer oh
yeah and it's important with to use the
glass is that yeah glass plexiglass any
smooth surface and then you can roll it
onto the wood block and how many of
these do you have at your place for the
kiddos to you we have several though
these are have been laser cut for us you
can also make your own wood block or by
like a linoleum block and obviously now
many people have laser cutters at home
do that but if you were to take even a
softer wood like a pine or something yet
you could almost do like you did with
the the styrofoam and it kind of carved
something in or even carving to exactly
something like that and then place this
paper on top so go ahead and you're
going to use this one here to roll and
press down the paper can also use your
hands and make sure you get the whole
surface any tips for this when your
doesn't really matter what you as long
as you get all that make up just print
first yeah you know it's interesting
because this is how they you know
printing has been going on for thousands
and thousands of years and the kids are
fascinated by this oh yeah mm-hmm and
just seeing all the different ways to
make prints and images is really fun
mm-hmm all right how do you so go ahead
and peel off the paper there you go
beautiful Hey Wow how did that how kids
react yes wow I love it
we got some waves going here right I'm
very looking what am I gonna do the
other way you said is screen printing
I've always been fascinated by this
because how that would work in printing
on a screen so how does this actually
work so starting with the screen you
cover it with photo emulsion which is
light-sensitive kind of like film
photography okay and you can make an
image with the transparency or you could
even draw your own image onto it and and
so there's a the transparency you put
that over that and then expose it to
light yes you just expose it in the
sunlight or underneath any type of light
bulb okay and then all of a sudden you
get then everything that wasn't yeah it
it'll burn the image into the screen and
then basically whatever was covered will
wash away and whatever was not covered
and exposed to the light will burn
permanently into the screen okay so then
we just set that down like a giant
stencil oh yeah very cool so this is
when you have screen printing on cloth
or something like that and then you can
screen print on cloth or paper okay
t-shirts
mm-hm and then you take the special yeah
so this is printmaking ink or screen
printing ink and that's different than
it's a little different from this one
and then with the squeegee you just run
it across and I like to go maybe about
five times over the screen and just to
make sure you get all pressed down here
and there okay and these art classes are
for what ages so the summer camps are
designed for ages six through twelve but
we also offer adult classes painting
drawing ceramics know what you do for
the community you know let's talk about
what what you do for the community and a
scholarship program that you yeah so
we're currently raising money right now
for the big give and that will go
towards scholarships for our students
needed to press down a little bit yeah
that came out great
yeah and so if somebody wants to donate
or sign up for a camp where should they
go so you can go to our website and find
some information there we're also going
to be at still golden this Thursday from
6 to 8 p.m. and we're going to be screen
printing t-shirts
and we're gonna have different designs
and that's kind of like a big game party
if you will right yes okay get everybody
out there get them inspired and then how
do you said how two kids sign up for the
camps then from our website okay yeah
and this is your passion cuz you said
you're all about photography you do this
part-time so they kind of meet you and
learn from you yeah and then some of the
other camps you said this and
metalworking and we're gonna have
ceramics metalworking we're gonna have a
photography camp for kids screen
printing all types of things all sorts
of different variations of art oh yeah
great thank you very much well join
inspire Fine Art Center for their
t-shirt making party and scholarship
closeout event tomorrow at still golden
from six to eight for more information
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