Lessons

Relief Printing

Signature Chop

ASSIGNMENT:

Use your initials to design a signature chop.

STEPS:

  1. Use your gum eraser to trace a block/square on paper 10 times.
  2. Draw a different disign of your initials in each block/square.
    Be creative - distort - frame - overlap - use 1 or 2 initials per block
  3. Color background black and leave initials white of paper.
  4. Select two of the ten designs to carve for a chop.

GRADING:

A = 10 completed, different designs
B = 7 completed, different designs
C = 4 completed, different designs
D- = 1 completed, design
 

NOTES:

Previous lessons: Chinese scroll paint, Chinese calligraphy

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