The Fantastico Printmaking

This term for Term 4! And for Integrated Learning we have been learning about what our Taonga is, and I know I already told you guys about what a Taonga is and I posted 2 blog posts about it so this is going to be my third post about our Taonga. This blog post is about my Culture flowers. So I'm going to tell you guys the step by step process of making my Filipino Flower.

The first thing my class had to do was to find a picture of our Cultures Like National Flower, then we had to get an A4 piece of paper and then fold it into quarters, and do 4 drawings on our National flower, after we had to choose which was was our favorite and then get like a cardboard piece of paper and trace the one that you liked on to the cardboard piece of paper. The next thing we had to do after we traced it we had to get another cardboard piece of paper and then the one that we traced we had to put it on top of the other piece of paper then get a pen or pencil and use it to press really hard on the traced paper so then the paper on the bottom will have an outline of it. But we had to first do it on the main bits the to the detail bits like the lines on the leaf. So then we had to cut out the different bits the clue them on a squared piece of cardboard. Then we got tooken to a dying table so we could use some rollers to put some dye on to the cardboard and this is how my turned out:

Then what we had to do next was we had to get a piece of paper to practice pressing it down so here is my practice bits:

And here is my final draft and i'm really proud!:

Something I found difficult was drawing it cause I wanted to make my culture happy and I wanted it to be perfect, something I enjoyed was rolling it because it was cool to see how it looked like if the colors would mix and how it would turn out as!

You better stay tuned for more of my Taonga work!