Inside/Outside Self Portrait Exchange

Working at a Summer Arts Institute over the summer, I created this project for my older students to  explore relief printing as a means of expression. Each student created two relief prints out of foam plates, one of their representational self-portrait (outside self) and one of their symbolic self-portrait (inside self).

Supplies

* Foam printing plates

* Relief printing ink

* Pencils (for carving design into plate)

* Wood pieces (for creating plates with glued foam cutouts)

* Scissors

* White paper (cut into strips
* Binders thread
* Binders needles

After the printing plates were made, each student editioned their prints so that there was one for everyone in the class. After we exchanged prints, we bound them into an artist book using the Japanese Stab Binding technique.