Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band — Science Leadership Academy @ Center City

Printmaking

Posted by Taj Walter in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 10:26 am

My element is Radon (Rn). The atomic number is 86. My element is a toxic substance that was discovered in 1900 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn. It was known as Niton until its name was changed in 1923. It is primarily obtained through radium decay. It is used in cancer treatment.

I got my idea from the toxicity of Rafon. Gas masks that filter out toxins need to be used when near Radon. So I drew a gas mask.

We researched our element and then we came up with 3 ideas. Next we copied our best idea on to copy paper and the copied it onto a foam board. Then we used paint to print it onto another paper.

If I could do anything different I would make sure my drawing and words was more indented in the foam.

I enjoyed the printing part of the project when we used the paint. It was the most fun to me and I enjoyed doing it. It was when we put paint on the foam and copied it onto paper. I liked putting the paint onto the foam the most of the entire project.

Element Print: Antimony

Posted by Michaela Berger in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 9:45 am

I have the element Antimony. The atomic number is 51 and the symbol is Sb, which comes from the Latin word "Stibium". Antimony has no known discovery date. Antimony was mentioned in the Old Testament, as well as in papyrus in the 16th century. There is an Antimony vase in the Louvre in Paris, estimated to be 5,000 years old. It was also used in kohl eyeliner in ancient Egypt. Today, Antimony is used in some batteries, bullets, cable sheathing, and flame retardant materials.

In my print, I chose to have a kohl eye. This was a symbol used in ancient Egypt used to represent people wearing eyeliner, which contained large amounts of Antimony. The kohl eye symbol is so intricate, yet simple. I thought it would look great in a negative space print. For my print, I first sketched my kohl eye. I then copied the design onto tracing paper. Next, I flipped the tracing paper over, then copied my backwards design onto a foam plate. After that, I rolled paint onto my plate. Lastly, I flipped the plate onto fresh printer paper and applied light pressure to the back of the plate to transfer the paint.

If I were to do this project again, I would make my atomic symbol and number a little bit more distinguishable on the design. They were both a little bit small and hard to see. I would also press all of my negative space lines in further so they could be more prominent. I enjoyed printing the most. I really liked rolling the paint and printing it onto the paper. It was a very satisfying feeling.

Printmaking - Cameryn Roach

Posted by Cameryn Roach in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Monday, May 28, 2018 at 8:47 pm

My element is Scandium. Scandium was discovered by Lars Fredrik Nilson within the minerals euxenite and gadolinite in 1876. Nilson and his colleagues identified the element while they were searching for rare earth metals. Nilson also named the element after the Latin word Scandia, which meant "Scandinavia". Its atomic number is 21, the element symbol is Sc, and it's labeled as both a transition metal and a rare earth metal. Scandium is used by aerospace industry units and sports equipment companies for things like bicycle frames, baseball bats, fishing rods, and gold iron shafts.

I picked up the thought to create a lightbulb for my print because I saw on a website that Scandium iodide's applied in mercury vapor lights to help duplicate sunlight on a television or movie set, which is used in the film industry. For the process of getting to my final product, first I had to make three rough draft sketches of things I might want to use. Second, I had to pick one and trace it onto a small rectangle of tracing paper. Then I had to flip the tracing paper over so that the letter and numbers would be backwards when I copied my design onto our printing square. After that, I got to pick out of four colors to roll onto our square, and once I finished covering it with the right amount of paint, I placed it face down on a blank sheet of paper. I had to press the blank piece of paper down onto my square with a wooden spoon to get all the paint onto the paper. I redid this process four times to get all the prints I needed. During the next class when the prints were dry, I used a ruler to help get rid of the white area around my print, and then I used a colored piece of construction paper for my 1-inch border.

If I did this print a second time, I would change my design to something else. It would still be of a light bulb, just different in some way. I enjoyed the final stages of the project the most (everything I had to do after the print dried). I liked this the most because it seemed to be more relaxing and chill than everything else.

Element Print

Posted by Camren Jones in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 6:54 pm

My element silicon its atomic symbol is Si and its atomic number is 14. Silicon is the 8th most common element in the world. Jöns Jacob Berzelius, a Swedish chemist founded Silicon in 1782. Most silicon that is used today isn't pure. It can be found in computer chips, batteries, clay, silica sand, and stone. I chose to draw a laptop because when I think of a computer ship I think of a laptop. The process of making this took several steps:

Draw image on tracing paper
flip the tracing paper over so it is backwards. Then begin to draw on the stencil with the tracing paper.
Place the printer paint onto a tray then roll out to get an even layer
Cover the stencil with the even layer of paint
Place the stencil on the paper then press down
repeat this at least 3 times
Wait to dry then rip off the access paper
place the image of construction paper
Create an one inch boarder

If i did this again I would add more paint because some of them turned out blotchy. While doing this assignment I didn't have a favorite part.

Ethan's Element Print

Posted by Ethan Chen in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Friday, May 25, 2018 at 2:38 pm

My element was Cadmium the atomic number 48.

Cadmium was first discovered by a German chemist name Friedrich Strohmeyer in 1817. He was studying calamine and when he heated it some of calamine glowed with a yellow color. He did more research and experiments when he determined that he found a new element. Cadmium can be found in Earth's Crust along with zinc so it mined out by humans. The problem with Cadmium is that it is very toxic to humans. Although Cadmium is toxic, it is still used in rechargeable batteries. Cadmium is used in alloys for bearings. Cadmium can be used for control rods for nuclear reactors. Cadmium can also be found in solder with silver.

When I started to do the print, I research about the what Cadmium is use for and the history behind it. When I find out what it does, it made three separate designs in my sketch book. One was batteries inside of a charging station because cadmium it is on of the uses in cadmium. Another design I had was a nuclear plant and then there is an inside view of the control role that have cadmium in it. My final design was drawing a alloy bearing and solder. I decided to do the the recharging station one because I felt like that was my best work out of the three. Then , I trace the drawing over the foam plate with pen. Finally, we got paint and I decided to try out all of the colors. The class we had, I pick out one of the three best prints out of the 8 prints I made. I measure what the matted out and glue the two prints onto my matt.

What I would want to change if I do this the second time was to try to press hader so there is no white spots on the parts where it should be fill with color. I also felt like I could improve the drawing like drawing the insides of a battery to show it charging. I enjoy printing it because it fun painting over your plate and seeing it being printed on paper.

Anti area cut out -Kyree Yates

Posted by Kyree Yates in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Friday, May 25, 2018 at 2:17 pm

Kayla Kelly-Technetium

Posted by Kayla Kelly in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Friday, May 25, 2018 at 2:14 pm

My element is Technetium. atomic number 43
My element, was founded, by emilio segre and carlo perrier. It is radio active, the first man made element, and can last up to an hour and can be used on x-ray procedure on bone cancer, technetium -97m, can last up to 91 days, technetium-95m can last 61 days, and technetium-99m can last 6.01 hours.
well it is radio active, can find bone cancer, and I thought well I can put the number, symbol, and name in the sign.
copied the design on parchment, put the parchment back wards copy design on the plate, put plate in ink, put inked plate, on paper, rub paper so ink is fully on paper, and dry.
put more ink, and make sure there is so the print is more visable.
putting it in ink and paper was my favroite part.

Printmaking Blog Post & final steps for the element print-Sukainah Hasan

Posted by Sukainah Hasan in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 10:07 am

1.) My element is Lead. The atomic number is 82.

2.) Lead chemical symbol comes from the Latin word for waterworks, plumbum. Lead has been known since ancient times. Lead is used in cable covering, as ammunition, as electrodes, in solder and as roofing material.

3.) I got the idea for the imaginary that I chose by knowing that lead has to do with metal, and I know that nails have to do with metal.

4.) The process that I went through was first sketching the nails. Next, I drew the nails on the plate. Next, I painted it, and put it on paper.

5.) Something that I would do differently is cut it different.

6.) Something that I enjoyed was sketching the of the nails in the very beginning, because I just love sketching simple things and this was something that was simple.

Zinc-Negative Space

Posted by Margie Castejon Gamez in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 10:06 am

My element is Zinc and its atomic number is 30. Zinc was found by Andreas Marggraf in 1668. Zinc is the first element on the group 12 on the periodic table. Zinc is used to make dry cell batteries, roof cladding, and die castings. For the image I chose to draw the silhouette of Andreas Marggraf, since he found this element. I first drew three drafts of what I wanted in the dimensions of 4x6''. Then I traced the drawing into the tracing paper, then from the back I traced the drawing on the styrofoam plate. If I could do this differently I would use different colors. My favorite part was the printing part because it was really fun to get the right amount of paint on the paper and then looking at the results was just amazing.

Matted Print - Phoenix Satterfield

Posted by Phoenix Satterfield in Art - Freshman · Hull · e2 Band on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 9:59 am

I have created a matted print of the element Mercury (Hg, Atomic number of 80). Mercury has been discovered back in ancient times, but we don't know the one person who discovered it. It was mainly known well to the Chinese and the Egyptians (hence the egyptian artwork as my matted print).

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. It's dangerous to handle, since it can do serious (and even fatal) damage to the nervous and immune system. Today, mercury is used in a lot of thermometers, batteries, and fluorescent lights, and it has been misused as a medicine to treat typhoid fever and parasites for a century.

This print started out as a hand drawing on tracing paper. I then turned the paper upside down (so it would show up backwards on the foam) and put the tracing paper on top of foam and traced/shaded it in darker. The traces and shades were printed on the foam. I covered the printed side with paint and pressed the foam onto another piece of paper. The paint design showed on the paper when I lifted up the foam.

I enjoyed the painting part because that was when I brought color to my design. That steap was easy and fun because of how we used more than pencils and paper. Before I completed that step, It was hard to picture what the final painted version would look like. Despite how much I liked it, I would add more paint to the foam if I had to do it again (not every corner of the final product was covered in paint).

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