Day 45
Bell StART
Hanko
Write in Your Sketch Book:
Today’s Goal:
1. Prepare three preliminary drawings in your sketch book
2. With the lino cutter or dental tool cut your design on
the four sides of a gum eraser
3. Design must create a continuous image
4. Be aware that your eraser can crumble easily
5. Begin to print with your chop
Day 45
Bell StART
Hanko
Chop criteria:
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One print must be in your sketch book.
Plus, make four prints of the chop on the
cut paper provided for you.
*Your teacher will demonstrate how to roll out
ink and make it “tacky” for a successful print.
Day 46
Bell StART
Hanko
Write in Your Sketch Book:
1. Finish printing your bookmarks
2. If you have completed 4 bookmarks, use the
pens provided to enhance the pattern on one
of your book marks.
3. Please take your clay and cardboard sculpture
home.
Day 47
Bell StART
Illuminated Letter
Write in Your Sketch Book:
To inspire the design of your own Illuminated letter we
will watch the movie:
The Secret of Kells
2010, Academy Award nominee
for Best Animated Feature
After watching the movie discuss this question with your
tablemates, then write down the answers in your
sketch book.
How does the video try to “illuminate” the viewer?
Consider both the message and the visuals.
Early Medieval Sites in Europe
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The Secret of Kells
• Film is based on the Book of Kells, an illuminated
manuscript Gospel book in Latin containing the four
Gospels of the New Testament located in Dublin,
Ireland.
• The film also draws upon Celtic mythology,
examples include: Crom Cruach, a pre-Christian
Irish deity and the reference to the poetic genre of
Aislings, or vision poems, in which a poet is
confronted by a dream or vision of a seeress, a
woman who predicts events or developments, in
the naming of the forest sprite encountered by
Brendan.
The Book of Kells
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Medieval manuscript
Late 8th or early 9th century
Iona and Kells, on the Irish mainland
680 surviving pages, only two have no decoration
Made by four scribes and three illuminators
185 calves were slaughtered to make the vellum
Colors for paintings came from as far away as
Afghanistan
Spend time looking at it.
See how much you can find.
Can you find cats and mice?
Do you find angels?
What about a moth or butterfly?
Chi-rho-iota (XPI) page,
folio 34 recto of the Book of Kells,
probably from Iona, Scotland,
late eighth or early ninth century.
Tempera on vellum, 1’ 1” X 9 1/2”.
Trinity College Library, Dublin.
angels
cats pounce on a pair of mice
Complex details of the Chi Rho monogram page
moth or butterfly
Almost all of the folios of the Book of Kells contain
small illuminations like this decorated initial.
Day 48
Bell StART
Hanko
Write in Your Sketch Book:
Remember, after watching the movie, be prepared,
discuss this question with your tablemates, then write
down the answers in your sketch book.
How does the video try to “illuminate” the viewer?
Consider both the message and the visuals.
**Hand-in your sketch book to be graded