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  • Churchland High School
  • Portsmouth, VA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Cliché verre is a combination of painting and or drawing, with photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting, or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film, and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. My students will be learning how to process photographic prints. They will use an inkjet printer to print images that they incorporate into their drawing. They will use the calligraphy pens and ink to create an original drawing on acetate. They will then take their acetate drawing and use the traditional photographic darkroom to make multiple copies of their drawing on traditional photographic paper. This project is wonderful because it incorporates the old with the new! The students get to use the computer to collage and collect images, use the calligraphy pens to transfer their images to the acetate, and use the darkroom to make traditional photographic contact prints. During the process, they learn how to make traditional silver prints, the history of photography and printmaking, and they produce a beautiful series of photographic prints.

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Cliché verre is a combination of painting and or drawing, with photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting, or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film, and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. My students will be learning how to process photographic prints. They will use an inkjet printer to print images that they incorporate into their drawing. They will use the calligraphy pens and ink to create an original drawing on acetate. They will then take their acetate drawing and use the traditional photographic darkroom to make multiple copies of their drawing on traditional photographic paper. This project is wonderful because it incorporates the old with the new! The students get to use the computer to collage and collect images, use the calligraphy pens to transfer their images to the acetate, and use the darkroom to make traditional photographic contact prints. During the process, they learn how to make traditional silver prints, the history of photography and printmaking, and they produce a beautiful series of photographic prints.

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