If it's Friday..it must be ART!

I recently posted about taking my class to the Museum of Inuit Art, located here in Toronto.  Our class went there to view a variety of print making techniques prior creating our own lino block prints.  While we were at the museum we saw a special exhibit of work by a Canadian Inuit Artist.  All the works were done with pencil crayon on black paper.  I was intrigued, and the artist in residence suggested that since my class has so many accomplished artists in it, we should try the technique back at school.  

I went out and purchased some black cardstock.  This was the only black paper I could find which I felt had enough depth of colour to use as a medium to create the artwork on.  The students chose an animal from the Inuit or First Nations culture and created a fantastic representation of it using only pencil crayons.  They had to press very hard to get a good impression on the rich black background, but the result was worth the extra effort.