In year 9 at Killester College the students study mixed media drawing, ceramics & lino printing during
their semester of Art. Our school is a very multi-cultural catholic girls school and we believe it is
important that our students study accompanying artists to the media that the students can relate to.

For our lino printing unit the girls were introduced to the wonderful work of Margaret Preston. They each
researched her life completing a biography with their 6 favourite images of her work. The students
studied these prints analyzing her use of imagery from native Australian Flora, Fauna & Aboriginal
influences. They also looked at her use of positive & negative space, line work & patterning.

The students then did their own observational drawings of native Australian flora. The students then looked
at composition and worked out how to crop their drawing to create the best effect. The images were then
transferred onto  Silk Cut lino blocks with carbon paper, carved with a variety of lino cutting
tools & printed using Graphic Water Based Block Ink onto 130gsm Cartridge paper. Some of these
prints were then hand coloured using  Art Spectrum Pigmented coloured Inks.

Year 9

De Leggo
Killester College