Polystyrene prints with my extra-curricular art class (7-10 group)

For this group of younger students we used polystyrene sheets and acrylic paint. The students engraved a combination of abstract and representational shapes and patterns into the polystyrene with pencils and rolled the paint over the surface. They then pressed paper onto the sheets and used their hands to apply pressure evenly. Some students found that they did not press their pencils hard enough into the polystyrene surface, so corrected their approach and created an extra print. The prints below are some of the more successful examples of the activity.