This lesson was to introduce an alternative method of sandpainting like Native Americans practiced and to give us students a better understanding of Native American art and the patterns they used. We had to take one piece sand paper and then color very hard on it using different patterns the Native Americans used; the student that taught this gave us different examples of patterns to use. We were told to color very hard on the sandpaper and to try to cover the entire piece of paper in order to have a better result. After we were done coloring the sandpaper we had to go and iron a white piece of paper over top. By doing this ironing method the color would "bleed" onto the white piece of paper and it would show the same pattern that was used on the sandpaper; a mirror image. As you can see my iron was a little hot so that is why the pattern didn't completely show on the ironed paper, it got too hot and melted the coloring away. An extension to this project could be students could have to find a specific pattern that was used and do research on it. After doing research they would have to try and make a replica of that same pattern and then tell the history behind it; almost like a research paper, but with visual aids.
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