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Tag Archives: Cut-paper Collages
Stained Glass? Tissue, Actually.
Grade 2/3 : Paper Collage for Windows This is a fun and easy one, with jewel-like results that the kids (and I) LOVE! Collage. What is it? What happens when we overlap different colours and shapes? What happens when those … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Assemblages, Cut-paper Collages, Drawing, Windows
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Cut Paper Masks
Grade 5/6: Exploring the Mask in Paper I have done this project before in two schools, with much success. It being my very first lesson with this particular class offered some unknowns, but I am quite pleased with the results … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Masks, Symmetry
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Space Exploration
Grade 2/3: A 3-Step Method for Space Pictures We have a Canadian in space, blogging daily – so why not do a project that puts us there? (Sort of.) Class 1. After a brief introduction that got them thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged Assemblages, Cardboard, Cut-paper Collages, Drawing, Planets, Rockets
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Amate Paper Cutouts
Grade 4/5: Exploring Symmetry with Paper Cutouts The discussion began with the idea of symmetry and mirror image, and then we went on to looking at the Otomi people of east central Mexico (Pueblo region). The women produced paper bark … Continue reading
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Synthetic Cubism and Even More Guitars (and Violins!)
Grade 7/8 Drawn and Altered Collage Class 1. Moving on from their earlier lesson & project on Cubism, we spent some more time looking at images of the movement that evolved out of it: Synthetic Cubism. We looked at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Assemblages, Cubism, Cut-paper Collages, Drawing
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Ola! Mexican Guitars!
Grade 2/3: Drawing and Painting Guitars (2 double period classes) To start, I brought in a couple of visuals. Some pictures of brightly coloured Mexican guitars, along with the equally colourful musicians who play them AND my friend Brian’s custom … Continue reading
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Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting
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Fall Leaves on an Autumn Day
Grade 2/3: Tissue Paper Leaves This was a great first lesson, with me as the ‘guest artist’ coming into this class, one fine October day. How nice to meet this lovely group of kids, and to … Continue reading
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Tagged Colour, Cut-paper Collages, Fall
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Enter, Notan.
Grade 5: Flipping the Positive and Negative With Notan I recently purchased this book, Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design and even though I have so far only taken a rather cursory look at it – I found the images … Continue reading
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Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Pattern
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Dabbling in Surrealism
Grade 5: Learning Surrealism, Constructing Pictures Session 1 I came to the class with an example of a picture I had created using magazine cutouts in the style drawing from an art and cultural movement known as Surrealism, that began … Continue reading
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Torn Paper Portraits
Grade 7/8: Collage Portraits This project had the ability to go beyond the Art Room, and so it did. After completion of the art project, the teacher assigned research and reporting on each personality. The learning went on! To start: … Continue reading
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Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Mosaic
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