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Students will create a mixed-media artwork by adding one collage element for the main subject. It starts as a square, but it gets ripped into pieces, crumpled and folded, and cut into separate shapes. Students will investigate pattern and texture-making materials and learn about mixed-media artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The third class, we read The Perfect Square and thought about all the different ways the square changes in the book. How you might arrange them before you glue it down. It helps to put your line or shape down on your paper and think about This time we focused on arranging our lines and shapes in different ways to fill up our paper, and we could trim the lines and shapes with scissors or overlap them to make them fit. Some students thought the artwork reminded them of a maze, game, or apartment buildings.Ĭreated our own collage using pre-cut lines and shapes, using the same 3 colors We noticed that he connected the lines around the shapes, and used three main colors - red, yellow, and blue - other than white and black.
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We noticed that he used straight lines and shapes with straight edges, like squares and rectangles. The following week, we looked at a painting by an artist named Mondrian. After gluing down the shape and adding arms and legs, students used shapes to add facial details like five eyes and sharp, triangle teeth! Below is an example.
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In making this work, what materials and tools do you think the. Collage is when an artist glues one material onto another to form their picture.Īfter learning about a variety of different shapes and reading When A Line Bends, A Shape Begins, we used pre-cut shapes to form a shape monster. Describe the lines, shapes, and colors that you see. PK and Kindergarten artists have been learning about shapes this month, as well as the art of collage.