Day Four At Home Learning

Hello my wonderful artists and welcome to another official learn at home day! I have another video to share with you about today's activities.

Today's focus is collage. What is collage you may ask? Collage, from the French verb coller, meaning 'to glue,' is the artistic process of gluing and assembling various materials together to make a picture.  According to today's chart, you have two choices; 

Cut or tear magazines, newspapers and scrap papers to make a landscape

OR 

Create a flower or insect using magazines, newspapers, and any other items around your house such as buttons or pasta.

Many illustrators of children's books use collage to create their pictures. One example of an illustrator who uses collage is Eric Carle. You may recognize his art in books like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "The Grouchy Ladybug", and "Brown Bear Brown Bear". Eric Carle likes to paint, cut, and overlap tissue paper to create his animals and characters. Watch the video below to watch the artist create his collage style illustrations for the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

If you would like to listen to Eric Carle, author and illustrator, read his book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", watch the video below.

Collage artist and illustrator Chris Haughton makes lots of different things from books to puppets to rugs to apps. Check out the film at Tate Kids to see how he makes his art work using collage and where he gets his ideas for art.

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-illustrator

When you are creating your collage at home, feel free to use any junk mail or newspapers you have around the house. In my art making, a cereal box was used to hold my paper shapes and I found lots of color in ads and the shopper weekly. At the end of your art making, don't forget to upload your art to Artsonia and tell me about your collage art.

Have fun creating and using your skills in imagination!

Silly Self Portraits

You may have noticed your kindergartner is obsessed with folding strips of paper into bouncy accordion folds. I must apologize for we have been working on paper folding in art and students are very excited with their bouncy creations. We used these basic accordion folded strips to create the arms and neck for our silly self portraits.

Kindergarten silly self portraits.

To create the basic bouncy accordion fold, students glued the ends of two strips of construction paper together at a right angle (Letter "L").  Then, we folded the bottom strip over the top strip, making sure two strips remained perpendicular.  Next, students continued criss-crossing bottom over top, keeping the strips at right angles to each other. Finally, students glued the end to the top of the final piece. 

Students not only practiced their folding skills, but also practiced their cutting skills with more difficult cuts like tracing our hands with our fingers open and cutting around each finger. We also drew our head with hair and practiced cutting around the outside shape. When creating our self portraits, we discussed how each of us was unique and different and that our skin color was also unique and different. We choose appropriate marker and paper colors to reflect our true skin color using the following products.

Multicultural Markers from Crayola and Multicultural construction paper.

Mirrors were used to make sure we drew every part of our face. Much attention was placed on the eye where we discussed the location in the center of the face, the pupil, the iris, and their shapes. Students could add yarn to make their portrait more life like.