Only Blue &White

 

Blue and White

 all around to celebrate Israel Independent Day

plasticine line design on clear sheet , tracing line drawings

on cardboard painted blue.

 border design with white pastel

autistic adults art project

 

special education 2nd grade

* REUSE prepainted acrilic paint on magazine pages, great base to draw with pastels

special education 2nd grade

 

 

autistic adults art project

mobile, seashells

...this was posted 3 summers ago, it is a great summer project. using recycled cardboard and color sand.

This summer project, cardboard mobile "shells" was hanged on the outside swing.

First they created the cardboard collage; on a pre cut recycled cardboard they glued squared shape precut cardcoard. After covering one side of the cardboard they turned the cardboard over and glued shapes on the reverse side. This step was repeated at least twice, and then put aside to dry.

The second object on the mobile is made from wavy cardboard. The shape was stapled to create a 3 dimension shape looking like a shell. The wavy side (outer side) is painted with gauche. For the inner side, I added glue to the paint and with a spoon color sand was poured on the object.

Colorful Masks

Next month we have our costume carnival holiday, Purim

 so here is a post from last year that was never published

No two are the same, easy to make carnival mask.

                                                                         link to another masks for Purim.

The bottom part of the mask is a print effect,

On a precut white cardboard that was folded in the middle, they painted with guache paint. Folding in the middle often to cause the print effect on the oppisit side.

It was put to dry.

The top eye mask is a colorful crep paper collage.
They first tore color crep paper, then the form snakes or round balls from the torn paper. They glued the crep paper on the precut construction paper with the cut out eyes.
The mask was put together once the parts were dry.

RibbonWeb to Create a Design

This art project started with "game", stretching ribbons between the members of the group.

We  taped down a A3 white paper on the table in front of each member and pre cut a number of long ribbons for each member.

In the photo in the left you can see the masking tape in one corner and the pink ribbon that became part his art work.  

One at a time, each member streched a ribbon to a friend, from the edge of the table to a another member on the other side of th table. Using masking tape we attached the ribbons from one to the other.So that at the end of the "Game" the ribbons create one large web through out the table and divided each paper to many segments. Each design is different as you can see.

Using pastels , paint and stickers they filled the web on their paper. Once we finished we undo the ribbon web.

Plasticine Tablet- Chamsa

The Chamsa (Arabic) a lucky talisman shaped like a hand is done as a plasticine tablet on a collage using recycle wrapping paper.

Step 1. Work on a precut card board shape of a Chamsa,
 glue a line drawing of an object, and then cover the drawing with colored plasticine.
work around the object to cover the cardboad shape.
Use sharp tools to embossed pattern on the plasticine
Brush layer of glue on the shape.
Step 2.  While the Chamhsa shape dry creat a wrapping paper collage.
Step 3. Glue cardboard shape on the collage and decorate.

Clay Artproject, Fish

This is a great project to do with autistic adult, always a success.
I allways start with the technique of forming round shape balls the size of a cherry; I like this technique because I do not have to worry about kneading the clay well, and you get a very special boarder edge.

Using a paper plate as a base we filling the plate with clay balls.

Then I give out a cutout shape of a fish and help the members draw the outline of the fish with a sharp tool on the clay.

Once they had the ouline of the fish or object they used mosic stones to fill the inside of the fish.

Around the fish, the background was embossed with an icecream stick.

A layer of glue in put on the total artproject, once dry the paperplate can be removed.

  

Fish , Mix Media with Paper Plate

This was done in 2 session using paper plates. 

The first part was a COLOR BLUE collage, using torn blue paper, tissue paper, yarn etc...

The secend session: the Gold fish, embossed aluminum sheet that was precut in the shape of the fish, then designing the frame with paint and color sand.

We stapled the 2 plates together and  stringed the fish in the frame.

Passover Collage

A Passover Haggadah is a book outlining the order of the Seder. 

Looking at the Haggadah you can see decorative borders, illustrated text boxes and decorative letters to begin paragraphs.

Our Passover collage, using photocopy page of the Haggadah, embossed aluninium sheets and silver paint.

another artproject for Passover

Personal Map Collage

Inspired by Orly Avineri Blog, a beautiful one-artist journal I go back to the first post "personal map" collage.

Orly Avineri  write in her blog 

"I am a creator of intimate maps, just like you, we are all creators of boundless paths, treading continually, laying down tracks for moving forward."

Winter Flower, Cyclaman plant

Another sign of winter is the cyclaman plant growing between the rocks, last year I all so posted a project using a heart shape stancil.

Using old notebook covers that I saved to use as a base for a future art project I cut heart shape stancils.

With that they drew with oil pastels the leaves of the cyclaman plant my favored winter flower. And waterdown guache was used for background.

The flowers was made on a trasparence sheet; using plasticine on the line drawing; in the same technique as the winter snail.

Hanging Artproject Inspired by Chihuly Chandelier

Inspired by Chihuli Chandelier we made this holiday group hanging artproject.

The meterial was donated to our hostel, metallic paper which is easy to cut and leftover self adhesive paper roll, reminds me of scrapbook paper, easy to open, you put paper on it and then return cleartop layer. 

This was a group project, some members cut the metallic paper, everyone designed 2 square self adhesive paper.
With help they formed those cylinders and roped them all together.

Holiday Light, Inspired by Chihuly/ Group Photo

 Here is last week art project "holiday candels" inspired by the glass artist Dale Chihuly  to celebrate the holiday of light, Chanukka.






Yesterday the members were happy to unwrapped the glass bowl and placed the candle in the bowl.
A group photo as promised.

Autumn Leaves, Still Life

 Following last week "Still Life, Black and White" we make this Autumn Leave drawing.

They used cardboard stancil to do the leaves.

We add a layer of transparent paper with a leave pattern made by rubbing with oil pastels on autumn leaves.

Still Life, Black and White

This black and white drawing was introduced with this still life on the right.

They started with the object; either a cat or a vase on the table.

The cat is with the torn paper technique and vase used stickers and pastels. 

While the object dryed, they draw the table using black pastel only.

The gray was done by rubbing cooking oil with q-tip on the pastels lines.

On the drawing they added water down gauche, either red or yellow before gluing the object on or below the table.

Trip to Eilat insired by Paul Klee

 Last week I saw a wonderful post about portrait inspired by Paul Klee using tissue paper (sorry I can't find the blog to acknowlege and post link). Great art idea and I do love Paul Klee.
Our group went to the beach vacation last week so I decided to use that as a suject.
After showing some of Paul Klee work, some of his line drawing on a very colorful grid  background I gave out a precut cardboard fish or palm tree and black pastel to drew the detail texture of subject.
Next they glued cut color tissue paper.

While the object dryed I gave cardboard stancil to make the wave lines fot the grid.

 The city of Eilat is desert so they use a range of oil pastels in those colors to make the grid.
They colored some of the grid with the desert color pastel, and the rest was painted with a water base BLUE paint as the sea.

 Object was glued on the grid background.

I just found this interesting post connecting to this painting by Paul Klee in  Douglas Florian blog.

For Poe tree friday: Águas de Março (The Waters of March) by the late Brazilian composer Tom Jobim.

Remembra in Brazil, in the Southern Demisphere, Marco, March, is the end of summer.

To hear it beautifully sung by the late Elis Regina click on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oNSFQVzNM

The Waters of March