Personal Art PaperBag Profolio, Special Ed School

 At the end of last year each student went home with a beautiful colorful paperbag portfolio

They worked on a 1/2 of a cardboard

I went around the table and gave each student (special Education) one at a time strips of masking tape, about 10 striped, 10 to 14 c"m long.

They pressed it on the board to form a design.
 

- first they colored with pastels
- then with gauche paint

...even when painted in one color, the masking tape form a lovely texture.

 

I cut their art work in half and glued it to the paperbag

Design PaperBag as ArtBag

both side of the bag are half the artwork done with: masking tape, pastels and paint on a lage 35X50Cm sheet. You can see the effect of the masking tape on the closeup photo below. They loved creating the masking tape design. Beautiful!

Abstract Sukkah

I  started the Jewish New Year with a new teaching job, I teach students age 7 to 21 with  disabilites in a public school for special education only. The school has 8 classes,  with 10 children in a class.
Most art classes are taught in smaller groups, there were 5 teen students in this class.

This abstact art, forming a  bower- a Sukka  for the Jewish holiday Sukkot.
Formed with strips of masking tape, same technic as art project "tree"

-first  striped of masking tape to form the structure of the Sukka

- with pastels drew different textures inside the

 forms

- water down guach to color

- take off masking tape

Complementary Colors - SUN

To complete the color wheel we did the Sun, using the complementary colors yellow and purple.

Step 1: rip purple color strips of paper and glue around the cardboard to pruduce a frame.
Step 2: with prerolled magazine and masking tape they created the sun rays.
Step 3: paint yellow on the sun rays and background.
Step 4: while the artwork is drying, they created the purple shell that you see on the sun. I precut shell and they glued color sand.

Trees

Great artproject, you can see the result.

Step 1. To start all cardboard had a thick, 1 inch masking tape taped it, as the trunk of the tree. Each member had his roll of 1/4 inch masking tape to create branches to the tree.
Step 2. They colored with oil pastel the cardboard.
Step 3. They pulled the masking tape of the cardboard and with water down paint colored the tree; there was only brown and blue paint on the table.
Step 4. I gave out precut cardboard shaped as a hill and precut magazine paper all taken from nature scene. The member created the collage hill.
Step 5. Glued magazine collage below tree.