My Stitched Papercut Map Inspired by Matisse

 

Saturday morning I felt I needed to create,  to stitch together the remaining "leave' shape that I colored & cut weeks ago using an page from an old map book.  … Iooking for in that paperblock  I found  my drawing "women with a green hat ", I drew over a year ago.

last night I stitched the forms together.  

I use trasparent paper to design the stitches....   unconsciously I can see that I was inspired by Henri Matisse 

...it is a wonder how the creative process .....

 

  

Personal Hand, End of the Year Artwork

waving goodbye to the school year, hello summer! 

Personal HAND artproject, ,

The older classes, young teens SpcialEd, made a collage, using precut circle for the background.

his background was so well done that I encouraged

 him to glue the hand on the left of the background.

 

The younger group, 2nd grade special education,  worked with crayon only on large color paper.

They waited patiently for me to draw around their hands and then colored in and around the hand shape. This made it very personal drawing

  

 

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."

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.

Iris Magnet, Color Tissue Paper

Colorful magnets were made after a field trip to see the Iris feild.

Meterials:

2.5 X 7 inch magnets

strips of newspaper painted in green

line drawing of flower

color tissue paper

Step 1: rip and wrinkle color tissue paper and form many small round balls.

To upgrade and form the lines form snakes from the tissue paper.

Step 2: glue the color round paper balls on line drawings, let dry.

Step 3: prepare background, glue strips of color newspaper on magnet.

Step 4: cut around the flower and glue on magnet, add stem

Recycle Art- Newspaper Rolls

A recycle art project, using newspaper rolls.

The group rolled newspaper to form long cylinders, they using masking tape to hold the form.
Using masking tape they attached the rolls and created the composition on the board.

It was easy to paint and decorate.

The same tecnique is used to create a picture of

the sun and sea, see my last post .

Sun +Surf, Recycle Newspaper Rolls

Roll newspaper into long cylinders; tape the rolls with masking tape.

Create a picture with the rolled newspaper; use masking tape to attach rolls to board.

Color with gauche.

Once it is dry add details ; we added the surfbaord.

collage, making my map

I gave out 2 pages from an old map (3X4inches), they were glued on boardcoard.

With a marker the line on the maps were connected, new lines were added all around the map to create a new map.

Colores pastels inside shapes.

Paper collage on areas on map, color matches areas (example green for forest...)