Govinda_Final Post

Final Project:
Art and collage with textures
First Grade

Goals:
1. Students will identify different textures
2. Students will explore different textural effects
3. Students will brainstorm about a work of art, what materials and techniques may have been used.
4. Students will Design and create an art piece using the collage technique
5. Students will familiarize themselves with different types of art.


Materials:
White paper
Colored construction paper
Different textured paper or cloth
Tissue paper, cardstock, ect.
Glue
Scissors

Procedure:
1. Start out by reading a book that uses different types of texture in the illustrations, it can be actual texture or visual simulated texture. While reading study the pictures on each page and have the student’s brainstorm how they think the picture was made. For Example, Eric Carle uses collage to create his illustrations, which have simulated texture.
2. After reading the book discuss texture and collage making with the students. Talk about different materials that could be used, different patterns, contrast, and paper cutting and folding to create a collage.
3. You can then talk about how many pieces are used to make one picture. All the separate pieces for each part of the picture, to create the finished project.
4. Students could then create their own collage and write a couple of sentences with their picture. They could create whatever they wanted: animals, people, houses, still lifes or imaginary characters.
5. The students would use the different types of cut materials and textures and glue it onto a large piece of construction paper to create their picture. This is also a great activity to use up old scraps of paper from your classroom.

Quotes:
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.
Eric Carle
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Resources:
Eric Carle: http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html
Gail Armstrong: Http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/home_large.asp?artist_id=5&tc=1276633822968
Michiko Tachimoto: http://www.colobockle.jp/contents.html

Liturature:
Any Eric Carle books
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
You Can Make a Collage: A Very Simple How-To Book by Eric Carle
A Color of his own by Leo Lionni
Annie’s Small Train by Michiko Tachimoto

Assesment:
The students should be able to analyze the work of the illustrator and identify that it is a collage.
The students should be able to see how the works were made and how they are put together.
The students should create a collage using a variety of textured papers using various methods as shown in class.
The students complete their collage and explain their picture to the class.

Discussion:
Discuss different materials that could be used to make collages?
How did the colors of the small pieces fit together in the large picture?
What other unconventional ways are people creating art?