Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director
Today we were again inspired by the specimens borrowed from the Field Museum's Harris Learning Collection, to create folk-art collages, with a focus on shape. We demonstrated how closed shapes create a silhouette and we also shared images from two picture books in which all the art was created using silhouette only: one book titled "Let it Shine" by Ashely Bryan was very vibrant with bold colors and much overlap of imagery. The second book titled "Shadow" by Suzy Lee focused on mostly dark silhouettes against either white or bold yellow backgrounds. Both examples were exemplary in demonstrating how simple shapes can speak volumes, without inner details like eyes or shirt buttons. That said, we encouraged our students to choose how they would like to approach their collages, with or without inner details.
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| Yinka |
To begin, the students chose one of the animals from the Museum exhibit cases as the subject of their artwork and then selected from a variety of beautifully patterned scrap book paper to create their collages. Their artwork is very eye-caching and will soon be displayed outside the office in the main hall with the line drawings created yesterday. Please stop by to see these in person!
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| Jacob |
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| Dexter |
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| Norah |
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| Anika |
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| Caroline |
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| Caroline |
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| Ms. Bernstein assisting Jadon |
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| Laila |
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| Isaac |
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| Anika |
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| Jordan |
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| Jadon |
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| Joey |
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| Yinka |
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| Leila |
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| Emily |
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| Joseph |
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| Jessica |
We love these! Nice work students! Parents, if you are interested in framing these, Michaels has 12 x 12" inch wooden frames (in the craft aisle, not the framing section) that fit this size paper perfectly : )
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