Lesson #8: Adding details and accents to your collage
Part of the unit: Creating an Abstract Still-Life Collage |
LESSON
Materials
Student collages, collage materials, stick glue, scissors, assorted supplies that can be used to accent or add details: paint, brushes, charcoal pencils, conte crayone, wax crayons, ebony pencils, colored pencils
Resources
Reproductions of still-life collages by Picasso, Gris and Braque that have been used in previous lessons.
Turn and talk with a partner to discuss what you each need to do to create emphasis and to make some of the objects more recognizable.
Select appropriate materials and add details and accents to your work.
Display a student collage that demonstrates the most progress.
- What objects can you recognize in this work?
- How did the student use details to make that object recognizable?
- Which area attracts the most attention? Why
STRANDS ADDRESSED:
Art Making: adding details and accents to a collage
Literacy: looking at and discussing art, developing visual arts vocabulary
Making Connections: observing and interpreting the world