Class # 2 - September 17, 2019
Cut and Paste
Today's Lesson
We are going to teach the participants how to compose a collage using magazines and newspapers with colors, patterns and symbols to create a composition that relies on the sorting of magazine and newspaper scraps. Participants will learn to identify commonalities (theme, color, content) in their scraps to create a dynamic composition.
Essential Understandings
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Compositions can be made from a variety of different mediums and elements.
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New, unique art can be created from sourcing images that already exist.
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Images can be separated and rearranged to create a new composition.
Outcomes
Students will be able to...
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Describe what composition means.
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Identify what visual elements make up a dynamic composition.
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Explore newspaper and magazines as a material to create a collage composition Explain/discuss their process
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Use the collage to express personal interests.
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Investigate the expressive qualities of art.
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Explore collage techniques to see what they can and cannot accomplish with them.
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Focus on either/all color, imagery, content, pattern, and/or theme.
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Process a prompt and respond to it. I can explore a prompt.
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See connections between individuals that make up a larger group. I can see my unique role in a group.
Skills
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Create creative compositions
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Scanning everyday objects for inspiring or interesting elements
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Creative thinking
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Mechanical skills
In the last lesson, this student really enjoyed using the scissors to cut the paper. However, she struggled to cut out the complex shape of the hand. This project was perfect for her to practice cutting. She was able to cut out pages in the magazine and tear around the image that she wanted.
She also struggled at first to decide what to include in her collages, and was overwhelmed by the amount of images in the magazine. We helped her by choosing one topic to focus on for each of her collages. Her first one was food focused, and her second (pictured) was animal focused. This helped her narrow down what to look for in the magazines, and gave her a sense of excitement when she found an image matching her theme.
This student struggled with what images she wanted to collect and use for her collage. So we came up with the idea to use a collection of colors instead. She experimented with cutting them out to mimic a piece of stained glass in a window. During this piece she was frustrated with the scissors and her pieces not fitting together the way that she wanted them to.
So for her next piece she started to rip the pieces of paper into sections that she could arrange on the paper. She also used liquid glue instead of a glue stick and liked that that she could put lines of glue down without they drying faster than she could arrange her pieces. She was very interested in the different ways that the ripped pices could be layered in her composition and the differences between the sharp cut edges of her first piece and the jagged torn edges in her second.
This student chose her birthday as a her theme idea for her collage she chose the word october because that is the month that she was born in and then she also picked a date that corresponded with her birthday as well. She chose all of her images as black and white so that she could add color with a marker.
She chose to add line work with her composition that mimics that of the images that she chose. She also chose to color in parts of the images in her collage with the blue marker she was using to fill the white spaces that were left.
The collage on the left was created by a student who focused on finding images that reflected their personal interests. The theme they chose is clearly reflected in the piece through a variety of objects whether that is characters, things, or food, etc. The black and white design was an exciting find for the student as it added a flow to their collage in which the rest of the images were arranged around.
In the opposite collage this student collaborated with another, one assisting the other to make the collage of faces. Both students employed their specific strengths whether that was decision making, cutting, or pasting to assemble their collage together. The students were communicating back and forth about the logistics of making the collage and how it should look. The end results successfully fulfilled the project guidelines--and both students were pleased with the end result.
