APRIL!

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Sunflowers Mixed Media Collage....
Paint, Marker, Paper, Collage Paper....

Completed Amate Bark Paintings & Sunflowers

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Printmaking-

We have design our Laurel Birch inspired cats (or lions) and will be printing them.

Then we will be applying them to our Primary Color Patterned Paint papers.

Cutting some detail into the edges and finishing it off with some FUN!

2- 

Weaving + Stitching + Metal Symmetrical Mask w/ Lines + Shapes

Our burlap was woven with a pattern of paper strips, trimming the edges and then applying it to paper to have a running stitch on the edges of the burlap.  NEXT we work on the mask!  Metal Tooling is so exciting.  The possibilities!

 

3-

Radial Design Weaving with Complimentary colors

We are using a kind of diffusing paper to create a radial design project.  Two sized papers will be designed and then a pair of compliments will be chosen to use.  Sharpie is outlining the design which creates a type of barrier for the paint to stop spreading... I am using liquid watercolor with them that I have watered down.

They are to think about color, positive & negative space and the way they are choosing what gets filled in and what doesn't - One color per paper.

My practice design used primary colors but we are WAY beyond that in 3rd grade!

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Amate Bark Painting Continues on and we will be writing about our work.  Students have had to chose an animal, reptile, bird, bug... the list goes on.  They will not complete their project by incorporating a paragraph about that main object- they will use the write tools concept we have been working on this year in our school.

Topic.   3-4 BIG IDEAS.   Conclusion.

My example for the Panda Bear:

         The giant panda lives in the mountainous regions of central China that are full of bamboo forests.  Bamboo is the main course for pandas to dine on.  They spend almost half of their day, 12 hours, eating bamboo.  It takes 28 pounds of bamboo to meet a panda's daily intake of food.  These mountainous, bamboo regions are very cool and wet.  It is a perfect climate for the panda to live and eat.