365 Days of Art – Collage Character

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 48

In Carla Sonheim’s class today we were instructed to take some of our art papers and with our eyes closed cut out random shapes. Then we were to create a character of our choice. We weren’t suppose to have a character in mind when doing the cutting. Instead the character would appear as we tried to arrange some to the shapes.

Gluing the pieces down was the last step in the process. As we created a character Carla recommended taking a photograph of each version and move the pieces around until you came up with a character you liked.

I found one piece of paper that looked like bird legs running so I build my character around that. Here is the process that I went through before gluing my final character in place.

On my final piece I grounded my little roadrunner with a strip of ground and put a cloud over her head. To me she looked like she was running off to a party.

365 Days of Art – Strips

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 47 and week 7

I’m a little behind with my collage art so I’ve posted two assignments back to back. This week’s assignment was to take two different images and cut them into thin strips of equal size and alternate them to create a new image.

For my first one I had two different images of snakes and for the second one I used an image of a tulip and one of my art papers that had similar colours.

365 Days of Art – Image Pairings

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 46 and week six

I’ve returned to work on some more of the 50 creative exercises from Randel Plowman’s book The Collage Workbook. Evelyn Flint and her sister, Carolyn, have challenged themselves to work on one exercise each week and I’ve decided to join them in their challenge.

For week six we were instructed to take an image and cut it into two pieces and create two different collages. I found an image of a Joan Baez and Bob Dylan poster that I used for my two collages this week.

365 Days of Art – Colour Plunge

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 34 and challenge #5 from The Collage Workbook

This week (I’ve finally caught up) Randel Plowman asks us to choose a colour and make a monochromatic collage using various shade of that colour. I’ve made two. The first one is mostly reds and the second one contains a variety of pinks. I’ve already starting using my art papers that I made yesterday. Check out Evelyn Flint’s colour plunge. They’re amazing.

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365 Days of Art – Colour Charge

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 32

I’ve gone back to doing more collage. This is from the Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman. It is assignment #4 where you apply colour to a collage that is primarily black and white. In the first one I added some touches of red using red paper and a red photograph and in the second one I added blue using a highlighter and chalk pastels.

Thanks to Evelyn Flint for starting this weekly collage challenge and introducing me to Plowman’s book.

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365 Days of Art – Day 22

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….did another collage ….assignment #3 from the Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman

This week’s collage is called Black and White. Some of the drawings and marks are my own work (e.g., the bird, ink face).

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365 Days of Art – White Out

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….on day 16 I’ve gone back to making a collage

The second assignment in the book The Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman is called White Out. I had to create a collage using only shades of white. It was a lot of fun and I took my time trying different materials and where to place them.

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365 Days of Art – Day 4

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….decided to switch it up a bit

Today I found some leaves pressed in one of my sketch books and I decided to use it as a collage element. I was also inspired by Herma from Studio Mastarre who draws very whimsical portraits. I haven’t tried to copy her style with today’s post but at some point I’d like to try my hand at it. I did use pencil to start with and I added some watercolour to finish.

More Fun Faces

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Mama Cormier

….a few more art projects done by my grade 3 classes

This last assignment on drawing faces has to be one of my favourite projects. If I ever get called back to do supply work in an art class I’ll definitely pull this one out of my bag of tricks if I have to come up with my own lesson plan.

More Collage Art by my Grade Three Classes

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Mama Cormier

….I love the finished collage projects that my grade three art classes produced

It took close to three weeks to get this assignment finished. The first week we collected and assorted coloured pages from magazine and discarded books. The second week we cut up and glued geometric shapes into cityscapes or country landscapes. In the final class we added line detail and dots to give the scene texture and interest. I think the boys and girls did a wonderful job.