Loretta Grayson Inspired Geometric Landscapes

This project will definitely need your maths skills!
Materials:
A3 Paper
Lead Pencil
Ruler
Colours (ideally coloured pencils, but felt pens or crayons will also work)
Have a look at the work of Australian artist, Loretta Grayson.
Notice how she uses patterns and blocks of warm and cool colours.

Step 1:
Use a lead pencil to lightly draw one of two circles (you could also do an oval or 'teardrop' shape), into the middle section of your paper. You can choose to overlap your shapes and they don't need to be in the very centre of your page.
Step 2:
Draw a tree in each shape that starts at the bottom of your page and go up into and fills the circle or oval/teardrop. In the background, draw a few simple 'landscape lines'.

Step 3:
This is the tricky bit and it is important that you use your ruler! Create a grid (approximately 2cm by 2cm) that goes through the whole image, EXCEPT for the landscape lines. Use your maths skills to ensure that lines are straight and accurate.

Step 4:
Decide on a colour scheme! You can use cool colours for the tree branches and warm colours for the sky or the other way around. Or you might decide to mix them up a bit. Go back to Loretta Grayson's work and see what you think looks good!

Step 5:
Add shades of black and white to the tree trunk and a selection of 'earthy' colours to your landscape lines.

Student Examples;

White Paper Invention Test

This project is definitely a chance to be creative with limited materials!
The only materials you can use are:
-White card
-As many white paper off cuts as you want
-Scissors
-Glue (Glue sticks and Hot Glue if you have access to them and with adult supervision)

*no pencils and definitely no erasers!

and with these materials you need to create a......sculptural artwork!!

This about all the ways that you can connect paper and card. Have a look at this blog post and the student samples below to get some ideas and inspiration.

Photograph your finished sculpture. If you can, use a sheet or piece of fabric as a backdrop and experiment with lighting using a torch or small lamp.

**Optional extension: Use your the photograph and have a go at drawing it in black and white. Remember to look closely at where the dark and light falls on your sculpture to help you with adding shading.

Celia

Alex

Kohsei

Abby

Maria

Yi-Jing

Pan

Embossed Owls

Materials: Card (A5 or A4 size)
Pencil
PVA Glue (ideally in a bottle with a narrow tip)
Aluminium Foil
Sharpies, felt pens or coloured permanent markers
*Optional: Spray Adhesive (you can just paint on a thin layer of PVA glue to adhere the foil to the card instead)

Watch the demo video on YouTube and read the instructions below before making your embossed owl.

 We first drew our designs onto white card. Then we outlined them with a permanent marker so that the lines were easy to see. Using PVA glue we 'drew' a glue line over the owl outline and left it to dry.

When the glue was dry, we sprayed a small amount of spray adhesive onto the owl and covered it with a sheet of aluminium foil (make the foil sheet slightly larger than the piece of white card). We then gently rubbed over the foil so that it adhered closely to the lines of dried glue underneath. To emboss we used blunt pencils to add designs onto the owl and patterns into the background.

Lastly we added some colour. We worked straight onto the foil with coloured permanent markers. If students wanted to make their colours lighter and a bit more subtle, we used a tissue to rub off most of the permanent marker as soon as it was applied.