From Tate Website
Description: Collage Family portrait
Materials:
A selection of papers including textures created during the last lesson,
fabric scrapes,
old magazines,
tissue paper,
A large piece of paper or board for the background of your work
Scissors and glue
Discussion:
1. With the kids seated on the rug, explain what a collage is: a work of formal art made by putting together different objects like different papers, string, etc. to creating a new whole. Show examples.
Next explain lesson:
- You are going to be really creative and use all sorts of materials to make a collage of your own family.
- First, choose how many people from your family you want to put in. It could be just your Mom and Dad and brother or sister. Or you could put in your grandparents and aunties and uncles as well. The only rule is you have to try to fill the page.
- Start with the head. What kind of head shape do you want to make? Round, oval, triangle? You can either cut or ripe paper to get the shape that you want.
- How can you show who is in the collage when you make up the faces? Does anyone wear glasses or have large or small features?
- What color are their eyes and their hair? Can you use scissors to create the effect of someoneʼs hair? Could you cut into the paper to make bangs?
- Will you use magazine pictures of features like eyes, noses, mouths and ears or could you use pictures of something else to make these in your collage?
- Think carefully about the sorts of clothes your Mum and Dad or your brother and sister wear. What sorts of paper or patterns will look most like them?
- How will you place your family in the collage? Will they be waving or walking?
Perhaps they will be dancing.
- Use all sorts of papers with unusual patterns and mix them together so they clash. Donʼt be afraid to do something crazy!
Project:
Dismiss kids to tables. Walk around and remind them of the steps above. If they finish early, encourage them to add more details, people etc.
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