Abstract Circles Project
Description:
Students will focus on texture, color, composition and overlapping. Students will use circular viewfinders to find abstract images of colors within a magazine. Students will enlarge and overlap the abstract images and blend oil pastels to recreate the colors.
Supplies:
Magazines
Circle Viewfinders (cut out a circle in tagboard pieces)
Pens
Pencils
Oil Pastels
Scissors
Compass
Paper towels
Blending stumps
Paper 8 1/2 x 11
Paper 17x22 (if gridding and enlarging)
Rulers (if gridding and enlarging)
Vocabulary-
Texture
Gridding/Enlargement
Abstract
Composition
Color
Overlapping
Procedure:
- Students will start with a discussion of texture, and what it is, what it looks like.
- Discussion of abstract, overlapping, and what is good composition looks like is also necessary.
- Using a variety of different magazines, have students use their viewfinders to look for interesting textures and color compositions.
- Have them cut out AT LEAST 10 or more to have a good variety to choose from.
- Students will use a compass to draw at LEAST 5 circles of a variety of sizes, using the entire paper and overlapping in at LEAST 2 places.
- Students will then draw a grid (pie style) on their pieces, and LIGHTLY in their circles on the paper.
- Redraw each section in the circles onto the larger circles.
- To enlarge: Grid with ½ inch squares on the small paper, and grid with 1 inch squares on the large paper.
- Add color with oil pastels. Stress blending with a blending stump or paper towels, and getting all the way to edges of the lines to prevent auras.
- HAVE FUN!!
