Assemblage With Old Watercolor Sets

This was a wonderfully challenging project; you could actually see the thinking going on.

The Ever-Changing
by Reese

My assemblage is about a person's journey through life.  Sometimes we are struggling, sometimes we feel like we have the world in our hands, at other times maybe we are just at peace.  The silver piece represents how there is always hope and dreams in us. 

Esmae 

My assemblage is about being lost in the moment of doing something you love. 

Gabriel 

We've used old watercolor sets for the base of our assemblages. The materials were simple in nature but could be transformed depending on the artistry each student brought to the challenge. Hot glue or modpodge  was used to adhere the materials to the shallow boxes.  

Found Faces...Found Inspiration

A Found Lesson Within A Lesson
Yesterday I went to a workshop at the Museum of Fine Arts called Learning Through Art.  The focus is to teach Language Arts, Math, Science, etc through looking at artworks found at the museum and on the museum's site.  At one point, we were working on an  Impressionist piece  and a symmetrical mask.   Tape was one of the materials used.  Towards the end of the project we were to pull the tape off (and then discard it).  As we pulled and gathered the tape to throw it away I saw a face looking back at me.  The jumbled pieces of tape arranged themselves just so as to become a face.  Has that ever happened to you? Of course after that I walked around  asking for everyone's  tape wads.  Luckily, there was one left (She looks like a very pensive frog to me) .  Had I found more tape I'm sure bodies would of been found also.  Incorporating math and art could be done by asking questions such as what percentage of your piece is in warm colors?  What percentage is in cool?    What forms have we used here?  Language Arts...who did you discover?  Write a poem about your character, etc. Imagine a class set of these exhibited in a shadow box presentation...pretty magnificent I think!   By the way, these are a little bit smaller than  a golf ball.