Monday, October 5, 2009

Inspiration from Young at Art - COLLAGE

The San Francisco Youth Arts Festival "Young at Art" at the DeYoung Museum in May was full of so many creative, inventive and inspiring ideas for art exploration with kids. The following are a few of my favorite projects using different COLLAGE techniques:


This fabric collage was really quite marvelous. I'm guessing that this is an illustration of a story about a sad seamstress, as the image really does have quite alot to say. I especially love the use of a real needle in her hand and buttons and rhinestones to make her jewelry and her tears.





This would be a simple project for Kinders to be able to approach. The results are quite charming and would make for a fun exploration of color, line, form and texture.





Simple in execution, this little collage is big on surreal conceptualization! It really gave me a giggle.





The attention to detail on these paper mosaics is truly incredible. These kids have an unbelievable amount of patience and the ability to sustain their attention span!!







These color tissue collage maps would make a vibrant art activity to go with a geography lesson:






I loved these cityscape collages that featured cut outs from those free San Francisco Real Estate magazines. It's a great lesson in perspective, as you can have the kids draw the diminishing line of the street and then built their collage around the lines, using larger scale buildings towards the front and getting smaller in the back. It's also super fun because it does truly end up looking like a San Francisco Street.







There were some really funky chickens done in collage as well, with both paper and fabric. Something about the texture of feathers translates really nicely to collage:



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