Sixth graders are deep into an Asian Unit. We're currently studying Japan, and making artwork in the Japanese style (we're kind of using Japanese artworks as a jumping-off place). As I shared yesterday, we made some suminagashi or marbelized papers (as a born-and-bred Midwesterner, I don't even TRY to say that word!). Those papers will be the backings of our scroll paintings, some of which currently look like this:
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| Drawn, not yet traced and OF COURSE turned the wrong way. |
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This is a talented student, he used one
of my "How to Draw" books that I always have available. |
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| A student who's already added ultra-fine Sharpie. We'll add color via Watercolor Pencils and Metallic Pencils next. |
The first art project we did about Japan was origami. Simple paper cranes, but we added them to a collaborative piece from over the years. It now hangs in our health room (used to hang in our main office but was removed to make the area "less cluttered"
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| Theirs is made of magazine paper, which is awesome looking and very cost effective, but a little difficult for my beginning origami makers. |
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