Summer Project #6

Draw Your Adventure  

What You Need:

• pencils
• paper
• pencil crayons or crayons or pastels or markers

What You Do:

1. Imagine you are going on an adventure.
2. Ask yourself the following questions:
   • "Where are you going on your adventure?" (a distant land, somewhere you've been before? a new place?)
   • "How will you get there?" (by car, plane, train, on foot, via a new mode of transportation?)
   • "Who will you see when you arrive?" (a friend? a family member? a creature? an alien?)
   • "What will you on your adventure?"
3. Now, draw each detail of your adventure!

Summer Project #5

Create your own city! Click on the link below:


Tate Museum - Build a City

Summer Project #4

DRAW LIKE A CAT
If a cat could draw, would she draw her surroundings differently than a human would? How would your room look from a cat's point-of-view? What, in the room, would be interesting to a cat? Suppose a magical spell is cast upon you and you are turned into a cat for one hour? What are you going to draw?
IMAGINE YOURSELF AS A CAT
First, let's practice being a cat...
Stretch
Arch your back
Extend your claws
Roll over
Sit up quickly
Hunch down
Stare at you friend or neighbor
Rub up against your bed or desk
Look around at the room from a cat's viewpoint.

Now think like a cat...
Where would a cat sleep in your room?
Where could she find food?
Where could she find water?
What would she play with?
Where would she go if she didn't want to be bothered?
What would interest a cat most in your room?
What would she mostly likely try to avoid?
Who would she try to make friends with?

Now that you are a “bona fide” cat, decide where in the room you would most like to “hang out” and what you would do. Take your drawing materials to that part of the room and draw it from a cat's perspective.
When you've finished, look at your drawing. Were you able to take the point-of-view of a cat? How is a cat's perspective on things different from your own? How is this shown in your drawing?

Summer Project #3

HOW DO ARTISTS DO IT?
How do they come up with such unusual ideas? Artists often get their best ideas from everyday, ordinary experiences. Eating a bowl of cereal in the morning can be an opportunity to begin your day “thinking like an artist.” You sit down. You scoop up some of those tasty morsels and all of a sudden—BOOM! A spaceship roars out of your spoon! How could that happen, you might ask?  Thinking like an artist sometimes means making the familiar strange, the ordinary extraordinary. Try it out. It's easy to do, once you set your mind to it! 
Materials You Need: magazines with lots of pictures, scissors, glue stick, 9 x 12- inch background paper.
The Project: Go through picture magazines looking for things that might suggest an “artrageous idea.” Don't go for your first idea (that's usually BORING!). Cut out several pictures and then try different combinations. You may need to carefully cut the original background away from some of the images you need. Consider changing size relationships as shown in the picture to the right titled “Big Baby.” Try putting things together we don't usually see together.
Once you have an idea that you think really works, carefully cut out the shapes from their background with scissors. Use a glue stick or white glue to secure your images to a new background paper.
When you finish, put a title on your new picture and show it to someone. If they say, “that's outrageous!” Tell them, “No, that's artrageous!”