Works in Progress -Nearly finished!!! Have to be.. end of term next week.
This is a mixed medium project that I am doing with my year eights classes. We started by finding a picture of a famous person they liked, admired, most chose famous singers. Students copied and pasted their picture it into a word document and turned it into a stencil; by using the picture pop up - you can turn any picture into black and white (no tones). Everyone made their own paper stencil out of the face they chose. I photocopied them all onto cartridge paper A3 size - and students cut them out. Cartridge paper was better, a lot stronger than normal printing paper from the photocopier.
We had a fun lesson experimenting with paint, firstly on paper, each student played with paint first. Then transferred their ideas onto a piece of cotton fabric; stretched out on a table and made a big mess and had fun.
After the fabric was dry we sprayed the back of the stencil with spray adhesive and used black spray cans to spray the faces onto the painted fabric backgrounds.
We glued the fabric onto cardboard - as the fabric gets hard and unattractive! Experiment with attaching fabric to cardboard to get the best result. We had lots of trouble getting our fabric straight and stopping the cardboard from buckling.
Lastly each student had fun with any medium they chose: black felt tips, oil pastels, chalk pastels, acrylic paint, charcoal, glitter, paint in a sauce bottle, anything they wanted to artistically transform their faces into eye catching designs!! Here are some of their banners. Lots more to come.
Finally we used eyelets and made holes to add string (braided, twisted, painted, natural) to hang them around the school. The library and the front offices will look extremely colourful, once they are all finished and handing up for display.
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