• These challenges are designed to keep the creative part of your brain playing until the end of June. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to complete as many of the challenges listed below as you can. It is not mandatory. Document your work by taking photos and adding them to your VIS Folder in your Drive.

Stage 1: Complete 2 challenges in any order.

Stage 2: Complete 5 challenges.

Stage 3: Complete 8 or more challenges!

The Challenges:

• Create a “Me” Collage: Use magazines, photos and your own drawings to create an “About Me” collage. If you need inspiration, go to Google images and search for “collage artist”.
• Read a graphic novel or comic. Then, create a bookmark for the book
• Recycled Art: Find discarded objects around the house (old junk mail, pieces of wood scraps, random toys or old stickers you don’t want anymore) and create a new inspiring collage or sculpture.
• Photomontage: Take lots of photos. Cut out faces or parts of the pictures and combine them to create an interesting photomontage. Look up the photomontages of David Hockney.
• Collaborative Artwork: Collaborate with a family member at home and make a work of art together!
• Make a piñata using paper mache. Break it with some friends via Live Streaming! Take pictures as you make your creation and when you break it.
• Building: Using Legos, blocks or other building materials, spend an hour or so designing a unique construction.
• Musical Instrument: Create a musical instrument using materials around your house. Documentation: photograph the instrument or take a video of yourself using it
• Sculpture: Design an artwork to hang from a branch of a tree. Documentation: Take a photograph of the sculpture in the tree.
• Ditch the Paint Brush! Look around your house for some unorthodox materials that you could use instead of a paintbrush; such as bubble wrap, paint filled eggs thrown at a canvas, fruit, or even forks. Documentation: Create a painting with your new “paintbrush” and photograph it.
• Art Careers: Does a job in the Arts interest you? It could be something related to drama, visual arts or music. Create an art piece that showcases this dream job.
• Illustrate two opposing points of view. For example, you could create a paper mache mask where one half represents happiness and the other half sadness.
• Fashion. Decorate a T-shirt, a pair of shoes... or sew a piece of clothing! Ideas: tye-dye, stencils, turn something old into a different object, paint pens, or fabric paint.
• Rock painting. Find the perfect rock. Decorate it with paints or anything else you'd like!

Inspirational Artists: Jen Garrido, Jackson Pollock

Key terms:

• Organic Lines
• tone
• Shade
• Analogous Colours
• Abstract
• Unity and Harmony

Inspirational Artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo

Key terms:

• proportions
• contrast
• space
• figure/form
• movement
• skeletal

Inspirational Artists:

• Louise Bourgeois (Maman - Open form sculpture)
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty - Closed form sculpture)

Key Terms:

• Closed form sculpture
• Open form sculpture (bowl)
• Weight (with colour)
• Pinch pot
• Clay
• Texture

Inspiration:

• Sonic Music Fingerprints (Spotify algorithm)
• Pendulum Paintings
• Math graphs

Key Terms:

• Graphs
• Force
• Lines: spiral, organic, rhythmic
• Movement and Repetition
• Shape and Form

Inspirational Artists:

• Tom Thomson
• Lauren Harris

Key Terms:

• Landscape Perspectives
  • Foreground,
  • Middle ground
  • Background)
  • Natural shape and form
• Origami

Inspirational Artist:

• Jime Dine

Key Terms:

• Pop Art
• Abstract Art
• Symbols
• Contrast of colour
• Geometric vs. organic lines

Inspirations:

• Photography
• Eric Telchin

Key Terms:

• Depth of Field
• Aspect Ratio
• Symbol