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Objective: To have children create a collage using free-form shapes, complementary colors, and linear symmetry.
Objective: To have children create a collage using free-form shapes, complementary colors, and linear symmetry.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
complementary colors - Pairs of color that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
free-form shapes - Made-up shapes that may use geometric shapes, organic shapes, or a combination of geometric and organic shapes that are created by the human imagination or manufactured.
organic shape - A natural shape that is made up of curved or irregular lines. Organic shapes appear in nature.
symmetry or linear symmetry - The kind of balance created when both sides of something are similar or the same.
The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown by Henri Matisse
Free-Form Shapes
Free-Form Shapes
What do you think this picture is about? Shapes that are not geometric or organic shapes, called free-from shapes.
Free-form shapes are human-made shapes that are not geometric or organic. Cars, bikes, kitchen utensils, and furniture can be examples of free-form shapes.
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss - Random House, 1973. In stock: curriculum inventory, school library, and read-aloud
Studio Time: Free-Form Flip Art
Studio Time: Free-Form Flip Art
Materials:
Materials:
construction paper, scissors, glue sticks or glue, paper
Plan
Plan
Think about free-form shapes around you.
Check list:
- Choose two complementary colors.
- Cut out free-form shapes
- Glue on free-form shapes to create symmetry.
Create
Create
Cut out free-form shapes along the edge of a half sheet of paper
2. Glue the half sheet to the whole sheet.
3. Glue the free-form shapes.
Challenge: Matisse Collage
Challenge: Matisse Collage
Create an abstract scene of plants and animals with wrapping paper and construction paper using organic and free-form shapes.
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