Grade 5

Thinking of all of you! I hope you are drawing and creating each day using all the imagination you hold within!

...missing you...

This video is about an artist who needs only her fingers and tubes of paint to create her art. Iris Scott stopped using brushes when she was tired of washing them between colors she was using. Iris decided to use her finger to apply fresh, new color into her painting one day. From that point on, with gloves on, she dips her fingers into paint and applies it on the canvas creating texture with her hands she couldn't achieve with a brush.

Maybe you can try the same without a brush. It's great having the paint on your hands and controlling it in a way you cannot using a brush!

F-15 Origami Airplane

For those of you who were interested in a basic airplane through origami, this design is definitely manageable after all the skills you have learned!

With this project in particular, starting out with a square is not necessary. Standard 8.5 x 11" paper is all you need!

Send me your creations at: diane.scherny@swanseaschools.com

I'd love to see them!

Origami Star

Lots of good skills were learned as we worked through the origami radial relief design. Many of you asked about shape origami designs...I thought we could start with this star.

Art Enrichment Learning:

To begin, you must be working with a square paper equal on all sides. 10-12" is a good size to start.
Old maps or newspapers are great to use if you don't have lightweight colored paper.
Remember to fold on a table to crease the paper
You have done the tent fold, the kite and sumarai...you can do anything from all you have learned!

Coil Pot-making

Although we just began our pot-making, some details are shown in this video that we will be covering as we progress with the coil pots again.

Paper Pottery

Check this link out for newspaper pottery you can do at home!

Art Enrichment Learning:

Start by cutting newspaper or colored paper strips 1"wide by the width of the newspaper. The standard width of a single newpaper page is about 15".
You will begin to tightly coil the paper into itself which will create the base of your pot/cup.
It is important taping each end of paper at the end of the coil and the beginning of the next strip you will also coil.
Continue wrapping the newspaper around in a circular pattern until your "puck" is about 4" in diameter.
As shown in video, using your thumbs on the inside of the bowl, slowly but surely raise up the sides carefully to achieve the height you'd like for your sculpture.
For the base, keep at least the diameter/size of a Ritz cracker so your form is sold and will not wobble.
If you are not satisfied, you can always tap the paper coil back into its original puck form and begin again!
For a finishing touch, you may brush the paper sculpture with glue or Mod Podge.

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