ELECTIVE ADVENTURES
Stories in Shapes
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Learn About the Adventure
Current requirements can be seen HERE as well as found in your rank manual - along with great ideas for completion. We guide you through the completion of the requirements in bold below.
Complete at least four of the following requirements.
Visit an art gallery or a museum, explore an art website, or visit your library.
Look closely at pictures of some art with your den or a family member. Decide what you like about the art, and share your ideas with the other Tigers.
Create a piece of art on paper, poster board, or canvas.
Draw or create an art piece using shapes.
Use tangrams to create shapes.
Office/ School Supplies
Art Supplies
#1 | Go See Houston Outdoor Art
If you are unable to visit a museum explore Google Arts & Culture. Be sure to specifically view Abstract art.
#1 | Our Favorite Virtual Abstract Art Exhibits
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
#2 | View 10 of the Best Examples of Abstract Art Pieces in High-Resolution
#3 & #4 | Create Art
Materials:
☐ A family member or friend,
☐ watercolor paper (9x12 cut in half),
☐ marker or pencil,
☐ watercolor paint,
☐ brush,
☐ Optional: Painter’s tape
Directions:
Sit across from your subject (you can both do this at the same time).
Put your paper on a hard surface like a book, clipboard, or sit at a table.
Draw the other person’s portrait without lifting the pencil off the paper AND without looking at the paper.
It should NOT be a perfect drawing! It is more fun if you follow the drawing instructions.
Optional: Use the painter’s tape to tape the paper down to an “art-proof” surface - magazine, newspaper, any paint-friendly surface. Try to cover the margins evenly. It does not have to be perfect.
Use your watercolors to paint in the shape spaces.
Tissue Paper Art
from It’s Always Autumn
Materials:
☐ Something to protect your work surface,
☐ bleedable tissue paper,
☐ scissors,
☐ spray bottle,
☐ water,
☐ canvas board
Directions:
Cut the tissue paper into geometric shapes (triangles, squares, etc.) - not too small, not too big somewhere around 3-4 inches. Set aside.
Spray the canvas with water until it is quite wet.
Place the tissue paper pieces on the wet board. A single layer or over lapping if you want your colors to mix.
Spray a little more water on top.
Wait 20 minutes.
Remove and dispose of the wet tissue paper.
Let the canvas dry.
Voilà!
More Art Projects
#5 | Tangrams
Tangram Puzzle and Shapes.pdfPrint, color, and cut apart your own set of Tangrams!
Use the guide to build puzzles and shapes or create your own!
