4-5 Lesson 5

Face Collage

WHAT ARE WE DOING? (Objective) : We will create a Face Collage based on objects from a theme of your choice (examples: Food, Candy, Cars, Jewlery )

VOCABULARY:

Collage - a piece of art made by gluing different materials ( shapes, magazine pictures, cloth) on to another paper.

Distortion - when a real object/person looks bent out of shape, stretched, or the parts of the whole do not seem to fit together properly.

MATERIALS:

White paper

Colored paper or brown paper grocery bag

Old magazines, store coupons

Pencil

Scissors and glue or glue stick

THINK AND DO:

Did you know you could use old magazines or photos from newspaper ads to make art? That is called a collage. Artists who experimented with this technique include Pablo Picasso, Hannah Hoch, Romare Bearden.

Can you see what magazine or newspaper pictures were used?

Pablo Picasso

Guitar, 1913

Hannah Hoch

What happens when this artist puts a picture of a head on a picture of a different body? What if part of that head is an animal?

Does it look real? Does it look weird? It might look distorted!

Flucht, (Flight),1931

Romare Bearden

Can you see what part of this picture is from magazines and what part is painted?

Three Folk Musicians, 1967

Let's try making a FACE using the collage technique!

Follow the steps below:

Think of a THEME of something that interests you. Is it food, electronics, cars, jewelry?
Once you decide on your THEME you will need to find these images in an old magazine, or newspaper, or the coupons you get in the mail.
You will need images that could be EYES, NOSE, MOUTH, EARS AND HAIR . Tear out the pages of possible images for those features. Give your self choices!
In this example I chose FOOD. You might have to change your THEME depending on what kind of images you can find. BUT STICK TO ONE THEME!!

5. Before you glue you will need to make an OVAL for the face. It is fun to use different colored paper for this that is not a realistic skin tone. Try blue or pink or yellow.

If you don't have colored paper you can cut out an oval from a brown grocery bag.

Fold the oval in half because, GUESS WHAT? That's where the eyes go, right in the middle of the face!

6. Begin to choose your images and CUT THEM OUT VERY CAREFULLY.

Start to arrange the shapes on the face. I used LETTUCE for hair and COOKIES for eyes. Notice that I used many different pictures and put them together to create the hair.

Try different possibilities. Here are two MOUTH choices. One is more REALISTIC, and one is more DISTORTED

ADD a neck and shoulders and make sure all your edges are glued down well.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE: LOOK AT YOUR COLLAGE. Write on the back why you chose your THEME. Did the pictures you collaged make a REALISTIC face or a DISTORTED face? Write your "artist" name on the BOTTOM!

Creating—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

4.VA:Cr1.2 - Brainstorm individual and collaborative approaches to a creative art or design problem.

5.VA:Cr1.2 - Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making

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