Introduction

You will discover the wonderful and beautiful quilt paintings by the lovely artist Faith Ringgold and journey with her as we fly over the glittering city under the sparkling stars in  her story Tar Beach.

Procedure

Watch the videos and study the examples.

Create a painted paper quilt the illustrates you flying over a magical city.

1. Create a city on foam and print on a piece of paper. Remote Students will draw a city and outline in black.

2. Paint glitter on a painted blue background. Remote Students will watercolor a blue purple sky and add tin foiled stars and a moon.

3. Draw yourself flying in the sky, color, cut out and glue down on your blue background. Also cut out the skyline of you city and glue at the bottom of your blue background.

4. Glue your blue background paper to a large piece of paper.

5. Collage a quilt design by using scrap paper that has color and patterns. LOOK at the example

6. Using a black marker add additional patterns to your paper quilt.

Materials

• Examples

• Paper/Colored Paper/Collage Paper

• Watercolor

• Styrofoam/Ink/Ink Brayer

• Brushes

• Markers

• Scissors

• Tin Foil ( remote students)

• Glue Stick

Video: Part One

Video: Part Two

Video: Part Three

Example