Pierced Paper Drawings & Signs of Summer Artwork
This weeks project has a funny title Pierced Paper Drawings. I came across this really amazing woman that created these and thought it could be a fun project for the kids. What we did was had the children draw a picture using pencil on white paper. White paper seemed to work best, but other colors could certainly be used, but the contrast between black and white shows up best. We encourage them to do simple line drawings without too much detail. Once they finished up with their drawings we gave them each a push pin with a pony bead hot glued on it, and a piece of cardboard. The bead is glued onto the push pin so it doesn't hit the table and dull the point. We also use a piece of cardboard so the pin has a "cushion" to go into. They just followed their drawing by poking holes along it to create their drawing. We then flipped it over and attached it to a black background. It is a really interesting way to create a drawing that is simply beautiful. The first two photos are by an artist Heather Smith Jones where the idea stemmed from.
Our second project for the day was our signs of summer. We talked about all of the signs or symbols that represent summer. We used a textured paper and had them create anywhere from 4 to 8 boxes on their paper. In each box using oil pastels drew a sign that represented summer for them. Living in California it tends to get a little bit fuzzy sometimes where summer starts and ends, but we came up with a large master list of signs/symbols. It was a fun project that turned out quite well. Oil pastels are a great medium that the kids tend to like using and have a wonderful richness to them.
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