Creativity Day 1

Bell Ringer:

Creativity Day 1:

The link above will take you to the slideshow that we went through today.

Materials Needed:

3-5 found objects from outside

4 pieces of cut newspaper

4 pieces of cut newsprint

4 pieces of cut construction paper

4 piece of cut white paper

B/W + 1 color of the following: oil pastel, crayon, chalk pastel, colored pencil

Andy Goldsworthy & Robert Smithson:

Look at the first 4 slides. Andy Goldsworthy is a Land/Earth Artist. He creates his artwork, by rearranging objects he finds in nature to construct different patterns or forms and then photographs them. He uses what the land provides and works outside. Robert Smithson is another land artist. He created the Spiral Jetty which is located in Utah in the Great Salt Lake. You can walk out on the Spiral Jetty.

We went outside for 10 minutes to collect 3-5, mostly flat, dry, and appropriate objects.

Using the 3-5 objects found outside, create texture rubbings. Place one of your objects under a piece of paper, use a utensil (crayon, oil pastel, chalk pastel, or pencil) to rub across the paper. It should create some sort of replication of the texture of your object. Refer to slide 7 for an example. You should have 4 rubbings of each object on a different paper using a different medium by the time you are done.

Time: about 15 minutes

Justin Bettman:

Refer to slides 8-11. Justin Bettman is an installation artist. He collects objects that he finds or that people no longer wants. He will combine those items and create a set somewhere out in public. He photographs people in these sets. Once he's photographed them, he'll leave them up so other random people can take pictures on the sets as well. He creates something new and interesting with lost and unwanted items.

Collage:

Refer to Slide 12. Create a collage from your texture rubbings, found objects, and any other materials you’d like. Create something new and interesting from the pieces.You can cut up the texture rubbings and rearrange the pieces. You can add pictures from the books and magazine that are available in class as well. Glue the pieces onto a ½ sheet of white paper.

Time: about 15-20 minutes

Throw away your items you collected from outside. Put your extra texture rubbings and paper in the scrap paper box/drawer. Turn in your collage.