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<\/a><\/p>\n^^ THIS is how almost all of my progress shots came out this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Yay?<\/p>\n
To get started, and show him a bit about the collage work, I first cut a bunch of “matisse inspired” shapes and let him do a collage with those.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n I realize that I am biased, but didn’t he do an amazing job?\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t cut the pieces with any kind of picture in mind at all.\u00c2\u00a0 And here we have “Mommy Watches Two Baby Birds”.\u00c2\u00a0 I really love how this one came out.<\/p>\n After that, I handed over paper and scissors and asked him to make his own shapes for another collage work.<\/p>\n This\u00c2\u00a0are the *only* process shot that isn’t all screwed up, and you can’t see very much.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh!\u00c2\u00a0 He cut a lot of long wavy strips, glued several together in bunches, and then attached the mini-collages to the paper.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n I loved this project.<\/span><\/p>\n I started by telling her we were going to study Matisse<\/span>, an artist, and that she was going to get to see his pictures on the computer.<\/p>\n I told her how he used to paint, but got sick and was confined to his bed. Since he couldn’t paint, he used his scissors<\/span> to cut out his pictures. I then showed her a color wheel<\/span> online and explained that colors opposite on the wheel are called contrasting or complimentary colors. Then I cut some negative shapes and I explained about Bear busied herself glueing the pieces where she wanted on her yellow paper. She enjoyed the process so much that she wanted to do another. This time, Bear became Matisse and cut some of her own shapes. Why this was a great<\/span> project: This weeks open ended art project theme is “Matisse”.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a new thing; Open Ended Art will feature a specific artist once a month.\u00c2\u00a0 We read “When Pig-Asso met Moo-Tisse” and “Drawing with Scissors” as well as checking out some Matisse art on the internet to get familiar with his work. ^^ THIS is how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,52,33,22,16,15,49,12],"tags":[405,144,218,243],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-art-literacy","category-arts-and-crafts","category-elementary","category-kindergarten","category-preschool","category-start","category-toddler","tag-art-literacy","tag-artists","tag-collage","tag-open-ended-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
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\nI told her that Matisse liked bright, contrasting colors<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nWe looked at the various pairs of colors she could choose
\nand she chose violet and yellow<\/span>.
\n<\/a>We moved to her art table and I started cutting
\n<\/span>organic shapes <\/span><\/a>
\nfor her, explaining that Matisse used lots of organic shapes in his collages and that organic meant that the shapes had lots of curves and few, if any, straight lines.<\/p>\n
\nnegative and positive shapes<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nShe made one piece overlap<\/span>, so we talked about what that word meant too.<\/p>\n
\nWe went back to the color wheel and this time she chose blue and orange as her complimentary colors.<\/p>\n
\nAs she cut mostly rectangular pieces, I cut some organic shapes for her and I mentioned that now she would have contrast of shapes too – rectangular ones and organic ones.<\/p>\n
\nIt was a fantastic vocabulary lesson<\/span>.
\nBear was able to tell me that a circle wasn’t organic and neither was a square.
\nShe could point out the negative shapes and tell me they were the empty ones. Best of all, she was all excited<\/span> to tell everyone she did a Matisse activity (she calls everything<\/span> an “activity” these days!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![<\/a><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\nI loved this project.<\/span><\/p>\nI started by telling her we were going to study Matisse<\/span>, an artist, and that she was going to get to see his pictures on the computer.<\/p>\nI told her how he used to paint, but got sick and was confined to his bed. Since he couldn’t paint, he used his scissors<\/span> to cut out his pictures.\nI told her that Matisse liked bright, contrasting colors<\/span>.<\/p>\nI then showed her a color wheel<\/span> online and explained that colors opposite on the wheel are called contrasting or complimentary colors.\nWe looked at the various pairs of colors she could choose\nand she chose violet and yellow<\/span>.\n<\/a>We moved to her art table and I started cutting\n<\/span>organic shapes <\/span><\/a>\nfor her, explaining that Matisse used lots of organic shapes in his collages and that organic meant that the shapes had lots of curves and few, if any, straight lines.<\/p>\nThen I cut some negative shapes and I explained about \nnegative and positive shapes<\/span>.<\/p>\nBear busied herself glueing the pieces where she wanted on her yellow paper.\nShe made one piece overlap<\/span>, so we talked about what that word meant too.<\/p>\nShe enjoyed the process so much that she wanted to do another.\nWe went back to the color wheel and this time she chose blue and orange as her complimentary colors.<\/p>\nThis time, Bear became Matisse and cut some of her own shapes.\nAs she cut mostly rectangular pieces, I cut some organic shapes for her and I mentioned that now she would have contrast of shapes too – rectangular ones and organic ones.<\/p>\nWhy this was a great<\/span> project:\nIt was a fantastic vocabulary lesson<\/span>.\nBear was able to tell me that a circle wasn’t organic and neither was a square.\nShe could point out the negative shapes and tell me they were the empty ones. Best of all, she was all excited<\/span> to tell everyone she did a Matisse activity (she calls everything<\/span> an “activity” these days!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weeks open ended art project theme is “Matisse”.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a new thing; Open Ended Art will feature a specific artist once a month.\u00c2\u00a0 We read “When Pig-Asso met Moo-Tisse” and “Drawing with Scissors” as well as checking out some Matisse art on the internet to get familiar with his work. ^^ THIS is how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,52,33,22,16,15,49,12],"tags":[405,144,218,243],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-art-literacy","category-arts-and-crafts","category-elementary","category-kindergarten","category-preschool","category-start","category-toddler","tag-art-literacy","tag-artists","tag-collage","tag-open-ended-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0103.JPG\"){kind=link}
![<\/a>We moved to her art table and I started cutting\n<\/span>organic shapes <\/span><\/a>\nfor her, explaining that Matisse used lots of organic shapes in his collages and that organic meant that the shapes had lots of curves and few, if any, straight lines.<\/p>\nThen I cut some negative shapes and I explained about \nnegative and positive shapes<\/span>.<\/p>\nBear busied herself glueing the pieces where she wanted on her yellow paper.\nShe made one piece overlap<\/span>, so we talked about what that word meant too.<\/p>\nShe enjoyed the process so much that she wanted to do another.\nWe went back to the color wheel and this time she chose blue and orange as her complimentary colors.<\/p>\nThis time, Bear became Matisse and cut some of her own shapes.\nAs she cut mostly rectangular pieces, I cut some organic shapes for her and I mentioned that now she would have contrast of shapes too – rectangular ones and organic ones.<\/p>\nWhy this was a great<\/span> project:\nIt was a fantastic vocabulary lesson<\/span>.\nBear was able to tell me that a circle wasn’t organic and neither was a square.\nShe could point out the negative shapes and tell me they were the empty ones. Best of all, she was all excited<\/span> to tell everyone she did a Matisse activity (she calls everything<\/span> an “activity” these days!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weeks open ended art project theme is “Matisse”.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a new thing; Open Ended Art will feature a specific artist once a month.\u00c2\u00a0 We read “When Pig-Asso met Moo-Tisse” and “Drawing with Scissors” as well as checking out some Matisse art on the internet to get familiar with his work. ^^ THIS is how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,52,33,22,16,15,49,12],"tags":[405,144,218,243],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-art-literacy","category-arts-and-crafts","category-elementary","category-kindergarten","category-preschool","category-start","category-toddler","tag-art-literacy","tag-artists","tag-collage","tag-open-ended-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_6690VNY9Tt4\/SvDm5GrFsNI\/AAAAAAAAE7o\/lZKNyZrEq1U\/s1600-h\/27+-+Nov+2-3.jpg\"){kind=link}