On my trip to Paris last month I saw this fine example of stenciled street art.
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I think that the artist used three separate stencils to create the artwork.
Look carefully at the spray can – it even has a mist of red on it.
The artist even signed it. I think it was a self portrait.
Here is one other stencil I liked:
Want to see more Paris street art? You might like this post and this post.
Everyone loves clay! I went to the San Diego County Fair in June, and saw three fabulous clay projects in the youth art show.
1. The Golden Horses (Fifth grade and up)
Fifth graders made these horses. I love how the horse is balancing on tail and two legs.
These are made with some sort of clay on a wire armature. I am not sure if it is air dry, polymer or regular ceramic clay. I think polymer clay on a floral wire and foil armature, oven baked and then sprayed gold would work. You could use all those horse calendars as reference photos, plus any model or toy horses if you have them (when I was growing up, some of my horse-crazy friends collected them).
Fabulous mane, tail and hooves.
2. Name Art Tile (Fifth grade and up)
Name art tile
Do you have a multi-slab clay cutter? I do, and it looks like this was made using two slabs. Gorgeous! Love the combination of incised and overlapping shapes. This would be a project that parents and students would treasure for many years.
3. Multi-Color Coil Bowls
Top view of the bowl
Top view of another bowl
Love the coil feet!
I don’t think I can guess all the steps that went into making these bowls. I will add you will have to add and dry those coil feet when the bowl is inverted – otherwise the feet will collapse under the weight of the bowl.
Happy summer!
Want to see more fair projects? Check out this post.
I wrote about the fabulous street art of Paris in this post. Here is one of my favorites, a valentine found on the Rue Amelot:
There are even little hearts found on the stairs.
This type of street art doesn’t have to be illegal or even subversive. San Diego artist and educator Ray Kinne explains his street art installation, which he refers to as a ‘temporary tattoo’, in this video. He used a large-scale printer to create the posters, and a homemade paste of flour, sugar and water to adhere them to the wall. The artist claims they are easily removable.
I’m thinking high school project…..
I just came back from a week in Paris. It was wonderful to visit all the museums and see in person the artworks we teach our students (oh yeah, the food was awesome, too).
But Paris has a very different kind of art as well. Many streets are covered with a wide variety of graffiti, or ‘street art’. This initially came as a shock to me, an American tourist, as I had a pre-conceived notion of Paris as a tidy, historic city. Well, take a look at the latest Paris art, photographed in June, 2012.
This is an intricate, laser-cut sticker.
These were printed out and pasted on the wall. Is that a Mr. T sticker?
Multi-layered street art included newspaper collage for the clothes.
These were printed out and pasted to the wall.
These photos were taken on the Rue Amelot in the 11th arrondissement and in the St. Germain de Pres.
On the one hand it saddens me to see public property defaced. On the other hand, it is exciting to be surrounded by contemporary art everywhere you turn. I took a ton of photos and will share more in the next post.
Happy summer! I just visited the youth art display at the San Diego County Fair. I saw three fabulous murals you might want to try with your students. All the artworks were made using the downloadable materials available at Art Projects for Kids.
The Van Gogh-inspired murals look completely different from one another. Each used different media. The bottom mural was made using oil pastel.
The assembled Miro-inspired mural was entirely covered in little balls of colored tissue paper. I have never seen anything like it! It looked like a carpet.
Unfortunately, I did not see the names of the teachers who made these wonderful projects with their students. If you know who did – please leave a comment!
P.S. – I am a big fan of the APFK downloadable murals. I did the Seurat mural with two 4th grade classes, and wrote about it in this post.
