Jackson Pollock Drip Painting

Image from ASI Lesson Book-4, (Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4), by Greta Heeb Your Destination: (objectives) Recreate Pollock’s drip painting by replicating the direct, raw techniques that he used. travel kit: (materials) Wood/canvas, paint, paintbrush, pallet knife. on the path step 1 On your canvas, drip your …

Identity Silhouette

Your Destination: (objectives) Based off of Kara Walker’s work with silhouettes, the students will create 5 silhouettes of aspects that they feel make up their identity. The silhouettes are going to be a basic outline of different symbols or drawings. travel kit: (materials)r Dark paper, light paper, scissors, pencil, glue. …

Create Little People Sculptures – Sculpting Art Lesson

Image by Destination8infinity, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Your destination: (objectives) Using recycled materials, we are going to create little people sculptures. This will give students a chance to practice creating sculpture in a creative, fun way. Travel kit: (materials) Wire, cork, ribbon/fabric ,tape, plastic bag, wire cutter, scissors. …

A Close Look at Van Gogh’s Starry Night

Our inspiration for class this week at Fishtown Recreation Center this week came from Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting. Starry Night is one of the most recognized pieces of art in history and we held a gallery-style observation and discussion about the painting, using a commercially available poster print …

Leaf Printing

After school students at Cione Recreation Center made with prints with fallen leaves. We first started by making rubbings. Placing a leaf under their paper and using the side of their crayon to lightly make an impression of the leaf. Students explored overlapping multiple leaf rubbings. They used a variety …