Parts of a Landscape
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Students will curate various found objects and papers to create faux landscape collages. They will document their art work using available technology.
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Students will identify available resources (found objects) to create art.
Students will brainstorm ways they can utilize their found objects to create landscape features.
Students will explore and invent ways of arranging their found objects and paper to create a landscape collage.
Students will use available technology to document their artwork.
Teaching Strategies
- Introduce the concept of found objects and give examples of how they can be used to create art.
- Facilitate brainstorming of different categories/types of found objects.
- Demonstrate how to create a torn paper background.
- Model how to arrange found objects to create landscape features without glue.
- Show how to photograph an artwork with available technology.
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Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
VA:Cr1.2.3aBrainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.
VA:Cr1.1.4aExplore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.
VA:Cr2.1.4aTime Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
10 minutes
Demonstration Time
10 minutes
Student Studio Time
1 hour
Supplies and Materials
- Scrap paper (colored paper, magazines, junk mail, etc.)
- Found objects
- Available technology (camera, phone, tablet, laptop, etc.)
National Standards
Create
Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
VA:Cr1.2.3aBrainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.
VA:Cr1.1.4aExplore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.
VA:Cr2.1.4a
Steps
Brainstorm & Locate Found Objects
Brainstorm different categories of found objects that could be utilized (hardware, pasta, toys, textiles, etc.).
Find and collect objects of various sizes and shapes to use for the collage.
Plan out ways that found objects can be arranged to create the parts of a landscape.
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