Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in France. In the 1940's Matisse began creating cut paper collages, often rather large pictures, called gouaches decoupes. He called this new technique "painting with scissors". 

We looked at the following collages by Henri Matisse.....

         

Then my class got to paint with their scissors and created these beautiful collages.

 

Cleopatra Mosaics

My students had a fun time learning all about 
Cleopatra and Egyptian hieroglyphics. She was a 
brilliant queen who learned the language of her 
people. We had a great time executing this 
project.

Warm and Cool Color Snowmen

The students learned the difference between warm and cool colors. They were instructed to create snowmen and then divide the background into four sections. Then paint each section in warm colors; such as red, orange, yellow and pink or in cool colors; such as green, blue and purples. The results came out beautifully!