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.