Submitted by Linda
Hoffelt, Mickelson Middle School, Brookings, South Dakota
Unit: Sculpture- Personal Identity - Keith Haring
Lesson: Paper (Papier) Maché Figures
Grade level: Upper elementary - through high school
Objectives:
- Understanding of how
an artist gets ideas
- Critique works of art
- Use a variety of sources to gain an understanding of
an artist and/or and arts form
- Combine the elements of two or more arts forms to
communicate ideas or information
- Use dance to inspire a work of art
- Integrate planning- develop and use personal symbols
- Develop skills: painting and sculpture
Materials:
18" x 24"
(46 x 61 cm) Newsprint
(or smaller), Scissors
, corrugated cardboard,
Styrofoam cups (or blocks of Styrofoam from packing materials),
newspapers, brown paper grocery bags (or other cheap paper
source for final layers - like newsprint rolls from local
paper), Wheat Paste (flour and water paste -- or thinned Elmer's Glue), Masking Tape, Acrylic Paint (or latex). wide brushes
,
White and black acrylic - smaller brushes. Optional:
Paint Markers, Puffy Paint
.
Procedure:
- Design simplified figure on 18 x
24" newsprint (12 x 18 could also be used).
- Cut out patterns shape - trace onto
corrugated cardboard. Cut two figures the same size.
- Tape some small Styrofoam cups between
the tow cut outs (or Styrofoam blocks from packing
materials).
- Cut 3" (to 4" - depending on
spacers used) cardboard strips. Tape strips between the two
layers.
- Apply a layer of wide masking tape to
the cardboard surfaces to prevent warping. May tape on a
layer of aluminum foil.
- Tear newspapers into strips - apply a
minimum of two very smooth layers.
- Add a finishing layer of brown paper bags, brown paper toweling end rolls - or other inexpensive paper source. The local newspaper often will give schools white newsprint end rolls.
- Paint with acrylics when dry.
- Select a contrasting color for lining
and symbols. Paint a thin border around shape and fill in
with personal symbols to show "self". Fill in
negative spaces with line and pattern.
- Allow to dry - critique work.
Motivation:
Alternate Lesson:
Combine the crime scene lesson with Haring. Students will draw crime scene figures in the style of Keith Haring.
Links
Keith Haring- Official Website
