Pack No.4
THE ART BOOK
Introduction Hello, my name is Emma and I am a Graphic Designer and Artist. After having had several parents reach out for art project ideas for their children in the coming months I have decided to make a weekly pack with a few ideas for three different age categories. I have loosely grouped them into ‘Little ones’, ‘Bigger Ones’ and ‘Young Adults’. I will make these available once a week on the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ TheArtBookUK/ I will do my best to minimise mess and to only suggest ideas using materials that you may have at home. I will try my best to post in advance what materials might be needed for the next week in case that is helpful! If anyone would like to share their creations I will create a little board where masterpieces can be exhibited for the community to enjoy and celebrate! Please share this pack to anyone that might find it useful. I hope it can help anyone after a creative project in the coming weeks! If you need any help feel free to ask on the page!
Little Ones! Project One: Create your own sensory Den! Art isn’t always about what you can see. Sometimes its all about our other senses! Make yourself a sensory den like these cool kids above or if you don’t have the right materials or space make a little tent with a blanket and a chair. Find a torch and some objects to shine lights through or around, tell stories, have snacks, curl up with a book or a game, play some music! Whatever is perfect for you!
Project Two: Spring Time Flowers! It’s spring! The flowers are popping up after their long sleep over the winter so I want you to paint or draw your own beautiful flowers in whatever way you fancy! If you have paint then maybe try print making using household objects like spoons or forks or finger painting, or just grab some pencils or a highlighter or two and get drawing!
Project Three: Salt Dough Hand Prints! Now that we are all spending a bit more time with those in our household it might be the perfect moment to create some memories to treasure for a lifetime. Have you ever made your own salt dough hand or foot cast? If not try this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYUxPvmm3Uc
Bigger Ones! Project One: ANIMATION! Make your own little animation using toys that you have. A very talented young gentleman made this fantastic video as part of his next Cub badge (which will be on our Facebook page so make sure you have a look at his masterpiece!). Take a photo of your toys, slightly move them and take another then move them a little more and so on. Eventually put all of your photos together to make your short animation. Make sure that you keep your camera still in between the shots! This type of animation is called stop motion animation and you can watch a tutorial on this here.
Project Two: Shoe Box Art Gallery! We might not be able to get outside to visit a gallery in person but we can make one! Imagine you have a tiny little friend who you want to take on a day out. Try to recreate our favourite artworks and make your own shoe box gallery!
Project Three: Georges Seurat! Georges Seurat made his artworks out of hundreds and thousands of tiny tiny dots! This week try to recreate the view from one of your windows or a favourite photo using just dots, you will have to look really really closely!
Adults and Teens! Project One: Frottage or Surface Rubbing! Frottage or surface rubbing is an artistic technique where you make marks by placing your paper over a textures=d object and using the flat side of a pencil, pastel, chalk or crayon to make an impression. This week I am challenging you to recreate your favourite building (or design a new one?). How about York Minster? Big Ben? Sidney Opera House? Project Two: Dadaism! The Dadaist movement emerged as one of the Modernist movements in Europe in the early 20th century in response to the turbulent events in the world. Some of the most iconic pieces of Dada artwork were produced from found materials. For many in Germany or other occupied countries art materials were confiscated and so many of the materials that the Dadaists used were Nazi propaganda materials that the cut up and remodelled into satirical artworks commentating on the madness in Nazi ideology. Far from comparing our current circumstances to these truly terrible and terrifying times, as we are stuck inside and unable to go out and find the perfect art materials it might be a moment for us to think ‘Dada’, find whatever materials you have at hand and create your own piece of art. Maybe its a message of thanks or hope or maybe its just something that will make you smile. Project Three: Treasures from the wreck! Damien Hurst curated an exhibition of artworks in 2017 called ‘treasures from the wreck’. Each of these pieces was presented as if they had lived under the sea for a very long time before being rediscovered, eroded by the sea and reclaimed by fantastic corals. Many of these objects hark to past cultures but many are also strikingly modern, like a Mickey Mouse! The exhibition forced us to take a step back and to see our world through the lens of an intrepid explorer who came across remnants of our world. This week we want you to design objects that you think might be discovered in the far future that might tell a story about how we live today. Then imagine how time might have worn and woven around these objects just like Hurst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwfjymPx8kM