Gelli Print Collages by Third and Fourth Grade

Collages inspired by Rex Ray by Grades 3 and 4

A few examples of Rex Ray's Collages:

Look for:

Warm and Cool Colors

Organic Shapes

Positive and Negative Space

Texture

Chicken Collages

First and second graders read "The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County," by Janice Harrington.  We looked at the illustrations and noticed how illustrator Shelley Jackson used many different types of arts media, including paint and collage, to create the pictures in the book.



While we watched a video of the this story, artists sketched as many different chickens as they could.  Then we collected different textures to use to make painted paper for our collage chickens.

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Inspired by "The Great Wave" by Hokusai

Kindergarten artists used different texture painting tools to paint waves inspired by Japanese woodcut artist Hokusai's print "The Great Wave." Here are close ups of their wave paintings.

Inspired by Andy Warhol's Flowers

Kindergarten artists learned about pop artist Andy Warhol.  We talked about how he made his prints of everyday items using bright, bold colors.  Here is one example Warhol's flower prints.  He made this print many times using many different colors.

Here is Andy Warhol with some of his flower prints. 

Look at these flower prints! They take up a whole wall in an art gallery! 

Kindergarten artists used different shades of green acrylic paint on glossy black boards.  After spreading the paint with brushes, they used forks to add the grass texture to the paint.  Then they added cut paper flowers.  

Chickens!

We read "The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County," by Janice Harrington. This book has fabulous collage illustrations by Shelley Jackson, made up of many different types of paper and materials and painting. It was a Red Clover book in 2007, and has been one of my favorite children's books ever since.

To create out chicken collages, we started by collecting texture rubbings from around the room and painting them with watercolor paints, to observe the resist technique. This gave us a variety of beautiful papers to use. We used these papers and other scraps from our scrap cart to create fun and funky chickens.

Kindergarten Clay texture circles