• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

aloeilove

  • Home
  • About
  • My Art
  • My Journals
    • art journals
    • series
    • monthly challenges
  • a.l.o.e. in the Classroom
    • my classroom/studio
    • currently teaching
    • museums & cultural centers
  • Life
    • my home
    • nc living
    • travel
  • Contact

currently teaching: cabaret & art nouveau

September 5, 2018 Leave a Comment

Durham Arts Council: Summer Cultural Camps

I spent a few weeks teaching art at DAC this summer. They introduce new cultural themes every year, and I was so excited to get to do Cabaret!

I had four days and three different age groups to work with.

I decided on Le Chat Noir and Gustav Klimt as inspiration for our projects.

Le Chat Noir

We used bubble wrap, tempera paint, construction paper, oil pastels, and colored pencils to create these Le Chat Noir posters.

I recycled mailing envelopes with bubble wrap, and precut the circles for printing.

The kiddos practiced sketching a cat before drawing it on the black construction paper. They used white colored pencils to draw in the cat’s features. After they glued down their pieces, they added lettering using oil pastels and colored pencils.

Gustav Klimt

Next up, Gustav Klimt inspired abstracts. I got the idea for this one from a wonderful site called deepspacesparkle.com. I altered the lesson a bit and used different backgrounds and collage details.

Each group used a different background paper (cardboard, black construction paper, brown paper bag), but followed the same steps for the details using metallic paint, papers and sharpie markers.

Step 1: paint shapes using gold and silver metallic craft paint

Step 2: add metallic collage pieces

Step 3: add details with black, silver, bronze, and gold sharpie markers

They had so much fun creating these and I really love, love, love, how they turned out!

 

a.l.o.e. in the Classroom, All Posts, currently teaching

Theresa

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

About

About

Hello there!
I’m Theresa, a teacher & learner with an artist’s soul. Welcome to “a little of everything I love”: teaching & learning (mostly learning), art, travel, and home.
Click on my face to read more...

Subscribe

Loading

Archive

  • May 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • March 2019
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018

Copyright © 2021 · aloeilove · Built by With Great Heart