Session 1 60 minutes
Students choose from provided objects to trace around. They will overlap the tracings to create a puzzle-like drawing that will be coloured in with crayons, pencil crayons, or markers, or patterning with a combination depending on grade level.
Session 2 60 minutes
Students will choose from provided physical shapes tracing them to make cut outs from various coloured papers and arrange them in overlapping fashion to be glued onto a background. The arrangement can be embellished with markings or shadings.
Session 3 60 minutes
Students will cut and embellish paper shapes from their own imaginations. Paper tabs will be included or added to allow the forms to be attached and raised from the page in the style of Frank Stella’s work which they will be introduced to. They will also be shown examples of my own glass hangings that are layered in a similar fashion.
About the artist - Jay Marie LeBlanc
My art is largely influenced by, and reflective of, the natural surroundings of the southwestern Nova Scotia shoreline; specifically the Acadian region of Baie Ste. Marie. As an artist, female, somewhat Anglophone, slightly Francophone, repatriated Acadian, living in “mid-life” where the sea and the stars are so plainly visible, the exploration of themes including archetypal, cultural, and metaphysical is essential. Life affords many wonderful mediums for explorations. Colors and pieces seem to assemble themselves, surprising, as they become a finished form. The process and product provide clues to our existential nature. So I continue my serious play.
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