Friday, September 20, 2013

Third Grade Ink Monsters


 Third graders looked at a stop-animation video of the drawings of contemporary artist Stefan G. Boucher (www.dailymonster.com), who makes one drawing per day from ink splotches.  
Continuing with our unit on process-generated art, we discussed incorporating reflection the way we often observe clouds, thinking about what those forms resemble or lead us to imagine in them.

Students used drinking straws to blow around drops of India ink on cardstock and create their own splotches, then used fine-tip black and broad colored markers to bring out monsters and many creative scenes.