Using oil pastels, students wrote their first names vertically along the left hand side of their paper. Then, for each letter of their name, they thought of a word that began with that letter and wrote it horizontally. The results are whimsical, colorful, visually dynamic short poems.
Through this project, students learned:
• about the various ways that oil pastels can be manipulated for expressive purposes - blending, color mixing, layering, etc.
• that you can take "mistakes" & "mess ups" and find creative ways to transform them into something great. For example, if a student realized they wrote a different letter than the one they intended, they employed the natural flexibility of the medium of oil pastels to change the letter. They saw that their "mistake" caused them to find a creative solution which greatly enhanced their artwork.
• that text can be incorporated into visual art.
• about relationships between colors.
• elements of design and typography.
Below are some examples from class 4-330.
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