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I wanted to attempt something a little different with first grade students this year to introduce them to warm and cool colors. After surfing through some blog post and perusing Pinterest, I decided I wanted to try the bleeding tissue paper to create a background for a winter tree composition. This would be similar to a project I have previously done with first grade but with a new twist. I pre-cut squares and rectangles of the tissue paper in the warm colors and had students to cover their papers with any pattern they chose. Meanwhile, another piece of paper was painted only used cool colors with watercolor paint. Week two I supplied students with triangle tracers in a variety of sizes to use on the cool color paper. They needed three trees in three different sizes. When I peeled away the tissue paper from the warm color work, I was disappointed with the coverage or I should say lack of coverage. I couldn't imagine how the project was going to turn out to be anything near to what I had envisioned in my planning. Here are a few of the results.
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I decided to shift my focus to perspective and introduced students to creating space in their composition. They could overlap or use size to demonstrate the illusion of space. They began by drawing curved lines on the tissue painted paper to create three different lines in space. We talked about the outline of mountains and imagined what that might look like. Then students glued their trees, one on each of the different levels. They were reminded to place the smallest tree in the background and the largest in the foreground. They finished up by adding black crayon lines to create the trunks and the limbs of the trees. This is definitely not what I anticipated this project would turn out to look like but I am really drawn to the abstract qualities of the work. The goals and vision changed but I do feel like the project is a success.
I think they look great, and I like the white spots left after the tissue removal. If you want less white spots, I've found that doing a small area with water, placing the squares, then going back over dry spots in the tissue with a bit more water makes more even coverage.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I love them!
ReplyDeleteI think they came out quite beautiful! The white spots don't bother me and add a certain beauty. When i do a tissue bleed background i have the kids wet the paper first, then place their tissue down and paint over it with water to completely adhere it to the paper for the best coverage. You will still get kids that don't wet it enough so i always have them show me their piece before they put it on the drying rack so i can make sure it's wet enough. Some of the best ones have the white areas where the tissue didn't print! Great project! :)
ReplyDeleteI think they are beautiful. They actually capture the soft light of winter so well!
ReplyDeleteHow do you guys do this without a big, huge GIANT mess? I've steered clear of bleeding tissue for a while because everyone ends up all stained. Suggestions???
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't that bad. I had the kids use a "placemat" which is a large sun faded sheet of paper and work with that to protect the table. They didn't seem to really stain their fingers and mine were clean after one or two hand washings.
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