After creating a drawing of a mythical creature using at least three characteristics of living creatures, let's create a fabric story of this creature. Using felt squares and fabric scraps collage a picture of your creature to tell a fabric story.
Inspiration We look to two examples of how stories can be told through fabric. The Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505), Metropolitan Museum of art. In tapestry threads are woven to make the structure and picture. Faith Ringgold 1930- Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Her artistic practice is extremely varied – from painting to quilts, from sculptures and performance art to children's books. As an educator, she taught in both the New York City Public school system and at college level. In 1973, she quit teaching public school to devote herself to creating art full-time. In her work of the story quilts we see that fabric is sewn together to make the structure.
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![]() Inspiration Roberto Benavidez (b. 1973) “The greatest influence on my recent work is the piñata,” explains multidisciplinary artist Roberto Benavidez. His papier-mâché and crêpe paper versions of beasts and demons plucked from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1450) have become something of a viral sensation. Piñatas are usually considered a throw-away amusement, designed to be hung from a tree and smashed up by kids at a birthday party, but Benavidez treats the form seriously. His Bosch-inspired sculptures—faithful 3-D reproductions of the painting’s strange characters—are elegant, funny, and a little frightening. The larger piñatas in the series are the size of small children, with delicate layers of crêpe paper covering their bodies like fur or feathers. Benavidez, who identifies as mixed-race, feels a cultural connection to piñatas as a sculptural form that has been a part of Mexican Catholic traditions since the 16th century. “By drawing from Western art imagery and incorporating Italian crêpe paper in my work, I’m touching upon the craft’s history, as well as highlighting its parallel to my own identity,” he explains. This week, students revisited the American artist Wayne Thiebaud. We looked to Mr. Thiebaud's gumball painting. This project is aimed at students of all levels. Tracing templates to create shapes; plates and buttons or pennies, using a ruler, or getting creative by filling the gumball machine with sometime wackier than gumballs! Have some fun with this project, get colorful, and creative!
![]() Inspiration Wayne Thiebaud (b.1920) is an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work. The Kings Cake, Galette des Rois is a tradition not only in France but other cultures such as Spanish and German speaking countries, Greece, England, and in the United States in specifically in New Orleans and other southern states. In the baked cake a baby figure is representing Jesus is to be found by the lucky guest who becomes "king" for the day. This tradition is representative of the Magi, Wisemen, or King's search for Jesus. ![]() Wayne Thiebauld is an American born artist that looks to pop culture and commercial design. He uses the subject matter of cakes, pies, donuts, lipstick shoes. In his later work he creates landscapes. His style is defined by the this almost frosting like layers of paint. In this lesson we will create our own magnificent King Cakes. What will yours include? How many patterns and colors? Materials
![]() Inspiration Wayne Thiebauld is an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work. A short video of him and his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTZJfenUpsA |
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