What does this remind you of? Maps? Islands? Microscopic things? I was teaching my students about art that has been inspired by microscopic things and also I had checked out Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel. So this has influences from both.
I am starting a huge mural with my students at school. I will keep you updated as we start to paint it. It's hard to see what's going on in these pictures, but we traced figures on to large white banner paper, cut them out and then traced those on to the wall. Next week the painting begins!
I was thinking of something school themed and since the wall is so long a parade of kids would be fun. The idea evolved
organically through casual conversations with the principal, other
teachers and students. We talked about how each kid could be holding
something to represent subject areas of school. It started with just a
few figures but in order to represent all of the subjects it kept
growing to 8 silhouettes. The silhouettes will be painted black with
the objects in color. We have music (blowing a horn, leading the
parade), reading/social studies (a book), science (magnifying glass and
flower), athletics (shooting a ball), computers ( holding a laptop),
foreign language/cultures (holding a flag), the arts (paintbrush/drama
mask) and math (ruler and protractor). There will be words written
along the figures that say key concepts from the subject areas. There is
also an eagle flying in front of the parade because our school is
called Eagle. I had seen figural murals before and then the silhouettes
of Bansky kind of gave me a more solid idea.
Art is Basic
Etsy
