Recently I read a book that was very inspiring. In fact, the last post was about this book. (See Inspiration and Ideas post). The book has activities for you to do after each short chapter. I haven't tried this, but think it might be a cool idea to try. The author mentioned using old calendar pages to create art. An artist, Josette Urso, uses old calendars to write notes, drawings, etc. in the day spaces or squares. I immediately thought: coloring in the day spaces or squares with markers, crayons, colored pencils, paint, collage, etc. A real mixed media festival on paper!! Art teachers could teach color mixing: tints and shades; primary, secondary and tertiary colors in the squares. Imagine the possibilities: Vocabulary words, patterns, letters of the alphabet, etc. The sky is the limit!
I checked out Josette's work online. Here is the link. What an inspiration she is. Dare to be different!
http://www.josetteurso.com/images.html
Try a mixed media--you'll be surprised! I will definitely be trying this calendar idea. Art is to not only experience creating it, but to have fun!
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