Tissue Paper Landscape

Concepts: Overlapping colours will produce a new colour, foreground/background, warm colours in the foreground makes the foreground appear closer, cool colours in the background makes the background appear further away.

Materials:

• 11” x17” paper
• coloured tissue paper. Make sure a selection of both warm colours (e.g. yellow, orange, red) and cool colours (e.g. blue, green, purple) are available
• glue
• clear acrylic medium

1. Have students very lightly sketch a landscape scene on the 11” x 17” paper. Keep it very simple with just the basic elements sketched in. The upper half (approximately) of the paper should depict the background. The lower portion of the paper should depict the foreground.
2. Students should then use pieces of cool coloured tissue paper to construct the background. Once that portion is done, use warm coloured tissue paper to construct the foreground.
   • NB: Students should be encouraged to tear, not cut, the tissue paper to shape. Also encourage the students to overlap the tissue paper to produce a whole new set of colours and shades.
3. Once the pictures are finished and the glue dry, have the students paint over their work with clear acrylic medium.

Once the acrylic medium is dry, the pictures will probably be curled at the edges. Get the students to straighten out the edges and place books over the corners. Leave sit overnight.

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