Designed for students aged 11–14 (UK Key Stage 3 / Years 7–9), but adaptable for other ages.
Learning objectives
Experiment with composition through collage
Increase involvement with colour and form through cutting and sticking coloured paper onto a coloured base
Adopt a mixed media drawing approach to working in galleries
Learning outcomes
A concertina book of three poses/costumes
A large scale collage
You will need
Coloured paper
Scissors
Glue
Pencils
Large sheet of white paper
Pencils
Coloured pencils
Eddie Howard"Planets"
Maj Lisa DorigPurple Studio
Exercise 1
Looking at either a favourite dress or a picture of a favourite dress create a cutout of a figure in the dress. Use your imagination, perhaps they are dancing and the dress is making different shapes.
Your collage cutout may be abstract or very realistic. This is a good time to experiment with shape.
Exercise 2
Now create another cut out using two different colours. Look at the dress from a different angle and try to see two tones within it, one for each colour. Think about how these shapes will interact with each other.
Exercise 3
Draw into your two collages with the details of the dress. You can use pencil or pen. Be sensitive to how the different papers may take the medium in different ways. Let the details contrast the looseness of the collage.
Exercise 4
For the sustained collage use a larger sheet of paper. These two previous collages were experiments for this peace. Use as many sheets of colour paper as you can to create a compelling shape.
Once you are happy with the collage element it's time to start the details. Use as many mediums as you can to create a textured piece that brings the dress to life.
