Paper Mosaic Collages

As an introduction to ancient mosaic tile art, today we created contemporary abstract mosaic collages with interesting papers on black cardboard. Having a coloured frame really made the colours of the collage pop.   

Autumn Art Wreaths

These beautiful decorations were made by children at my Autumn Art Wreaths class at Katoomba Library. Using a mixture of textured painted paper and construction paper in Autumnal colours, students created the perfect ornamental artwork for this time of the year. We used some different Autumn leaf templates I premade, to trace and cut out (however I encouraged students to make their own leaf shapes too). The white decorative markings were achieved using one of my favourite materials - Posca pens!  

Eric Carle Insect Collage

First class up for the Spring school holidays was Eric Carle Insect Collage. The class learned some interesting insect facts before using paper painted with various colours and textures (already dry) to create collages with ladybirds, dragonflies, butterflies, bees and more. Loving the results!

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Above: Jessie Hicks created a butterfly artwork featuring a poem.  

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

These school holidays young students at Katoomba Library created adorable caterpillar paper chains and then learnt how to collage in the style of author and illustrator Eric Carle. The painted paper used in the collages had different patterns, colours and textures, and was dry before we used it for our artworks. Go to The Spruce to have a look how to make caterpillar paper chains.  

                        

Collage Owls

In Springwood Art Class today we created collage owl artworks by drawing an owl outline together as a class, filling the wings and body with paper feather shapes, glueing the owl on black construction paper and using metallic oil pastels to add details. The metallic pastels stand out beautifully on the black cardstock and give the appearance of silvery or gold moon and star light.  I just the love the results - great work everyone, the results are magical :)