Geofiction: design an alphabet

You need:

1. drawing paper A4 size
2. colour pencils

Another task that belongs to geofiction (Design your own country - see other posts in the category geofiction), is the design of an alphabet. This can be an alphabet in which our characters are replaced by a letter that are one or two places further in the alphabet, but it can also be a drawn alphabet. In the artwork above every letter is replaced by a little drawing of something that starts with that letter. Of course this example is in Dutch: n = neus/nose, m = maan/moon. The students who designed this alphabet, evenmade seperate characters for our Dutch double vowels!

Geofiction: Design your own stamp

You need:

1. white drawing paper 15 by 10 cm
2. colour pencils
3. markers
4. pattern scissors

Geofiction is fictional geography: devising, designing and developing a geo, a fictional geographic entity. In most cases the geo is a country, but it can be any kind of geographic area: a city, a region, a federation of countries, a planet, a star system, it doesn't matter. With an imaginary country you can do many things, like:

- draw maps, make flags, money, stamps , pieces of art;
- design and develop languages, transport systems, music, culture, religions, political systems;
- write or tell stories using the imaginary geographic area as a background;

We do geofiction in the last group of elementary school as a a mean of education. One of the things that has to be made is a stamp for the imaginary country. After drawing and colouring it, the edges have to be cut with pattern scissors.

Made by students of 12 years old

Butterflies in the style of Peter Callesen

You need:

1. white copypaper (80 grams) A4 size
2. coloured paper for background
3. pencil
4. cutter
5. cutting mat
6. glue

Peter Callesen (born in 1967) is a Danish artists who cuts artworks out of simple white sheets of copypaper. He uses the two-dimensional paper with three-dimensional shapes. This 3D shapes pop up from the sheet of or fall out. He doesn't add anything, just uses the plain sheet. The three-dimensional figures who seem to appear, are made from the same background.

Look at pictures of Callesen's work on his website www.petercallesen.com and discuss them with the students. See especially the work 'Hunting', on which you see a butterfly and a spider popping up from the paper. Discuss how this butterfly is attached to the background. Are there other possibilities for the butterfly to come out of the paper? The body may be stuck, but also part of a wing. By using different ways, you get variety in your work.

Detail: butterfly whose body still stuck.

The children scetch a small number of butterflies on their white sheet. Let them not draw intricate wings, because the animals must be cut out and that is hard enough!
put double lines on the places that are not to be cut. Choose different options for the butterflies: let the body be stuck, or the the lower wings.

Cut the paper butterflies carefully. Take care that your specified 'fixed' parts are not to be cut. Paste the work on a coloured background, but do not glue behind the butterfly. Fold the butterfly wings something up, to be sure they are free of the paper and the background is clearly visible.

Made by a student of 11 years old

THE PReGNaNT PReTtY MaKeUp TiPS bY: ALDO AKIRA MaKe Up ARTiST..

Hi MaKe Up LOVeR..

..yOu dON't HaVE tO aBaNdON yoUR peRSoNaL STyLE wHiLE yOu'Re PReGNaNt!
i'LL sHoW a gLOWiNG MoM-tO-bE hoW
witH NATURAL MAKEUP aND HAIRDO bY: ALDO AKIRA..


SARaH iS eXPeCtiNg heR FiRST CHiLD,
aND eVeN tHouGH sHe'S NiNE MouNThs PReGNaNt,
sHe'S iN suCH GOoD sHaPE tHaT sHE caN sTiLL FiT
iNTO MoSt oF heR CLOtHeS aND a UK SiZe 12boTtoM!
sHe StiLL bE coMFoRTabLE aND STyLiSH eNougH fOR a PRoFeSsioNaL
yOuNg-MoM-tO-bE LiKe HeRSeLF..
aND SARaH deCideS tO TaKe a PiCTuRe fOR FuN..
aND oF COuRSe MaKeUp & HaiRdO bY: ALdO AKiRA..

..i giVe heR veRy waRM aNd NaTURaL LOoKs oN SARAH
NiNe MouNths PReGNaNt BeaUTiFuL FaCe..

(NaTuRaL COLoUR LOoSE PoWDeR fRoM BOBBI BROWN..)

..fOR SaRaH EyES, MaKe iT SiMPLe aND FResH BeaUtY eyEsHadoW fRoM BOBBI BROWN..


..aND i giVE heR tHiS aWeSoMe LiP MoiSt,
fROM SOaP & GLORY SEXY MOTHER PUCKER..


..sHe LoOKs LiKe HOT MAMA!


(^.^)v

..aND tHiS iS SARaH wHeN MaKeUp aND HaiRdO witH Me,
aND taKe a PiCTuRe fOR heR PRE-WeDDiNG..


..aND tHiS iS PiCTuRe wHeN SARaH MaRRieD MaKeUp aNd HaiRdO bY ALDO AKIRA..


So..,
~waNna TRy My MaGiC HaNdS?
LiKe "HoT MaMA" SARAH..


SeE yOu iN My NeXt MaKe Up TiPs, MaKe Up LOVeR!


..FoLLOW Me @aldoakira oN TwiTteR, MAKEUP LOVER..

Op art in complementary colours

You need:

1. drawing paper 14 by 14 cm
2. ruler
3. pencil
4. piece of cardboard, 6 by cm
5. markers
6. black paper for background
7. scissors
8. glue

Check during the introduction of this lesson what students already know about primary and secundary colours. What are the primary colours? How do you make secondary colours out of them?

Show a picture of the colour circle and tell about complementary colours: the colours who are opposite to eachother in the colour circle. Blue and orange, yellow and purple, greed and red.

Divide the drawing sheet in four squares of 7 by 7 cm. Cut a shape from a piece of cardboard and trace it four times in the squares. Draw vertical lines with a pencil with 1 cm between them. Colour the shapes and backgrounds like a checkerboard with complementary colours and one in black and white.
Cut the squares and paste them on a black sheet.

Colourful chicken

Made by Danjel, 12 years old

You need:

1. drawing paper A3 size
2. oil pastel
3. tempera
4. brushes
5. coloured paper for background

Children draw a horizon line on their paper. Then they draw a big chicken, partly below the horizon. They have to colour it with oil pastels in bright colours. Paint the background with diluted tempera paint.

Comic strip hero

You need:

1. picture of a comic hero on A6 size
2. drawing paper A3 size
3. ruler
4. pencil
5. markers or colour pencils
6. scissors and glue
7. coloured paper for background

Ask kids to bring a picture of their favorite comic strip hero. Bring it back or enlarge it to A6 size on a copier. Create a 1 cm on the picture using a ruler and a pencil. Number each square starting across the top from the left corner.

Draw a 2 cm grid on the large drawing sheet. Number in the same fashion all the squares. Begin drawing the line created by the picture in each square. Sometimes it helps to go over the outline of the head with a pencil so you can see the line clearly. As you do this the head will begin to show up as an exact copy of the picture. Finish the drawing this way. Use colour pencils or markers to colour it. Outline everything with a black marker.

All works are made by children of 10-11 years old