Poster board (1 sheet per student)
9 x 12ish piece of cardboard off a box or something
French curves (I printed some out and cut them out with an exacto and had kids trace that rather that buying some)
Cheap acrylic paint
Glue gun and glue
Scraps of card board or foam core
This project was super simple and the kids (8th grade) absolutely loved it. I introduced the lesson by showing them the works of frank Stella and how his art evolved over the years. I couldn't find a youtube video that wasn't really boring so I just showed them a slide show of his work. We started by tracing the French curves onto poster board. I told them to trace 6 large, 5 medium, and 4 smalls. The smaller ones Are really hard to cut out so kids that had a hard time with it did less smalls and more larges. Once the French curves were cut, the kiddos painted them a solid color, let them dry, then splatter painted each curve. Oh how they love to splatter paint. Once all curves were painted, they painted the cardboard backing. I told them to paint stripes or some other geometric pattern on the cardboard. Anything will work because you don't see much of the background. Next, they arranged the French curves on the backing and cut up little pieces of foam core to attach with hot glue to the back of each curve in a variety of heights to give the work some dimension. Some kids got crazy with it. The crazier the better.
Sorry for the bad picture quality! iPads don't take very good pictures!
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