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Re: Texture ideas for high school and middle school
From: Judy Decker (jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Hi Myriam,
For middle school and high school, we really got into textures in clay. I had lace textures, kitchen gadgets, stamps (a variety of different pattern sets), metal letter printing blocks, texture rolling pins.....and the list goes on.
For a 2-D project, I really like Ken Schwab's Cubism project....You can use newspapers, textured wall papers, maybe even lace doilies and fabric scraps. Maybe borrow some old musical instruments from the band?
A project I did with high school (and 8th grade) was collagraph prints. We used all sorts of textures....potato sacks, burlap, various fabrics (some fine woven - some more loosely woven -- corduroy...etc), sand papers, wallpaper, string, doilies.....on an on....Gesso the plate to seal. But you would have to have a printing press for best results in printing. Ken Schwab did some prints inspired by Japanese Kimonos that were just stunning.
Judy Decker
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I'm tired of my usual texture design: rubbings plus magazine pictures plus real textures in a collage. I give them a theme like landscape or emotions. But I would like to do something new this semester. My classes are smaller for once. Any high school "basic" suggestion out there?
Thanks as usual, Myriam
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