Our first project of the year was inspired by two artists. Lotte Reiniger and Brittney Lee. Lotte Reiniger was a silhouette animation artist, and was a true pioneer of her time. She created the first, full length, stop animation film, predating Walt Disney by a decade. She used scissors and black paper to create her characters. Below is a Google Doodle celebrating her 117th birthday. An artist at Google made this short animation in the same style as Reiniger. If you're interested in learning more you can look at her Wikipedia page, and several of her films are available to view on YouTube. Here is video from behind the scenes of the Google Doodle animation. The second artist, Brittney Lee, is a character designer at Disney, and on the side does amazing paper cut art. I love her style and attention to detail. Her subject matter is whimsical and illustrative. Here is a link to her Instagram account, and another to her blog (it hasn't been updated in a few months, but it still has several years worth of her art work to look at). In all three classes we have started working on our own paper art. The middle school is currently reading the book The Outsiders, as a tie in to their Language Arts they will be doing an image based on a classic car. The elementary school kids got to pick their own subject. We spent last week sketching and working on a final image that will be used as a template for our finial project. Here is a little sneak peek at all paper we'll be using: Thanks for stopping by! Again, if you have any questions about how your student is doing, or if you'd simply like to chat about art you love, don't hesitate to find me after school or send me an email.
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