ACE Art Club- Papier Mache Animal Masks

In Kindergarten through 2nd grade ACE Art Club, we learned about the art of mask-making from many cultures and time periods. There are four main reasons that societies make masks. They are used for story-telling (plays, movies, etc.), celebrations, wars, and religion.

Our masks are animal-themed and are ideal for story-telling. Aren't they fun!

A.C.E. - Plaster Mask Portraits

This project was our magna opus or “big work” in ACE this semester.  We used plaster gauze and plaster of paris to create these 3-D portraits. 

We discussed the beauty of the human face. There is not only one kind of beautiful.  Even though there are many different colors, and sizes of facial features, and hairstyles, they are all wonderfully made.  

Some of these artworks are self-portraits, while others are in honor of people we admire.

A.C.E. - Papier-mâché Lanterns

We used colored tissue paper, wheat paste, colored wire and a balloon for this festive project.

Our lanterns are not unlike those that you might see during a Chinese New Year celebration.

A.C.E. - 3-D Collage Boxes & Scrap Paper Collages

3-D Collage Boxes

Collage is overlapping paper.  For this project, we recycled tissue boxes and cut symmetrical shapes out of construction paper.  We overlapped the paper and voila!

Scrap Paper Collages 

Not a single piece of paper was wasted in these projects.  We used the shapes that we cut out for the 3-D collage boxes to create a second collage.  Can you tell which scraps came from which box?

A.C.E. - Cave Paintings

We heard a true story about how, not too long ago, four children in France discovered a cave full of paintings that were over 15,000 years old. 

Cave people did not have art supply stores, so they had to make their own paint.  We did too! We were scavengers and found different things outside to mix together to make our paint. Our paint is made of finely crushed dirt, grass, flowers, and leaves.

Miss Frerking turned the art room into an underground cave system, and we had to crawl under tables to paint on the inside of the dark cave walls.  These paintings have been extracted for you too see.

 

A.C.E. - Straw Blown Color Mixing

For this project, we learned about the primary and secondary colors in a fun way! 

 We dripped the primary color paint- red, blue, and yellow- on our papers and used straws to bloooooow the paint.  The paint ran together to make secondary colors- green, orange, and violet.

A.C.E. - Pebble Paintings

We used lines to create organic shapes that we painted with colored pebbles.

A.C.E. - Splatter Art

We learned about the artist Jackson Pollock and had fun being spontaneous with art.

We used the primary colors- red, blue, and yellow.  In some places they mix together to create secondary colors- orange, green, and violet.