2nd Week: Paper Mosaic

After a successful first week, we started off our next project on the concept of Mosaic Art. After briefly talking about what mosaic art meant in  Islamic architecture, I showed them some pictures. The girls were fascinaed by the beauty and intricate design work.

  

 

 For this class, Paper Mosaic was a perfect project to get an idea of how different colored paper tiles when put together create a similar effect.
I wanted to show kids a simple still life with a falling shadow so that they could create light and shade in their drawings with the use of different toned colored paper.
This is how we developed our project.

For the blue vase, children were given three shades of blue paper strips. They could then rip small pieces (tiles) and glue them on their drawings.



After the vase, the green stems were filled in with these 3 shades of green paper.

         

The table on which the vase was placed was built using the three shades of brown.

  

Black is filled in for shadow.

  Next comes the background with these gold tones.









The mouth of vase has black, gray & some white.

Here's how it looks after every nook & corner is filled in with 'paper

tiles'.