I would hope that we are all familiar with Eric Carle's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This teen event is in celebration of all his stories and illustrations that bring such whimsy and joy to anyone that reads them.
Saturday, June 20th at 1 p.m., we will meet in the Secret Garden and everyone will recreate a famous Eric Carle illustration of their choice! It looks complicated, but creating an illustration like Eric Carle is a lot of fun.
As an example, I chose to try out Mister Seahorse.
Notice how his illustrations look like a collage of colors? Eric Carle actually uses colorful tissue paper to create this effect.
To make my seahorse look like Mister Seahorse, I first paint a few sheets of tissue paper with bright, random colors, almost creating a rainbow on the paper. If I wanted, I could even paint little designs on the paper, like polka-dots or zig-zag lines.
After the tissue has completely dried, I sketch parts of the seahorse on random parts of the sheets. Then I cut out the parts and place them together like a puzzle, overlapping the pieces.
The next step to finalize my art is to brush watered-down glue over the top of the tissue paper. This not only locks the tissue in place, but also makes the collage look like one piece of paper, not a bunch of pieces.
Does that look cool, or what? Hope to see you all there!
3 comments:
I wish I could be there but I will be at camp. :(
tht book is the awesumest! well i wish i would be there but i am going on a cruise to alska!
emma
so cute :) i think i remember reading that book to a girl i used to babysit. the pictures are really creative
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