1st Grade Organic and Geometric Monster...

 the Elements of Art:  Shapes

Organic Shapes

African Abstract 

Nikki Chu

Geometric  Shapes

Lady with a Turban

Nikki Chu

Mixing Organic and Geometric  Shapes

Modern Turban Queen

Nikki Chu

Who is Nikki Chu?

Nikki Chu is a talented and inventive, powerful businesswoman in the world of product design and interiors. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.  Nikki has always had a passion to design since childhood. After realizing her love for the arts, Nikki attended a specialized design school called International Academy of Design.

Check out this amazing Video from the blog Art is Basic

Watch this YouTube video about geometric and organic shapes fro (Links to an external site.)

What are Geometric shapes?

Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements or regular sides and shapes. They do not usually appear in nature. 

Shapes created by Eric Carle

What are Organic Shapes?

Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.

They have irregular sides and shapes.  Humans, flowers and fish are organic shapes.

Collage Les

Henri Matisse

Learn more about Matisse and create your own Matisse inspired project here (Links to an external site.)

Our inspiration Piece 

Lesson 4. Organic Geo Monster

1. You will create a monster that has an organic shaped body. Remember to fill the page with your organic shape.

2. Inside your monster you will add geometric shapes

3. Inside your monster you will also add in lots of organic shapes.

4. Make sure you monster has arms and legs and eyes and a face.

5. The rest of the monsters details are artist's choice. That means you can decide what to add on next.

6. When you have finished designing your monster color it with crayons. 

7. You may color the back ground if you choose to.

8. Remember your monster has to have organic and geometric shapes in it.

9. Make sure to hit the Submit Assignment button to turn your work in. The due date is Oct 12, 2020

Lesson 4. Organic Geo Monster Steps

Step 1. Draw the organic body of your monster.

Step 2. Add in geometric and organic shapes.

Step 3. Give your monster lots of details including arms and eyes.

Step 4. Give your monster a face.

Step 5. Color your monster.

                                            

Scarp Monster Cut-Outs by 1st Grade...

So cute and fun....

Teaching a little eye-hand coordination!

Everyone gets a full sheet of their favorite color and the rest of the paper comes from the...

Scrap Bin! Yes I let them dump it out on the floor. 

We discuss proper "paper on the floor" etiquette before. 

I tell them it is very important not to crinkle their own scraps 

because other friends may be able to use it. Please simply

return it to the Scrap Bin. During clean up time I ask everyone to return to their

seats. Then I ask for "people with a certain color shirt" to hit the floor and clean up scraps.

Remember...we do not crinkle the scraps...they may become someone else's monster someday.

If the floor still needs attention I just ask the table managers to clean. When the floor is clean then everyone may start putting their work on the drying rack and their supplies away.

Make sure to give your monster details and personality!

Mini Monsters in Clay...

What do to with the extra clay? The kids always want to know if they can keep their extra clay. So instead of letting it turn to dust in their pockets I told them they could keep it if they created and army of mini-monsters with it. These mini-monsters are all under 4 inches and make out of scrap clay.

Blobbie Blob....

This is Blobbie Blob....

The first step in this project is to paint a black blob in the middle of the paper with no instructions other than "just paint a black blob in the middle of the paper with 

no white spots showing inside the blob". 

After the blob is finished have students put the blob painting on the drying rack. Let them know more info is to come next week. 

You will need a back up project because explaining and painting 

the blob only took 15 minutes.

I use watered down black tempera paint for the blob.

In the following art class show students a finished picture of Blobbie Blob! Explain they will be turning the blob into a monster's mouth.

Save time for all the oohs and awes you will get when you explain the blob they painted last week will become a monster this week.

I do not tell them what the blob will be used to make on the first day because I found they paint with a monster in mind instead of letting the black blog tell them what kind of monster it wants to be.

The first part of turning the blob into the mouth of a monster is ask students to decide which way their blobs look best. Have them hold the blob at different angles and sides.

Once they decide which way is up and which way is down, using a Sharpie have them draw a bottom lip line under their blob's mouth about 1/2 inch away for the blob.  Make use they only outline the bottom of the blog and not go all the way around the blob.

Next add a line for the top of the monsters head and his ears. Nothing needs to be done on the lower part of the paper. The lower part of the paper will be all monster and pained one color.

 The next step is to cut out the teeth for the monster's mouth. Using white paper, 

scissors and stick glue students will cut out any shape teeth they choose. 

I also have them round off the bottom of the teeth so they fit into the mouth's blob shape better.

Paint the monster all one color with watercolor paint and then use a darker shade of that same color

for lowlights and shadows around the bottom lip, eyes and ears.

Next cut out eyes from the white paper. The eyes can be any shape or size, they do not have to match. With a sharpie draw pupils in the eyes.

The last step is to use black watercolor paint around the teeth, eyes and ears for shadows and contrast. 

This is our inspiration piece. I saw it on ETSY.

The artist is Aaron Butcher.

Click HERE for his ETSY link.

I have bought several of his pieces. This is the only one I saw with a big mouth

but it did inspire this fun project.