Art Project on Contrast

I'm preparing for an upcoming art project on contrast for my junior high and high school art classes. I just finished my samples and I'm super excited about it! I can't wait to see what my students come up with!

The challenge is to create two images using contrast both visually and in theme. For my examples, I chose to use warm and cool colors as my visual contrast. My junior high example shows fire in warm colors and water in cool colors as a contrasting theme. The high school project shows good and evil in the form of Aslan (lion in warm colors) and the white witch (in cool colors) from Narnia as my thematic contrast. The image are attached to a folded paper in alternating strips so you will see both pictures when looking at it from the cente, but the side angles show the contrasting images.

Here's how we will build this project:

Supplies: Two sheets of white 12X18 heavy weight paper or construction paper

Scissors or paper cutter

Colored pencils

Glue stick

Ruler

Pencil

Step 1: Using a ruler, measure and cut one sheet of 12X18 paper in half creating two 12X9 pieces

Step 2: Draw and color a contrasting image on each 12X9 paper (portrait oriented)

Step 3: Measure the long sides of the remaining piece of 12X18 paper in 1 (or 1 1/2) inch increments then fold over/under to create a zig-zag or fan fold.

Step 4: Using a paper cutter or scissors, carefully cut a 12X1 inch strip from the right edge of one image and glue the strip to the right end section of the folded paper.

Step 5: Cut a 12X1 inch strip from the right edge of the contrasting image and glue the strip to the next section on folded paper.

Repeat steps 4 and 5, cutting one strip at a time and gluing alternately to the folded paper until you have completed attaching both images to the folded paper.

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