Lessons

Folk Art

Stenciling

ASSIGNMENT:

Understand positive and negative space as it relates to stenciling a group. Use a template to s tencil repeated pattern in center of paper pierced border. (The previous lesson was to create a border design using paper piercing.)

STEPS:

1. Find/create a simple shape that can be repeted to form a group. examples: bushel of apples, flock of geese, bouquet of flowers, herd of elepants, squadron of planes, etc.
2. Draw shape onto center of 4"x4" tagboard
3. Cut shape to make template/stencil. Negative shape left in paper should be used for the stencil. Negative space can be cut from center by cutting from edge of paper into the center shape. The cut line/seam can be taped together on the back.
4. Rub pastels around edge of negative space of stencil.
5. Use finger to feather/stencil pastels from stencil edge onto center of paper.
6 Repeat - overlap design

GRADING:

Stencil/template
Stenciled group
craftsmanship

NOTES:

Folk Art - Art made by people who have had little or no formal schooling in art. Folk artists usually make works of art with traditional techniques and content, in styles handed down through many generations, and often of a particular region. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, metalwork, costume, tools, and other everyday objects all may be folk art. Stenciling can also be considered a folk art by many.

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