What is a Mandala?
A mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Asian cultures. It can be understood in two different ways: externally as a visual representation of the universe or internally as a guide for several practices that take place in many Asian traditions, including meditation. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the belief is that by entering the mandala and proceeding towards its center, you are guided through the cosmic process of transforming the universe from one of suffering into one of joy and happiness.
A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction.
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Today we will begin creating our materials that will be used in the Texture Altered Book page. We will create intense, wet watercolors (in analogous color schemes) and then add salt, rubbing alcohol, and plastic wrap to get textural effects. We will then create texture rubbings by going on a scavenger hunt around the classroom to find lots of cool textures. Next, we created a complementary color wash on our altered book 2- page spread that will become the background. Tomorrow we will put it all together!
DAY 1 Altered book video directions: https://streamingcobb.cobbk12.org/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=28a185c2-72e7-4db6-8c17-ad0a00ee382f
Students are creating a 2-page spread featuring a text poem. In the background students choose either geometric or organic shapes to add with prismacolor pencils. They also are including a title and definition for the page.
Student Samples:Students will begin designing their superhero! Think about what you want your superhero to be, what powers you want them to have. Will they be realistic? Are they humanoid, animal, robot, or alien!? If you need to, look through the folders at the table for ideas. You can even choose three or more of the samples to morph together your superhero. (ex: head of one character, body/clothes of a second, and hair or weapon of a third character!)
Be sure to make your superhero large to fill the paper. (bigger than your hand!!). If its too small, it will get lost on your background. Check out these ideas below! Today we began working on our backgrounds. We first discussed the Rule of Thirds to have our superhero/focal point located on one of the 4 intersecting points in order to add more interest to our composition. Once we picked the focal point, we ripped up newspaper and composed it onto 15x12 tagboard to give us movement towards our chosen point. We used watered down glue to glue the newspaper in place and then put 4-5 "challenge items" into the background. We then mixed up a transparent background with a watercolor wash to completely cover all the layers thus far.
Today we are starting on the background of our Superhero Talisman projects. These will be mixed media works of art incorporating several layers. The focal point will include a superhero "breaking through" the struggles and challenges of the artist.
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