I've been wanting to do a James Rizzi inspired project with my 7-10 group for a while now. I love the energy of the bright colours and anthropomorphic buildings in his paintings. He made it look like all the buildings, birds, planes, cars, space ships and people were dancing together on the street. I also love the artwork he did for Tom Tom Club and recommend having this song on repeat while you do Rizzi-inspired artworks with your kids!
We started today's lesson with an excellent prezi I found, that I've linked above. The kids absolutely love learning about new artists and the different worlds they are/were apart of. When I showed them this presentation they were literally 'ooh-ing' and 'ahh-ing' at Rizzi's work. It's such a great way to get them excited about making art inspired by the artist of the day.
I had been collecting lots of cardboard in preparation for this project and painted all of it with a thick white base coat so that when they kids were ready to paint they could get straight down to it. Like with most lessons, I got the kids to first practice drawing their own buildings, faces and Rizzi features (birds, cars, suns, moons etc.)
Once they each had an A4 page of buildings and Rizzi features, they got to work dividing an A3 sized cardboard page into day and night. The day side being light blue and the night side being dark blue. Next, we started drawing buildings on other pieces of cardboard, first with pencil then over the top with thick, black marker. We then drew windows and faces on the buildings and glued them onto our backgrounds. Luckily it was a super hot day so our backgrounds dried in the sun real quick.
For the finishing touches the kids coloured their Rizzi features in with coloured marker and cut and pasted them onto their work. I love the results!
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