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Paper Seahorse Sculpture: The Post-Impressionistic Reinterpretation

Nicole Ioma — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:13:15 +0000

The paper sculpture project I just started with my Intro to 2D kids just took on a whole new life. They are now going to make three versions of the same image, reinterpreted to imitate various artistic styles throughout history. I am going to give them mini art history lessons in the next few weeks, and have been working on my own reinterpretations. So here is what I started with…

Then I decided to go with post-impressionism, with an emphasis on pointilism. Since it is a paper sculpture, this means that I cut out about a million tiny circles. I started by covering the background (notice how the circles slowly get bigger and bigger?? haha.)

Then I started on the seahorse and some seaweed..

So. Many. Circles. This is only 4″x4″ though, so it’s not so bad. I still have LOTS of seaweed to do, and then bubbles and a few other details… I’ll show you once it’s finished, as well as student examples. I gave them lots of freedom in terms of subject matter, so it’s going to be interesting to see what they come up with.

Hope you’re having a good weekend! =)

Paper Seahorse Sculpture

Nicole Ioma — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:52:41 +0000

My Intro to 2D class is going to start a paper sculpture project later this week, & I thought I’d share the example I made here. I decided to make a seahorse and I put him in an underwater scene (seaweed, bubbles, starfish, and a school of fish all included!)

I painted paper with watercolors, then cut, folded & curled the paper to give it a more sculptural feel (as opposed to a flat paper collage.) It was a fun process and I can’t wait to see what my students come up with – I’ll share some of their projects here in the next few weeks! This took me about 2-3 hours to create, so there’s no telling how long the students will take to complete their project. One of the big challenges of teaching art is the HUGE difference in how long students take to complete projects.. some finish in one day, some take weeks. Oh. My.

Hope you have a great week! =)

Seahorses!

Nicole Ioma — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:46:19 +0000

I LOVE seahorses. I don’t know why, they’re so weird, I just do. And I recently found one that I made a couple years ago, soo I thought I would share =)

Do you like it?? It took FOREVER and then I didn’t even end up turning it in (it was for a class) but I still really like it. Here are a few more seahorse pictures I found…

(1 2 3)

And a gorgeous print from Etsy…

(paper moth)

I remember when I was little researching how to take care of them cause I wanted some of my own, but it’s really complicated (they need the current in the water to be regulated… or something. I don’t remember.) Maybe someday?!