Snap, Crackle and Art a Commercial Success in Abstract Design

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MATERIALS

* Cardboard food containers/cartons

* Rubber cement

* White glue

* Scissors

* Poster board

* Tracing paper

* Assorted patterned or textured papers

* Black markers

* Rulers

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will ...

* utilize contour lines to explore the relationship between negative and positive space.

* create a cohesive abstract design incorporating a variety of colors and textures for maximum visual impact.

Rare is the art teacher who hasn't started his or her clay by slurping a cup of coffee and mindlessly staring at the back of a gaudy cereal box. If one has children and faces an assortment of these iridescent boxes in the breakfast table, it makes for a surreal construction of dancing puffed wheal, smiling Olympic …