The Art of Eric Carle

I am really excited to introduce our next model of study. He is a living, modern, artists. Not only is he an artist but also a designer, an author and illustrator too! I am talking about the gentleman who wrote, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle.

He has an exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum that I hope you will take the time to see this April. I think it is very special to study an artists work and then go get to see it in real life!  Go HERE if you don't know the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and listen to the artist read this story to you. Go HERE to see how the artist paints the paper he uses to make his art and then, go HERE to see how he then makes pictures with the paper he has created. Talk about SUPER cool!

Eric Carle reading his book

We will be using this process to make art of our own so please be thinking about what in nature you would like to create a picture of. What colors you will want to use?  Choose 4 colors for your picture. Remember our color theory class time? Will you use Primary, Secondary or Tertiary colors? Will you use a warm palette or a cool one? How will you texture your paper? This is a requirement for your picture, please think about this when doing your preliminary design work in class.