Art at Home for Week of June 15

Our final art project for the year!  This weeks theme is texture rubbings, and all grades are working on the same lesson!  See below to learn all about your art lesson for this week..

Texture Rubbings 
For All Grades

Here are some textures, can you imagine what it might feel like to touch them?

Texture refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched. Texture is one of the seven elements of art.   Today you will create a piece of abstract art using texture rubbings.
Remember, Abstract art is art that doesn't resemble anything you'd see in real life. Yours will be made up of colors and textures.

Materials:

3 or more colors of crayons, with the label peeled off

Piece of thin paper, like photocopy paper

Steps:

Look around your house and your yard, find anything that has some sort of texture, looks for objects with holes, bumps, ridges, etc.  One idea is to use some leaves from outside, but I bet you can find many other objects for your texture rubbings.  *Maybe tree bark, the side of a chair, bubble wrap, a Lego, tiles on a floor or wall, there are so many textures in and around your house!

Hold your paper over the object, rub with the side of the crayon until you can see the texture on your paper.

Do this all over your paper with different textures and different colors until your paper is covered.   Try to use 8 or more textures.  Fill in your paper with textures until it's completely filled, this is your abstract work of art :)

Have fun!