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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Masking Tape Murals



The new Art One class spent the day creating masking tape murals around the school. Take a look at the process we went through to get to this point.



First, we talked about hatching and cross hatching. We tried out some hatching techniques in out sketchbooks.



Next we talked and made a list of different topics that were important to us.



We formed teams based on topics we selected and talked about symbols and words that would relate to our topic.. Each team created sketches based on those ideas.



We even practiced with the tape on the table to get used to working with this medium. Then we went to work... Here are the results.













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10 comments:

  1. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin TreeFebruary 2, 2012 at 9:29 AM

    These are great! Thanks for sharing! You do great things with your students!

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  2. UnknownFebruary 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM

    My favorite part of this is that you KNOW the kids LOVED doing this... like doing graffiti that is allowed. I know I would have loved this when I was in high school.

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  3. Liz CumminsFebruary 4, 2012 at 10:21 PM

    Very clever stuff....well done! Thanks for sharing your artwork with us.

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  4. UnknownNovember 11, 2014 at 2:35 PM

    Do you recommend a specific type of tape? My custodial staff is concerned about residue... How long do you leave them up? Thanks!

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    1. ian sandsNovember 12, 2014 at 1:09 PM

      We used masking tape which didn't leave any marks on the lockers or brick.

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  5. UnknownNovember 11, 2014 at 2:36 PM

    Do you recommend a specific kind of tape? My custodians are concerned about residue. How long do you leave the murals up?

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    1. Kim SudkampNovember 13, 2014 at 1:09 PM

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    2. Kim SudkampNovember 13, 2014 at 1:15 PM

      We've always use masking tape here at Apex. It doesn't leave anything behind.

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  6. Art Moves Mobile Art StudioSeptember 2, 2015 at 3:51 PM

    I want to try this with elementary students? What's the best way to approach "enlarging" their sketches? A grid? Thank you for these awesome ideas. What a cool project!!!

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    1. ian sandsSeptember 3, 2015 at 7:14 AM

      Hi,

      We did use anything to enlarge the sketches like grids or projectors, though I'm sure those would work. The just used the sketches as references and did the murals freehand. The work on the wall tends to be better than the sketches because they care more about the wall ;)

      there is also a SchoolArts Magazine article about this project which goes into more detail here -->

      http://www.artofapex.com/2015/01/art-of-apex-x2-in-schoolarts-magazine.html

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