Australian Art Activity - Melbourne

Arts Centre Face

Suitable for:

Primary levels

Materials:

Oil Pastels, Cartridge Paper A3, Cover Paper A4, Cover Paper black 38 x 51cm, Metallic Paint, Chromacryl Paint, Form Cuts, PVA

How to Make an Arts Centre Face:

1. Look at the shape of the Arts Centre spire and its base. Draw an outline of these two shapes on separate sheets of paper.

2. Colour the two shapes with brightly coloured Oil Pastels overlapping and smudging the colours into one another.

3. Use Form Cuts dipped into black paint to mark in the lines to represent the wire structure of the spire and base. Set aside to dry.

4. Add lines of gold paint to represent the lights of the spire.

5. Cut the two shapes out and glue the spire shape to the base.

6. Use brightly coloured Oil Pastels to draw a happy face or shape of a creature. Exaggerate the nose, lips and ears to create a theatrical face like a clown or comical character or creature.

7. Cut the face or creature out and glue it on a contrasting sheet of Cover Paper. Cut the shape out leaving a border of Cover Paper around the shape.

8. Arrange and glue the spire, base and face/creature on to a sheet of black Cover Paper.