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

.

W

hat 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

.