Color in a Different Light

It sure seems like forever since I have posted anything.  

This month I plan on highlighting the art element of Color.  

"Color is a product of light.  Therefore as light changes, the color we observe will change.  What color is grass?  Green?  Grass may be almost gray at dawn, yellow-green at noon, and blue-black at midnight.  The colors of things are constantly changing with the light. " Design Basics, fourth edition, pg. 227.

You can see this in Monet 's  paintings The Houses of Parliment

I think you could do almost anything with this, but you can count on me giving a few ideas.  

As an Art Mom I have been asked to help make a gift for my students so that they can take something home to their parents for Christmas.  Ornaments are a favorite idea and you could do almost anything to create an ornament.  The fun thing about ornaments is the fact that they could really become an heirloom for the family.  I love to look at different Christmas trees to see what really makes them up.  It says so much about the people that live in the home.  Christmas is a great time to incorporate color as well.  We are going to have a lot of fun. Are you excited yet?

Below I have pasted a couple of ideas from Family Fun magazine.  These are some things that I am itching to try with my students. In reading about how color changes with light, I thought these would be appropriate. 

Stained Glass

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Crayonists can use their sharpener's shavings to create colorful window ornaments.

Materials

• Waxed paper
• Crayons
• Sharpener or paring knife

• Scissors
• Clothes iron

Instructions

1. Collect shavings from a crayon sharpener, or use a cheese grater for big crayons.
2. Arrange and sandwich the shavings between two sheets of waxed paper. You can also make a collage of found objects inside the waxed paper sandwich, placing string, lace or cutout letters among the shavings.
3. Iron the whole package on low (parents only), just until the shavings melt. Cut the stained glass into shapes and hang them in a sunny window.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Glassy I.D.

   An easy-to-make but dazzling mosaic

    
   
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   Glass gems — also called blobs, nuggets, and flattened marbles — can be found in the floral section of craft stores. Use these jewel-like whatchamacallits in this beginner mosaic project. We arranged the gems into a letter, but you can also form a number, a simple picture, or an abstract pattern.

   Materials

   • Picture frame
   • Hot glue
   • Multicolored glass gems

   • Tacky glue
   • 2 screw eyes
   • Monofilament

   Instructions

   1. Remove the backing from a picture frame and place the frame (with its glass) face down. Secure the glass to the frame with hot glue.
   2. Turn the frame right side up and arrange multicolored glass gems on the glass. When you have the gems where you want them, attach them to the glass, one by one, with a small dab of tacky glue.
   3.  After the glue dries, add a pair of screw eyes to the back of the frame as shown, and tie on a length of monofilament for hanging.

   Tips:

   This mosaic idea originally appeared in Glittering Shards, a blog written by Concetta Perot, a London-based artist and mom of two. Go toglitteringshards.com and click on "blog" for more.