This week, my art sessions include using the heart shape to create another shape! A great visual exercise for children and adults. The work above was made by an adult in his 40s with mental retardation. He made a heart butterfly and heart flowers which he duplicated as greeting cards for his loved ones last Valentines day!
And below, for a student with autism, a heart butterfly is easy and fun to make:
And this heart butterfly was added to his work (featured below) that is a visual exercise as well.
The Peacock Project
With a picture of a peacock as reference and by instruction, the student folded recycled glossy paper to recreate the plumage, a tissue roll to create the body and cut recycled papers to create feathers around the body!
In the same session, the student created another peacock using circular cut recycled paper to follow a circle shape:
And pasted another cut paper to create designs:
And the completed work in 30 minutes!
I was stupefied and knew I need to design more challenging modules next time ;-)
Note: round cut papers as rocks are used to exercise visual sequence (a repeated exercise.)
