Construction paper project: Mola middel school art

I do this project almost every year with Grade 7. If you want the lesson plan, the how to guide, go to my older post: http://www.mrbobart.com/2011/11/molas-grade-7-paper-cutting-project.html 

These are a few of this year's results: 
Theme: unusual birds

Trimming the edges.

Linocut Shoe Prints Middle School Art

This was a fun project. From life drawing to printmaking. Observation, line, and texture. Didn't realize how many of my students wear Chucks.

Construction Paper Layers high school art project

I was checking out a project that was made using thin sheets of painted wood stacked in layers presented in a box. This was about the time we had made our light box projects, so the concept of using a box to contain art was still on my mind. While I didn't have the thin sheets of colored wood, I figured that construction paper might be a good substitute. In many ways this is similar to my middle school mola project except that each layer on this project has a representation object opposed to cut-out abstract shapes that form an image.

Slab Vases High School Art Ceramics

Having a functional art project is always handy. Several months ago my students made vases with rectangle slabs of clay scored upon one another to create negative space. After glazing the projects, we took them to the darkest room on campus and placed a lit candle inside the vases and took a handful of photographs.  

Unglazed vases

Mola Project reprise 7th grade Art

It has been a year and some change since I last taught the paper mola project and seeing that I'm teaching 7th grade again it was time to bust out an oldie but goodie. For some reason several art teachers have pinned and re-pinned this project on pinterest.com. Thank you for liking the idea.

If you would like to see the original post from 2011 click here it describes the process and lists vocabulary for your students.

In this post I broke down the sheets so you can see the layers. Enjoy.