Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare. Isaiah 55:2b
For he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:9
and fills the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:9
Your optional assignment this week is to find a way to create a picture with something edible. We will be using our imaginations to create art with food! One of my favorite edible art projects is to add food coloring to white icing and then "paint" with the different colors on some cookies! You could also use icing as "glue" to make structures such as tiny houses with graham crackers and pretzel sticks!
Could you carve a carrot? Sure! Could you arrange Cheerios into a funny face? Absolutely! What about using food to stack up into an interesting sculpture? Any idea is a good idea, as long as you get permission from your parents, first. Also, you don't want your food to go to waste. Eat your art! Finally, make sure you clean up after yourself. You don't want to leave crumbs behind like my birds Casey and Cassie always do after they eat a treat at the table!
When you have a design you like, take a photo of yourself with your art and email it to me at annanichols@hcachristian.org. I will post your art here on the classroom blog and mail a prize to the student who makes the most interesting, complex, and creative design! Please send your pictures before the end of the day on Friday, April 24. I will look at all the entries over the weekend and announce the winner next Monday, April 27.
Last week's competition was a tie! Alden W. in 3rd grade tied for First Place with Anali C. in second grade. Click on the link to see all the entries: NATURE ART BASED ON THE WORK OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: STUDENT RESPONSES
PRESCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN, FIRST AND SECOND GRADES:
"Play With Your Food" Video for PK-2nd Grades, YouTube (by Mrs. Nichols)
Art With Mati and Dada: Arcimboldo, YouTube
How Are You Peeling? Foods With Moods, by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers, book read aloud on YouTube
Funny Food Art, facebook.com
GRADES 3-5:
"Play With Your Food" video for upper elementary, YouTube (by Mrs. Nichols)
Art With Mati and Dada: Arcimboldo, YouTube
Here is another Alabama art teacher who makes edible art: Expressive Portraits With Mrs. Kuhn, Abby Kuhn, facebook.com.
You can use just about anything to make art! Check out this artist from the book, Masters of Deception, by Al Seckel: Vik Muniz. He was born in Brazil but now lives and works in New York. Mr. Muniz loves to use unusual materials to make art, including string, potting soil, and even jelly! He doesn't consider himself an "illusionist," but a sort of a "twisted realist."
These images were made by carefully dripping chocolate syrup! Vik Muniz says he had to work relatively quickly because the chocolate kept melting in the heat of the studio lamps.
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| chocolate syrup drawings: Sigmund, Brando, and Cathedral by Vik Muniz |
These images were made by arranging spaghetti on a plate as well as sugar on black paper! I really admire the way that Mr. Muniz had to think backwards with his values in the sugar portrait, adding more sugar to areas he wanted to be lighter and less to areas that needed to be darker. Could you imagine trying to work with grains of sugar? This series of portraits is what made Mr. Muniz famous!
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| spaghetti and sugar drawings: Medusa Marinara and Valentina, the Fastest, by Vik Muniz |
Muniz says, "Art for me is not about saying things. It's about discovering ways to say them....There's no way to discover without being involved in the making of it, and through the process, you start to realize the mechanics of representation and you start to use them better. I think the end result is just the beginning of a narrative that moves backward in time. For me, an interesting work of art has to have this quality that when you look at it for the first time, you wonder how it was done."
Below are links to more interesting artists who work with food. Which artists are Formalists (working with formal design), like Andy Goldsworthy? Which artists are Realists? What about the artists that communicate an idea or a feeling as Expressionists?
Delicate Flowers and Interlocking Tessellations Carved into Fruits and Vegetables by Takehiro Kishimoto, by Kate Sierzputowski, thisiscolossal.com
The Pancake Artist, facebook.com
Artist Transforms Fresh Foods into Mind-Bending Arrangements of Tasty Patterns, by Sarah Barnes, mymodernmet.com
Arcimboldo: More Than Meets the Eye, Smithsonian Magazine
Arcimboldo’s Feast for the Eyes, Smithsonian Magazine
One final note: if you enjoy working with food and design, there are many jobs in the culinary arts! You could be a chef, food stylist, cake designer, and the list goes on and on. Here is one example:
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