Love Week

I've been pondering what to have the peeps create for the week of Valentines. So I decided to head to my favorite site in the whole wide world...Pinterist of course, and start to do a little search. Came across the Useyourcoloredpencils blog and loved the art project that resembles the work of Robert Indiana's Love Sculpture. I like when I can show the peeps that what they are doing is inspired from a well known artist. Much like the painting with scissors project we did a few weeks ago that was inspired by Henri Matisse.

My cat Mike checking out the project. He approves!!

I've found that with elder classes, they actually do quite well when we do a drawing step-by-step. I'll use a white board and walk through each line with them. I like outlining the words in a black crayon and or oil pastel. It creates a nice resist technique so when you paint in the spaces, the paint is easily kept in the right spots.

I recommend bringing in pictures of Mr. Indiana's Love sculpture to show the class. It's also a great conversation piece to see if it triggers any memories in my early Alzheimer's groups. 

I took an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper,  folded it so it makes a squire and cut off the excess. Then I folded the paper in half both horizontally and vertically so I had four boxes the same size. This makes it easier to create each letter in it's own box. You could first use a pencil to draw in your letters, and then go over it with a dark oil pastel and or crayon. Then get out the paints, course you could use any type of medium really. I just like the watercolors with the oil pastels due to the resist technique that is created.

Just an FYI...I created these two Love pics very quickly. I didn't even use card stock, which I would recommend, or even watercolor paper. I tried a few different approaches with colors.