You need:
-
brown paper bag
- tempera paint in fluoresecent colours and white
- brushes
- jar with water
- black marker
- coloured paper for background
- glue or stapler
Amate is a way of making paper, done for centuries by Mexican Indians. Amate paper
is made by cooking
the inner bark of various trees. At the beginning of the 20th century the
Nahua Indians of Mexico started making amate paintings as a form of folk art, especially in order to exchange and sell them to tourists.
Show some pictures of Mexican amate paintings. Discuss the features: birds, flowers, bright colours and black outlines. A frame around the drawing with a pattern in bright colours too.
Tear the edges off the paper: use thumb and fingers of both hands and tear slowly. Use a pencil to draw some birds and flowers, add a patterned frame and paint everything with fluorescent tempera. Let dry and outline everything with a black marker.
Paste or staple the artworks on coloured construction paper.
