Flashlight Art Project
Today I enjoyed reading Mr. Schu's interview with Lizi Boyd, author of Flashlight and Inside Outside, wordless picture books with room to explore. Both of these books include cutouts that allow parts of the next illustration to show through, inviting you to turn the page.
Mathew Winner also interviewed Lizi Boyd in his Let's Get Busy podcast. In the interview, Matthew suggested that Lizi's illustrations invite children to create art in her style. In particular, in Flashlight Lizi presents spreads drawn with white paint on a black background, except in the flashlight's beam, which she paints in full color. Matthew envisioned children drawing with white pens on black paper to imitate that look. I thought that was a great idea, and stored it away for future use.
Today, my mother and kids walked in while I was watching the trailer for Flashlight on Mr. Schu's blog. "Oh, I love that book!" Art project time!
We cut white triangles for the parts of our pictures that were to be in our beams of light, and glued them down onto black card stock. Then we drew with Prismacolor pencils and gel pens on both the black and white areas.
Benjamin's light source is just off the page on the left. He was particularly pleased with the lantern garland and the glowing campfire next to the tent.
Here are the results of our efforts. It made for a quick and fun art interlude. Thanks for looking, and thanks Lizi Boyd, Matthew Winner and Mr. Schu for the inspiration.
Mathew Winner also interviewed Lizi Boyd in his Let's Get Busy podcast. In the interview, Matthew suggested that Lizi's illustrations invite children to create art in her style. In particular, in Flashlight Lizi presents spreads drawn with white paint on a black background, except in the flashlight's beam, which she paints in full color. Matthew envisioned children drawing with white pens on black paper to imitate that look. I thought that was a great idea, and stored it away for future use.
Today, my mother and kids walked in while I was watching the trailer for Flashlight on Mr. Schu's blog. "Oh, I love that book!" Art project time!
We cut white triangles for the parts of our pictures that were to be in our beams of light, and glued them down onto black card stock. Then we drew with Prismacolor pencils and gel pens on both the black and white areas.
Benjamin's light source is just off the page on the left. He was particularly pleased with the lantern garland and the glowing campfire next to the tent.
this is awesome - what a great project!
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