Thursday, February 28, 2013

2nd Grade Gyotaku/Collage Results

Here are a few of this week's gyotaku results from 2nd graders. As children cut out their fish, colored the eye (trying to pick up one color from their background) and glued the fish, meaningful conversation included words like: overlap, diagonal, horizontal, and balance.







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  1. MaryFebruary 28, 2013 at 6:53 PM

    These are great! Love the combination of colors, textures and collage.

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  2. JoeMarch 1, 2013 at 3:01 AM

    These are so great! Mary's spot on - the combination of colour and texture are really effective : )

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  3. Elizabeth March 1, 2013 at 4:26 AM

    Ditto above, these are stunning :) Elizabeth

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  4. Chesterbrook Academy ElementaryMarch 3, 2013 at 8:10 AM

    Awesome project Christie.
    I love the results.Colors and textures are so beautiful.

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  5. PhylMarch 3, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    I just love the way these came together - really fabulous! I suppose I should some day blog my gyotaku story, working with a real fish. I have written about it as a comment of other blogs when they post gyotaku, but I have never actually told it on my own blog!

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  6. AnonymousMarch 5, 2013 at 12:02 AM

    Thanks for blogging this impressive lesson.

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  7. MissMarch 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM

    So impressive- the amount of detail in the fish prints is so fantastic!

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    1. Christie - Fine LinesMarch 27, 2013 at 2:07 PM

      I know!! These rubber fish have really detailed scales, etc!!!

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  8. UnknownApril 1, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    These look great.

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  9. AnonymousMay 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM

    what color did you use for printing that gave it a two toned look?
    great prints

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    1. Christie - Fine LinesMay 19, 2013 at 8:42 PM

      We simply used Sax black cake tempera, thinned just enough with water to get a good print of the fine scales.

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    2. Bethany ForgioneAugust 21, 2013 at 5:32 PM

      How did you get such a great print? Did they just paint it and then put paper over it? I am confused!!! I have the same fish but when I did it - they didn't come out as well at all~

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    3. Christie - Fine LinesAugust 21, 2013 at 5:45 PM

      We used black tempera cake. I have 5 fish, so I had 5 kids at a time at the printing table and I stood there and controlled how much water was added to the paint. If it was too watery(or not watery enough) they didn't get a great print. Once the fish was shiny they placed the paper (we just used plain copier paper) over the fish and massaged with one hand while holding the paper still with the other hand. Most came out pretty well, but, as always, there were a one or two duds in each class.

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