I introduced Year 6 to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and her prolific art and obsession with dots. She grew up on her parent’s seed nursery surrounded by flowers, plants and even pumpkins. I shared this video about how Kusama became an artist and expressed herself through her drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, fashion, performance art and ‘infinity’ rooms.
We looked at some of her flower paintings that have a ‘net’ background and flowers. Students used A4 paper to draw their own flowers- realistic or abstract, outlined with a fine liner, then coloured with markers or watercolours.
Next they chose a coloured piece of cover paper that would contrast with their flower and began to draw their net design: drawing short lines in different directions but connected.
The flower shapes were then cut out (a little tedious for some!) and glued onto their net background.
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Hi Liz, Is there a lesson plan / rubric for the dotty flowers! Thanks.
Hi Miriam, no, I haven’t done a lesson plan or rubric for that activity. Regards, Liz