The Idea Zone
  by Paule Belleau

A Bank of New Ideas to
feed the imagination and stimulate creation.

Analog Images
Collage Material
Costumes

Curves
A Landscape

Mail Art

Paleolithic painting
 

Analog Images

Analog images are free-form pictures made from the inspiration of a word.

Make a figurative or a non-figurative (abstract) image starting from the word 'fire', or 'ocean', or 'happiness'...

-Draw spontaneously, without thinking about what it looks like.

   

Collage Material

- With the palettes and tools, find different ways to fill the page.

- Print each of your productions.

- Use them to make a collage.

- Put it all together with colored construction paper.

   

Costumes

In every country, traditional costumes are different. Fabrics, colors and patterns reflect the varied human traditions.

- You can find lots of costume ideas at
Costume History
.

- Create a person dressed in a traditional costume, with different colors and textures.

- Use transparency to create special effects.

   
Curves

Curves are rounded lines like circles or parts of circles. The painter Henri Matisse was an expert at curves.

- The works of Matisse are on view at Matisse Museum

Use different tools to create an image composed of curved lines and rounded forms.

   

A landscape

Landscape is a subject chosen by many painters.

- There is an exhibition of landscapes on the site
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
.

- Create a landscape inspired by a real or imaginary place.

- Use the widest stroke to make the background.

- Then use strokes of different widths to make the details of the landscape.

   

Mail Art

Mail Art is a more recent artistic genre. In mail-art you produce message-works that mix painting and writing.

- Visit this site dedicated to Mail Art .

- Choose the person you'll send the image to.

- Create a work of mail art using the various palettes and tools.

- Send your creation by e-mail.

   

Paleolithic Painting

Before inventing writing, humans made pictures on the walls of caves. They drew using charcoal, ochre, and chalk.

You can see some magnificent Paleolithic paintings at
The Lascaux Cave .


- Use the palettes and tools of your choice to show a cave wall. Find a way to depict the roughness of a wall of stone.

- Outline animals, and then add details.