If you were a cave artist, what would you use for tools? There are no markers, paints, brushes or pencils to pick up. How would you make marks, and on what?
6th grade students invented tools to draw and paint with by using found items from around the room. Painting tools were invented with toothpicks, Q-tips, straws, paper plates, beads, yarn and an assortment of items from our junk box.
Students answered these questions before drawing, then compared their answers to how they felt after they used their new tools:
Do tools effect how you draw?
Does your drawing come from your mind, your tools or your hand?
Would tools change the style of art you draw in?
Does the tool make the type of marks you thought it would?
They looked at Phil Hanson, an artist who creates art with unusual tools. Sometimes he uses his hands, sometimes his feet, he may ride a tricyle across paper or create an image entirely out of matches or candles. Many of his images disappear after he has made them (like an image out of matches that burns up in the end) and so like Andy Goldsworthy, they live through his videos and photographs.
To see a wide variety of art made with unusual art tools, go to: http://www.philinthecircle.com//
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