Alma Woodsey Adams Inspired Art

 

For one of my after school classes we worked on tuning our fine motor skills and making a simple fun radial rainbow inspired by the art of Alma Woodsey Adams. First, we looked at her art and talked about what we saw. We talked about the colors her art has and we discussed what materials students thought she used. Next, we started working on our own color paper masterpiece.

Students traced a big circular paint palette so they could easily see and follow a circle shape as they glued their cut paper. They also got different sheets of colored paper that they teared with their fingers so it could look like the textures we can find in Adam's work. Carefully, students ripped color paper and glued it in a circular way using the circle they traced as a guide.