Studio Red: daily do & draw 4/2

Dear Studio Red,

Today we are going to think about touch!  We are remembering the texture books we created together.  We each created a collection of materials to tell a story inspired by how they felt.  Do you have materials you love to feel the most?  Today we will think about collections as one way we explore how things feel!

Love, Lauri and Emily

daily do & draw

DO

How will you begin your collection?

We want to share some photographs to inspire your organization.  There are so many ways to group objects and store them!

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"We invite you to begin to collect toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls! We are excited to play with these later!" Lauri

Today we invite you to begin your own collections.  As we collect objects we find inside and outside, we discover more about the materials that make up our world.  When we gather materials we get to touch them, we feel them in our hands, and over time make new discoveries, get new ideas, and play in new ways.

“In the video below, I will show you some ideas to help you get started, and most importantly, begin to organize your collections!” Emily

Play a game with touch!

Step 1: Choose one object from your collection and put it in a bag so it is hidden from view.

Step 2: Ask your play partner to put their hand in bag to feel the object carefully.

Step 3: As your partner feels the object, how many attributes can they figure out, only using their sense of touch? As they name them, you count!

If you need some help, you may try and name:

shapes (flat faces, 3D)
materials
edges
corners & points
temperature
texture
plasticity
size
weight

Step 4: Trade roles!  See which object can help you name the most!

DRAW

What new texture can you add to your sketchbook?

You may not have noticed, but you have already created a collection of paper!  Your home sketchbook holds paper together in a collection!  Today, zooming into texture, we invite you to add one piece of paper that feels different from the paper you already have in your sketchbook.  It might be smooth, rough, lightweight, heavy, or corrugated.  Believe it or not, there is paper of all kinds hiding around your house!  You may even find paper-like materials that are not truly paper at all!  We have created a list below to give you some ideas about where you might find this paper.

parchment paper
newspaper
paper towel
paper napkins
paper bags
aluminium foil
corrugated paper (from packets of crackers, biscuits, savoury snacks)
corrugated fiberboard (AKA cardboard box)
paperboard (AKA carton from cereal, pasta, cracker boxes)
photo paper (AKA squeaky paper)
printing paper
shiny magazine paper
wrapping paper
bubble wrap
plastic bags
plastic packaging

Once you have chosen one or more different textures to add, it is time to draw!

As you experiment, you will figure out how your drawing utensils work differently on this different texture.  Do all utensils make marks?