At the Artist's Studio

Pritt Stick, Pritt Multi-Purpose Glue, scissors, ruler, clothes pegs, pieces of wood, cardboard boxes, matchboxes, wooden sticks, white and coloured paper, collage material (wallpapers, cloth, pieces of carpet, gift wrap paper, pictures from magazines,  etc.).

1. Take a rigid shoe box. Step by step, this shoe box will now be turned into an artist’s studio.
2. Measure all inner sides of the box and cut pieces of wallpaper or gift wrap papers of the same dimensions. Glue these coloured papers/wallpapers to the inner sides of the box. You may use the clothes pegs to press the adhesive surfaces together. Do the same with the outer sides of the box. If you do not find papers appropriate for the outside of the artist’s house, paint the „house walls“ on white paper and glue them to the outside of the box. You can glue windows and doors to the outside and, using the scissors, even make cut-outs so that you can open them.
3. Do the same with the floor. You may use pieces of carpet, cloth, cork or wooden panels for this and glue them on the inner floorage of the box. And your basic studio is already made.
4. Of course, the artist also needs furniture. Using glue you can make small cupboards and shelves from matchboxes. The outsides of the cupboards are then either painted or you glue coloured papers to them. With pieces of wood you can make the chairs and a table.
5. In any case, the artist needs an easel on which he paints his pictures. Using wooden sticks, you can make such an easel. Paint the brushes and a palette on a piece of cardboard, cut them out and glue them to the table or a shelf. A mirror on the studio wall should not be missed as the artist likes to portrait himself. Using aluminium foil you can imitate a mirroring surface.
6. You may decorate the studio walls with small, framed pictures of the artist which you have either painted yourself or you may wish to use reproductions found on the internet. Simple picture frames are easily made of wooden sticks; the more precious frames you may colour with gold or silver foil.
7. Should you lack further objects in your studio, such as a bucket or small containers for the paint, you may form them out of ceramic material and paint them, once they are dry. Whether the artist is rather poor or wealthy is not last reflected by his studio’s interior.

For a creative and inspiring introduction and the execution of the unit, we offer the following didactical-methodically elaborated materials at your disposal.

• Overhead Slide - ppt, 0,75 MB
• Material to be printed  (Artists Paintings Pictures) - doc, 0,5 MB 
• Worksheet (Artists) - doc, 0.4 mb