PI day

“Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi”

~William L. Schaaf, Nature and History of Pi

    Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi and talk to their friends about math.

    We are going to celebrate Pi Day by designing buildings and creating a skyline. Each number will be a different building.

Material:

   - Colour cardboard DIN A4

   - Newspaper, magazines, and other paper for the collage
   - Scissors
   - Glue

Building measures

    - Width: 7 cm  

   - Heighth: Each student will be given one of the Pi numbers. This number will be multiplied by 3 cm and the result number will be the height.

     Each student will decorate their building as their wish. It could be a house, a garage, a shop, a skyscraper, etc.

Dripped

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Hands

What can be done by looking to a hand? Let's test your imagination!!

M. Apud

A. Cordero

Llucia P.

M. Rodríguez

Asunción

Peter

Portraits: Silhouettes

     Remember that we already know what a silohuette is: it is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject (Wikipedia). 

So let's put it into practice!!!

1. We will tape a paper to the wall and had them sit on a chair showing their profile.
2. A light will throw a shadow on the paper (white or coloured) that we will trace with a pencil.
3. We will cut along the line to get our silhouette.

 

Art and texture

You will be given a copy of an art materpiece to create your own artwork. Use all the material you have available that are easy to glue on the paper.

Let your creativity fly!!

Photography and geometric shapes

Look around and find geometric shapes to photograph.

Do you remember which are the geometric shapes?

Colour Contrast

    Josef Albers' book Interaction of Colour (1970) is widely influential. Albers claims that colours react when they are next to another colour. We should never consider the characteristics of a colour as absolute, but always relating to the enviroment.

One page from Interaction of Colour.

    Contrast can be defined  as “the difference in visual properties that makes an object (or its representation in an image) distinguishable from other objects and the background.” In plain English that could be described at its most basic level as “things which look different from one another”. (Love of graphics)

Try this aplication to test the contrast in colours,  
by educacionplastica.net