Alien Names

write your name on a crease of folded paper. 

open it up.

this is your alien.

what does beauty look like to this alien?

create a home for your alien with it's definition of beauty.

i had a hard time figuring out what beauty was to my alien.

i am not the biggest abstract thinker. 

someone brought out a box of papers scraps.

i found most of the background pieces with the cuts already in them. 

this was beautiful to my alien.

through this project i learned that:

you can make something that you don't originally think you're good at. 

let the materials you work with become your inspiration.

beauty can be found in strange ways.

why i did what i did:

i like to play with negative space. hence, the black space.

i like to play with blocking out color. hence, the colored paper.

i like to make things stand out. hence, my yellow alien.

this is a great way for:

~letting the student's make something that isn't realistic~

~helping students be creative with their own talents and what they like~

~letting the students define beauty~

TUTORIAL:

start off by folding a colored piece of paper into half the long way.

turn it so that the crease is on the bottom and the open part is on the top.

write your name in big, block letters so they touch the crease at the bottom.

 

cut your name out of the paper, but make sure you DON'T cut the crease.

open it up.

this is your 'alien'

make your alien beautiful, based on what it thinks beauty is.

create a world that your alien lives in, based on what beauty is there.

put your alien in their beautiful world.

another tutorial for this project:

http://coloroutsidethelimits.blogspot.com/2014/11/alien-names.html