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Be still my beating heart. A few years ago I got a giant book of Charley Harper artwork for father's day. I was blown away by the sheer amount of brilliant work the man produced in his lifetime. Thousands of remarkable images. The ways that he interpreted the natural world into geometric shapes that are clean and sharp astound me. I try to do at least one project based on his work every year. This year I chose a bird and it's reflection print to do a 2nd grade project with. It was a collage…

Charley Harper was an illustrator and a graphic designer. He grew up on a farm and though he didn’t like working there, he loved walking through the woods and looking for birds and other anim…

Charlie Harper

My students recently learned about the art of Charley Harper, his love of animals and nature, and the use of symmetry in his work. After looking at his artwork, and some photographs of cardinals in the wild, we set out to create our winter scenes. We cut and pasted colored construction paper, then used markers, crayons, white tempera paint, and glitter to complete our collages. We talked a lot about symmetry, as the shapes of our cardinals, bird baths, and leaves were created. The bright…

I think I threw this image out as a teaser sometime back. I actually made it last year, but never showed it off! I was waiting until I had the pattern to go with it. But I never made a pattern. And…

My students recently learned about the art of Charley Harper, his love of animals and nature, and the use of symmetry in his work. After looking at his artwork, and some photographs of cardinals in the wild, we set out to create our winter scenes. We cut and pasted colored construction paper, then used markers, crayons, white tempera paint, and glitter to complete our collages. We talked a lot about symmetry, as the shapes of our cardinals, bird baths, and leaves were created. The bright…

Second graders took a look at some of the work by Charley Harper today. He is described as a modernist artist and is best known for his simple geometric shapes drawings. Most of his work depicts wildlife. The focus today was on several of his prints with a cardinal theme. Students followed along as they drew their cardinals using the instructions below. The next step involved taking a look at the vegetation outside the windows of the classroom in order to really see what a heavy frost made…

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