Henri Matisse inspired art

Henri Matisse lived and painted in Paris.  Later in his life when he was already a noted artist, he moved to Nice (that's pronounced Neece) in France, a place where he found much inspiration.

Matisse was excellent with colors and in some of his favorite pieces he used paper cutouts to "sculpt" (as he said) pictures.

A Bird or Two is a book about Henri Matisse

some examples of Matisse's paper cutouts.  In the Fancy Nancy book,
if you look closely you can see she is making a butterfly out of
construction paper cut outs.  (This inspired our butterfly pictures later in this post)

We attempted our own versions of Matisse's art style using paper that Kayla and Elise painted previously.  I helped Kayla and Elise cut (and tear) the paper into smaller pieces and they glued them onto a new paper to form their own pictures.

As you can see, Elise's picture is really just a bunch of pretty cutouts
pasted on the paper in no particular order or fashion. 

I was highly impressed with Kayla's finished product.  She did this completely ON HER OWN.  She made herself and a flower.

Impressive, no?

Our next pieces of artwork were inspired by our Fancy Nancy-Aspiring Artist book.  Fancy Nancy was, of course, inspired by Henri Matisse for her butterfly project, and so in turn, were we.

This time we cut out the pieces of the butterfly and painted them and then glued them onto another paper for a lovely finished product.

 

Kayla's piece
Notice she tried out some dots and stripes

Elise's piece
Kayla filled in a bit since Elise left about half of it white, so I guess it's really only half hers.