Art of St. George and the Dragon: Black card stained glass paper cut out project with tissue paper

There is one powerpoints - this focuses on the St. George images and on Marc Chagall. In the project students use their imagination and to draw dragons and St. George’s battle. Students look at the Stained Glass artist Marc Chagall and then make up their St. George story on paper to transfer to black paper. There are instructions and worksheets.

Students will need to use a stanley knife and safety working with blades is imperative for this project.

Students need to have very simple designs and stylise their drawings into basic shapes.

Therebis also a section om using a computer to make a symmetry pattern.

WEEKLY Plan
Two lessons weekly 7 weeks to
1/2To look at examples of St George and the Dragon and to draw out one’s own St. George and Dragon picture.

1/2. To look at examples of Stained Glass windows and look at the artist Marc Chagall.

3/4 To simplify the designs of St. George and the Dragon into thick lines and shapes to transfer onto black paper with chalk.

5 /6 To trace designs onto black paper shapes and begin to cut the negative shapes around the lines. To simplify these lines one can take the students to a computer room and do a basic symmetry pattern and lay this over their drawing and students begin to simplify the shapes into geometric forms.

7 / 8.- To make up a sheet of tissue paper on plastic paper to put behind the black paper cut out. Tear or cut the tissue paper into shapes at random and just lay this down on plastic with PVA glue. When this is dry the tissue paper will peel off the plastic.

11 / 12 – To continue to draw into black paper and put together.

13 – Evaluation of project

To design a picture of St. George and the dragon’ on paper using resources in the first powerpoint.

To refine the details of the designs into simple outlines-Teachers could photocopy and enlarge details to help students.

To look at the Stained Glass artist Marc Chagall (second powerpoint) and to think how they could use his style in their work

To transfer designs to black paper and to cut the negative shapes around the lines using the stanley knife.

To make a sheet of coloured paper on a plastic sheet using PVA glue and tissue paper.