Art 5N - Twilight Winter Silhouette and Sky Mosaics

A mosaic is the art of decorating a surface with pictures and patterns made of little pieces of stone, glass or tiles of different colours. Mosaics can be used indoors on walls, floors and ceilings. Mosaics are sometimes used outdoors on pavements.

The distinct and stark contrast of a black silhouette against a landscape consisting of background of combinations of warm or cool colour schemes has been an inspiration and study for many artists and photographers. The two styles blended together produces a very interesting artistic effect.

The task of the students was to create a blackened tree silhouette against the mosaic landscape background of a winter sky at twilight. In creating their projects, ensure that special consideration must be taken with respect to the choice of colours and selection of shapes or images (rectangles, triangles and squares).  They were to pick a dominant color scheme for your sky. As we are trying to capture the colors of twilight, the students realized they should use predominantly cool colors (blue – purple) with a black silhouetted tree in the foreground. In constructing their projects, the students organized and glued the construction paper tiles to the background before the final step of cutting out and gluing the tree / ground silhouette from black construction paper over the mosaic.

The following are examples of some of the student work that was created.