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Course: The Metropolitan Museum of Art > Unit 2
Lesson 4: Create art- Weave on a mini loom
- Draw and ink comic panels
- Create a flip book
- Trace and cut paper silhouettes
- Pose like a sculpture
- Make a symmetrical print
- Make a photogram
- Make a mixed-up beings book
- Draw with an eraser
- Create scratch art
- Create an optical toy: Thaumatrope
- Create a collage
- Design a fashion accessory: Fancy cuffs
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Make a photogram
Join Skyler, age 7, and learn how to make a photogram. Roughly translated from Greek, the word photogram means "light drawing.".
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♪ (music) ♪ Use sun-sensitive paper with tape or tacks Mount a sheet on a piece of cardboard. Place opaque materials
on the sheet and secure. Try using strips of paper
to make a pattern. Make another composition using arts and crafts supplies like foam shapes or wire and any other material that interest you. Protect your composition from the sun before heading outside Expose your photogram to the sun. When the sheet turns light, remove it from the sun, experiment ofn a blank sheet using your hand or objects from nature. Indoors, remove the materials. Develop the sheet in water, and let it dry. ♪ (music) ♪