Step 1: Go through magazines and tear out people in interesting positions.  Fitness magazines like SHAPE! are great for this lesson. So are ski and snowboard mags.  One thing to avoid, people shapes that feature only the waist up and are too big. They will block your interesting background arrangement.

Step 2: take the whole magazine page and choose three colors of construction paper.

Step 3: Stack all three papers. Put the magazine picture on top. Paper clip on all four sides. Cut the magazine person out like he or she is a paper doll. You will cut three exact copies of that magazine photo at the same time. Set aside

Step 4: Use the scrap box. Get three colors for the background shapes. The same colors used for the people or choose something with contrast. You decide.

Step 5: From the background colors cut: 3 large squares, 3 small squares, 3 triangles and 3 rectangles (or other shapes of your choice...just make sure there are 3 of each)

Step 6: Arrange and glue the 12 shapes in an interesting way on a piece of black paper.

Step 7: Glue the three people shapes onto the composition. Make sure to use overlap and use either diagonal or curved movement from the arrangement of the people.



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