Tiled Angry Moose . . . RAWR!

Warning: what you are about to see is very angry, so don’t get too close!
The purpose of creating an angry moose tessellation is to create and enjoy a piece of homemade art, and to learn that art is not just about beautiful, but it is also about imagination and creation.

 

Materials used:
– A hexagon shaped piece of card stock
– pencil
– scissors
– tape (clear or masking)
– red pencil crayon
– light sky blue pencil crayon
– jade green pencil crayon
– aqua pencil crayon
– 30cm by 50cm piece of art paper

Steps:

1. First, cut the hexagon out of the card stock.
2. Second, draw a ship shape on the top of the hexagon.
3. Then cut it out, and slide the nibble (the cut out piece) to the opposite side (the bottom) of the hexagon. Tape it good with no spaces.
4. Next, draw a castle shape on the bottom right side, cut out and slide it to the opposite side (top left side). Tape it.
5. Then draw a shape that looks like a back of a camel on the bottom left side, cut it out and slide to the top right corner or the hexagon. Tape it.
6. Start tessellating by starting in the middle of the 30cm by 50cm paper, the shape should be positioned with the two pieces right beside each other.
7. Continue tessellating by connecting one of the sides with the exact indent, just like a puzzle.
8. When the whole sheet is filled with the shape, start detailing it by adding its eye and nose. The nose is by the eye, which is right at the castle indent. eg. like this
9. The eye should be coloured jade green, and the nose should be coloured aqua. The body should be red.
10. But the antlers should be the light sky blue, and the moose shading should be dark, light, dark etc. eg.  

Follow these easy steps, and you should get a beautiful angry moose tessellation! WARNING: since you have made the tiled angry moose I should tell you something: NEVER and I mean NEVER look him/her in the eye (because he/she will be jealous of you having two eyes.).

~ by kassoneil on April 11, 2011.