Matisse Shadow

There was a lot of discussion last week about what was happening in Matisse's Icarus so we took another look at it again this week. Some ideas that students had were that the image was dancing, swimming, leaping, doing a cartwheel or floating in space. We talked about the idea that perhaps the image was a shadow of someone.
Today students started by cutting out a shadow image. Next, they used the skills they learned last week to draw a person in the same position as the shadow. After the outline of their person was complete they added background and features to their person to allow the viewer to recognize what activity is happening in the image.
It's wonderful how many ideas came out of one shadow image!