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Draw Like Eric Carle: Tissue Paper Collage (Part 20)

🎨Studio Brief #40

Eric Carle, author of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' created his illustrations by painting tissue paper with bright colors and then cutting and gluing shapes.

🎯 Your mission

Look at it. Then look at it for one minute longer.

⚡ The twist

Look first, draw second. Don't peek twice.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The Sistine Chapel ceiling took Michelangelo 4 years — and he hated every minute.

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Artist Spotlight

🎨 Yayoi Kusama has been making polka dots for over 70 years and is still going.

Practice painted tissue collage in this art lesson: draw like eric carle: tissue paper collage (part 20).

What You'll Learn

Eric Carle, author of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' created his illustrations by painting tissue paper with bright colors and then cutting and gluing shapes.

Techniques You'll Practice

painted tissue collageillustrationlayering

Materials Needed

Construction paperGlue stick

Step-by-Step Guide

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Where you see this in real life

The next time you visit a museum (or look one up online), you'll see things others miss.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Visit (or virtually tour) one museum this week.

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For the dinner table

“What's the most interesting piece of art you've seen this year?”

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