Thinking about Matisse (collage on paper)

Hello hivers, an happy Sunday to you all!
I hope you spent a nice weekend! ❤️
Here it was a sunny warm day and after a busy Saturday, I spent the most part of today in relax on my sofa watching some episodes of "Star trek: Starfleet academy". Me and my hubby Hive account@paolobeneforti love so much the scifi tv movies and series and Star trek is one of our favorites starting from the first (old, very old) one and so we are watching also this new series. To be honest, Starfleet Academy (in our opinion) is not our favorite ones (we prefer the classic old one and The next Generation), but it's good enough to watch it in a relaxed Sunday. ❤️

This morning, before the lunch, I decided to create some collages in the Matisse style to work on them with the kids during the lesson of tomorrow
and, in the following pic, you can see the example I created:

Henri Matisse, the famous french painter, created wonderful collages (Cut-Outs) during the last years of his life. Cause his bad health he can't work on paintings as before and so he started to use scissors and vivid colored paper on white paper (with gouache) to create wornderful artworks represented plants, animals, figures, and different shapes.

Thinking about the next lesson with the kids, I decided to talk to them about Matisse and his tecniques, showing them also some example created by myself to explore our imagination.
As usual, I took some pics while I was painting it so you can see the process too:

I hope you like it!
See ya soon and stay safe,
Silvia

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