One of the main mediums I create my own art in is mixed media reverse painting and collage on old windows. My best friend's dad had all of the windows in his house replaced and gave me some 30 plus windows. My studio at home could not handle such a large quantity and I immediately thought about doing a lesson with my older students with the windows.
I also connected it to behavior and effort. At the beginning of the school year, I showed my students examples of my window art and the blank windows I had brought to school. I informed them that if they worked hard on their art throughout the year and had good behavior as a class, that we would create a collaborative artwork on a window in the Spring.
I collected old education books and maps from the thrift stores and let them cut out images that they liked to collage onto the back. Then the classes brainstormed on shapes, and each class voted on one shape to use to create a repetition on their window. They drew them on with sharpe markers. Finally, they finished the windows by painting them.
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