# Exploring Art Series: Torn Paper

SERIES GUIDE MAY BE VIEWED HERE (LINK) Synopsis on container Demonstrates a new kind of art expression. First using newspaper as practice material and then working with sheets of different colored paper, students tear out a variety of shapes, figures and designs which are attached to a paper background to form pictures. Depicts examples of work of elementary and secondary students as well as teachers, showing how this type of art activity gives free reign to the imagination without the restriction imposed by other media. Full text of "Exploring Art Series" insert: EXPLORING ART SERIES (3 films) Torn Paper • Crayon Resist • Monotype Prints Designed For: Elementary and secondary students, teachers, art supervisors, amateur and professional artists. Film Facts: Each film approximately 5 minutes, 16mm sound and color. The films may be used separately or as a series. Purposes: To show new ways in which these techniques can be used effectively. To encourage student participation in creative activities. To provide ideas for experimentation by advanced students. To show the application of design principles and their contribution to the quality of the finished product. Synopsis: Children and adults demonstrate clever and unusual ways of: Forming pictures with shapes and figures torn from colored paper, then adhered to a paper background. Creating designs with wax crayon and rubber cement, which acts as a resist to watercolor and tempera washes. Making prints by drawing on glass with…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1966
- By: Bailey-Film Associates
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/tornpaper_201608)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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