Vinyl Remixed - 7th grade

"Records? Vinyl? What's that Mrs. Clarke?

I officially feel old...

I scoured thrift shops to find old vinyl records for my students to paint on. I found 70 of them for .10 each and felt like I struck gold.

When I showed the students this project, I wanted them to have to problem solve, utilize one of those inherent skills they learn in art without even knowing they have learned it.

Assignment:

Create a painting on a vinyl record.
Use your problem solving skills to figure out how to make dark colors stand out on a black plastic record. (We used acrylic paint, as tempera would just flake off when it dries. We did not prime the vinyls in any way, just sketched with pencil and dove right in with paint!)
Subject: Free choice!

Students were able to choose any subject they wanted, realistic, or abstract/nonobjective, or anything in between.

I am very happy with the results:

This one was created by one of my Learning Support Students