Project #32 Miroco Machiko, Creating Your Own World

The colorful world of Miroco Machico is fun, playful and very imaginative.  Japanese painter and illustrator Miroco Machico lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.  

We were inspired by her vibrant paintings of animals, plants and vegetables to create some very fun stencils.  Some are taken from her paintings and others are student designs inspired by her paintings.  

Next we painted, stamped and silkscreened some papers.  Repurposed papers like cereal boxes and other packaging are perfect for both making the stencils and the finished paintings.  We used the stencils to cut our shapes from our painted papers after they dried.  We glued those elements onto blank cards to make greeting cards and applied them to large pieces of paper to create our own artworks.  Scroll down to see the stencils that we made and some finished cards and artworks.

If you have worked on Project #19 and made your stamps try using them on the painted papers before or after cutting the shapes out. 

You can also use Miroco's paintings as inspiration for paintings or drawings of your own.  Acrylics, tempera, colored pencils and pastels are perfect materials for this.  

 

Below is a selection of painted papers, stencils and cutouts for mixed media artworks that we used for this project.  And a finished student artwork. 

Vocabulary:  imaginative, stencils, mixed-media, collage, still-life, landscape