Figure-Ground Illusion: Profile Face & Fancy Vase

Figure-Ground Illusion: Profile Face & Fancy Vase is a video demonstration and an pdf printable 2-page pdf that will lead your students through the steps of creating this optical illusion. I have created a very simple way to help students successfully make two symmetrical profiles to obtain the visual illusion of a vase in the negative space.

The movie uses text subtitles to define and reinforce art vocabulary.

The video demonstrates using:

• printer paper
• pencil
• markers
• scissors

You could make this a more colorful piece of art if you begin with construction paper. I usually have student chose complementary color combinations such as

Yellow & Purple

Blue & Orange

Red & Green

The embellishment of the vase can be painted with paint markers or tempera paints.

View my students' gallery of finished artwork on artsonia for inspiration.

Looking a digital extension to this project? I've tried having students create the vase that their own face makes digitally using drawing tools on the iPad.View my blog post to see this idea. I have not updated this project yet.

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