Henri Matisse Art Lesson

I started out my art lesson by reading "Matisse" by Laurence Anholt.  There is a series of books on famous artists that Anholt has produce ... you must check them out as they are very well done.  Once finished, we talked about making our own stained glass art.  I used a die press to punch out flowers on 11"x17" construction paper cut in half.  Cutting out brightly coloured tissue paper, students were able to glue the tissue down around the flower cut out and successfully glue the back side of the stained glass.  We hung them above our desks to celebrate what we learned about Matisse.