Companion Guide for an art unit on This Bridge Will Not Be Gray by Dave Eggers and Illustrations by Tucker Nichols
project, presentation, project exemplars by Amy Zschaber www.amyzschaber.com artful.artsy.amy@gmail.com
Companion Guide for an art unit on This Bridge Will Not Be Gray by Dave Eggers and Illustrations by Tucker Nichols
1. How-To Make a Companion Art
Project for Elementary Students for
book: This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
by Dave Eggers
Project design, exemplars, and presentation by Amy Zschaber
www.amyzschaber.com artful.artsy.amy@gmail.com
Images of Tucker Nichol’s in-progress work is from http://goo.gl/F29UeV
4. TPS –Where was the Golden Gate Bridge
made? (It is still there today)
5. TPS – What colors did most people think
the Golden Gate Bridge should be painted?
6. TPS – What is the fancy name for the color
of the Golden Gate Bridge?
7. TPS -How do you think the illustrator,
Tucker Nichols, made the art for This
Bridge Will Not Be Gray?
8. Tucker Nichols used lots of cut paper
to make the art. This is called collage.
9. TPS – Why do you think Tucker Nichols
chose to make the art for This Bridge Will
Not Be Gray as a collage?
10. TPS – What important things do you
observe about the Golden Gate Bridge?
11. Photographic images and illustrations that
show mostly land or sea are landscapes or
seascapes.
Are pictures and illustrations of the Golden Gate Bridge landscapes or
seascapes? Why do you think this?
12. We are going to make a collage of the
Golden Gate Bridge!