落叶小博物馆
本次活动中，我们受到安东尼奥·卡塔拉诺（Antonio Catalano）的小画册《落叶博物馆》（广告链接）的启发。作者借这本小书，引导我们重新发现日常中那些常被我们匆忙目光忽略的微小奇迹——比如一片落叶。我们与学生一起探讨：究竟什么事物才值得在博物馆中展出并被珍视？我们讨论了在我们眼中，哪些东西可被视为传家之宝、稀有之物或珍贵之物；它们或许代表了我们生命中的某个特定时刻、童年片段，抑或某段人际关系中的重要瞬间。于是我们自问：我们能否赋予一片看似微不足道、平凡无奇的落叶以价值，并使之富有诗意？
受此书启发，我们选择用一片简单的落叶，来呈现自己生命中的一个片段——这既是一场游戏，也是一则故事，更是一次邀请：邀请我们去观察、去想象、去倾听。为创建我们的“落叶小博物馆”，我们首先采集了一片叶子，并用彩铅将其临摹下来；与此同时，我们也思考并创编了一则简短的故事，讲述这片叶子的来历。正如书中所建议的那样，这个故事可以关联我们自身或他人生命中的某个特殊时刻，也可以关联某个历史时刻，或唤起我们某段记忆……
开展本次关于博物馆、写生与静物的活动，你需要准备以下材料：
- 一片用于临摹的叶子
- 一张普通纸（用于临摹叶子）
- 彩铅
- 绘图纸
- 各类纸张：如包装纸、报纸、描图纸、烘焙纸、卫生纸或薄纸、面包纸、书页、笔记本纸、再生纸、包装纸等
- 尺子、剪刀和胶水
首先，制作承载故事与叶子的底板：裁切一张尺寸为33 × 16.5 cm的绘图纸，对折成书本状。叶子需恰好放入右侧16.5 × 16.5 cm的正方形区域内。
第一步，用水彩绘制背景，所选颜色应为与我们所选叶子颜色互为互补色的色彩，自由挥洒，将整张画面涂满。
临摹叶子时，我们使用一张普通纸，先用铅笔勾勒轮廓，再用彩铅上色。为尽可能忠实地还原叶子的色彩，我们先以较浅的色调铺出底色，再逐层叠加深色与细节，通过分层描绘，力求贴近真实叶色。
待水彩底色干透后，我们开始分层制作，模仿原作者所营造的丰富肌理效果：首先，用毛笔或记号笔书写一句话；此处的文字仅作为图形性与装饰性的纹理，服务于后续图层。
接着，粘贴拼合各类纸张：如包装纸、报纸、描图纸、烘焙纸、卫生纸或薄纸、面包纸、书页、再生纸等。
进一步的步骤可包括：在部分区域覆盖白色蛋彩颜料或石膏底料，以增强这种综合材料技法的质感表现力。也可用油画棒或其他材料继续添加笔触，从而预留出一个中心空间——即一块中性纸面，或一片明度较浅或较深的区域，以便粘贴叶子。
混合技法底板制作完成后，将先前绘制好的叶子剪下，粘贴于页面上，并用黑色铅笔添加投影，使其更具真实感。
左侧页面留作书写我们的小故事：我们用手写方式，将故事写在一小块纸上——该纸张须取自我们此前用于拼贴的各类纸张之一；然后将其粘贴于页面中央。至此，我们的“落叶小博物馆”便完成了：
Small museum of fallen leaves
For this activity we were inspired by Antonio Catalano’s small picture book “Museum of Fallen Leaves” (advertising link). With this book the author guides us in reading the little daily wonders often invisible to our distracted eyes, like fallen leaves. We discussed with the students what can actually be exhibited and valued in a museum. We discussed about what in our eyes can represent an heirloom, a rarity, a valuable object, representative of a particular moment in our life, in our childhood, or a moment in a relationship. So we asked ourselves: can we value and make poetic an insignificant and banal thing like a fallen leaf?
Inspired by this book, we presented a moment in our lives by linking it to a simple object like a fallen leaf, a game but also a story and an invitation to look, imagine, listen. To create our little museum of fallen leaves, we first collected a leaf and copied it with colored pencils. At the same time we also thought and INVENTED a SHORT HISTORY for this leaf. As the book suggests, it may have to do with a particular moment in our life or someone else’s life, a historical moment or our memory…
For this activity about museums, life copy and still life you will need:
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A leaf to copy
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A sheet of normal paper on which to copy the leaf
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Coloured pencils
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Drawing sheet
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All types of paper: we can use wrapping paper, newspaper, tracing or baking paper, toilet paper or tissue paper, bread paper, book pages, notebook pages, recycled paper, wrapping paper…
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Ruler, scissors and glue
First we make the base where the story and the leaf will be glued, cutting out a DRAWING SHEET measuring 33 x 16.5 cm and folding it in two like a book. The leaf must fit in the 16.5×16.5cm square on the right.
As a first step, paint the background with watercolors, choosing COMPLEMENTARY colors to those of our LEAF, working freely and painting the entire surface.
To copy the leaf we used a sheet of normal paper, drawing the outline in pencil and then coloring with colored pencils. To copy the colors as faithfully as possible we created a colored base with the lighter colors and then we superimposed darker colors and details, proceeding in layers and trying to get as close as possible to the real colors.
Once the watercolor base was dry, we proceeded in layers, imitating the variety of surfaces created by the artist: first of all, we wrote a sentence with a brush or felt-tip pen, the purpose of this writing is only as a graphic and decorative texture, for subsequent layers.
We then glued and assembled different pieces of paper: we can use wrapping paper, newspaper, tracing or baking paper, toilet paper or tissue paper, bread paper, book pages, recycled paper.
A further step may be to superimpose white tempera or plaster priming on some parts, to enrich the material aspect of this mixed technique. It is also possible to intervene with further signs with oil pastels or other materials in order to prepare a central SPACE, a neutral paper or a light or dark area where to paste the leaf.
Una volta preparata la base a tecnica mista si ritaglia la foglia disegnata e si incolla sulla pagina, aggiungendo l’ombra con la matita nera per renderla più realistica.
On the left page there is space for our little story: we write it by hand on a small piece of paper made with one of the papers we used for the collage, and glue it in the center of the page. And here is our little museum of fallen leaves:
