Sunday, November 11, 2012
Minimalist Cardboard Freestanding Sculptures
*Sculpture*
The idea for this introductory Sculpture project came from an art teacher blog I found on Pinterest. Check out this amazing lesson here!
My class was videotaped by Mr. Silva, a math teacher at our school, during this unit. Meet me and meet my students. Check out the video!
Monday, May 21, 2012
Embroidered Quotes
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Plan: Students will embroider a quote using at least 3 different sewing stitches on felt. Paint is optional.
Plan: Students will embroider a quote using at least 3 different sewing stitches on felt. Paint is optional.
Mobiles
*Art One*
Students created mobiles using wire, paper mâché, tissue paper, and cardboard. We viewed two separate image slideshow of mobiles I found on Pinterest.
Students created mobiles using wire, paper mâché, tissue paper, and cardboard. We viewed two separate image slideshow of mobiles I found on Pinterest.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Analagous Precisionist Paintings on Canvas
*Studio Drawing and Painting"
After discussing what was happening in the US during the 1920's and talking about the Precionist style of painting, students combined images from two image packets showing architecture and architecture details on a canvas. They use two neighboring colors on the color wheel, white acrylic tinted with watercolor, and show gradients in the shapes.
After discussing what was happening in the US during the 1920's and talking about the Precionist style of painting, students combined images from two image packets showing architecture and architecture details on a canvas. They use two neighboring colors on the color wheel, white acrylic tinted with watercolor, and show gradients in the shapes.
Illusion of Depth Collage with Magazines and Oil Pastels
*Art One*
Students created collages showing 3-5 figures in an interior space. They will use the six illusion of depth "tricks".
Students created collages showing 3-5 figures in an interior space. They will use the six illusion of depth "tricks".
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Illusion of Depth Landscape
*Art One*
Students used overlapping, space, converging lines, placement, detail, and color to create the illusion of depth in a surreal landscape. Materials? Tempera, collage, charcoal, colored pencil...on brown paper bag!
Students used overlapping, space, converging lines, placement, detail, and color to create the illusion of depth in a surreal landscape. Materials? Tempera, collage, charcoal, colored pencil...on brown paper bag!
City Drawing in Perspective
*Art One*
Students used their knowledge of one-point perspective to draw a city from a bird's vantage point.
Student Checklist:
Created a full composition of buildings
connected all building edges to the vanishing point using converging lines
erased converging lines and vanishing point
added details to city (including rooftop details, roads, cars, people, parks, etc)
outlined buildings and details with pen/Sharpie
added gradients of colored pencil
used a limited palette to color city
close attention to details and craftsmanship
Preparation:
Model and guide students through five one-point perspective drawings (cubes, organic shapes, letters, railroad, houses). Notes on vocabulary. Image examples in a PowerPoint. Several usage packets at students' tables.
Students used their knowledge of one-point perspective to draw a city from a bird's vantage point.
Student Checklist:
Created a full composition of buildings
connected all building edges to the vanishing point using converging lines
erased converging lines and vanishing point
added details to city (including rooftop details, roads, cars, people, parks, etc)
outlined buildings and details with pen/Sharpie
added gradients of colored pencil
used a limited palette to color city
close attention to details and craftsmanship
Preparation:
Model and guide students through five one-point perspective drawings (cubes, organic shapes, letters, railroad, houses). Notes on vocabulary. Image examples in a PowerPoint. Several usage packets at students' tables.
Figures in Motion
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students created 4 or 5 proportional human figures in motion; the figures were simplified into shapes, collaged using colored tissue paper, and the background was painted using neutral tints and shades of acrylic paint.
Preparation: Practice drawing 'eight head adult' in sketchbook, child, take notes on gestures, thumbnails, human proportion. Spend 1 day giving extra credit for student models and quick gesture drawings in sketchbook. Show gesture drawing techniques so students can choose their own style. Provide figure drawing packets--people in various dance, video game-like action poses, etc.
Student Checklist:
4-5 figures sketched in motion
figures follow the average rules of human proportion
collage is used on figure shapes
background is painted using neutral tints and shades
neatness: did you need to sharpen the figure's edges after paint was applied? (pencil, pen, paint)
Students created 4 or 5 proportional human figures in motion; the figures were simplified into shapes, collaged using colored tissue paper, and the background was painted using neutral tints and shades of acrylic paint.
Preparation: Practice drawing 'eight head adult' in sketchbook, child, take notes on gestures, thumbnails, human proportion. Spend 1 day giving extra credit for student models and quick gesture drawings in sketchbook. Show gesture drawing techniques so students can choose their own style. Provide figure drawing packets--people in various dance, video game-like action poses, etc.
Student Checklist:
4-5 figures sketched in motion
figures follow the average rules of human proportion
collage is used on figure shapes
background is painted using neutral tints and shades
neatness: did you need to sharpen the figure's edges after paint was applied? (pencil, pen, paint)
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Group Painting (Non-Representational Art Using a Viewfinder)
*Art One*
Each table of students used a small viewfinder to find a small non -representational portion of a newspaper photograph to inspire a large scale tempera cake painting.
REFLECTION: I was not concerned with color-mixing. Most groups did not mix. I kept circulating the room to remind students that their painting should not look like something recognizeable! They were to simplify. I did discuss balance with some groups; paint red in one area then use it somewhere else in the composition as well. This was a great project for collaboration practice. Next year I will spend time showing Color Field artwork examples. I taped these large paintings up high on the classroom walls around the room and they add energy to the room. Great 2 day project.
Each table of students used a small viewfinder to find a small non -representational portion of a newspaper photograph to inspire a large scale tempera cake painting.
REFLECTION: I was not concerned with color-mixing. Most groups did not mix. I kept circulating the room to remind students that their painting should not look like something recognizeable! They were to simplify. I did discuss balance with some groups; paint red in one area then use it somewhere else in the composition as well. This was a great project for collaboration practice. Next year I will spend time showing Color Field artwork examples. I taped these large paintings up high on the classroom walls around the room and they add energy to the room. Great 2 day project.
Two Day Still Life India Ink Drawings
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students warmed up to drawing from life after setting up their own table still life displays. They used brushes, India Ink and neutral colored chalk.
REFLECTION: Each table had a piece of fabric to serve as a base to their still life displays. No erasing was possible because they drew with brushes and ink; great line variation in the contours. Students were proud of their work!
Students warmed up to drawing from life after setting up their own table still life displays. They used brushes, India Ink and neutral colored chalk.
REFLECTION: Each table had a piece of fabric to serve as a base to their still life displays. No erasing was possible because they drew with brushes and ink; great line variation in the contours. Students were proud of their work!
Appropriation Sketchbook Exercise
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students followed a series of steps to transfer a magazine image in their sketchbook, incorporate text, and use 3 materials to make their own work.
REFLECTION: This worked really well for a performance exam. It was messy; I had a bunch of different materials in baskets at each table. However, the results were fabulous.
Students followed a series of steps to transfer a magazine image in their sketchbook, incorporate text, and use 3 materials to make their own work.
REFLECTION: This worked really well for a performance exam. It was messy; I had a bunch of different materials in baskets at each table. However, the results were fabulous.
Brown Bag Figurative Portrait in an Interior Space.
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students drew seated classmates and glued them into an imagined interior space using oil pastel contours, tempera, and colored pencil patterns.
Artists to show: Alice Neel, Henri Matisse
Student Checklist:
PowerPoint on Alice Neel and Henri Matisse
Interior Space contours drawn in pencil and oil pastel on large brown grocery bag
drew 2 long seated poses of classmates on brown lunchbags
cut out figure(s) and glued into interior
painted with Tempera. Showed value gradients and mix with like/analogous colors
chose one pattern from fabric swatches and used colored pencils. Pattern must be apparent in at least 2 different areas to create movement and balance.
Both figure and background should have pattern.
Facial expression practice in sketchbook--figure(s) should show an emotion in final work.
Students drew seated classmates and glued them into an imagined interior space using oil pastel contours, tempera, and colored pencil patterns.
Artists to show: Alice Neel, Henri Matisse
Student Checklist:
PowerPoint on Alice Neel and Henri Matisse
Interior Space contours drawn in pencil and oil pastel on large brown grocery bag
drew 2 long seated poses of classmates on brown lunchbags
cut out figure(s) and glued into interior
painted with Tempera. Showed value gradients and mix with like/analogous colors
chose one pattern from fabric swatches and used colored pencils. Pattern must be apparent in at least 2 different areas to create movement and balance.
Both figure and background should have pattern.
Facial expression practice in sketchbook--figure(s) should show an emotion in final work.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Four Color Schemes Painting
*Art One*
Students created non-representational watercolor paintings showing 4 color schemes, oil pastel contour lines, and color gradients.
Steps/Student Checklist:
Found a 1''x2'' magazine image that is non-representational. "If you find an magazine image of a person or a place, make sure you cannot tell what the subject is in your selected rectangular detail."
Selected a patterned swatch of fabric.
Drew simplified image detail using pencil and colored oil pastel.
Incorporated fabric pattern into two areas within the drawing.
Used ruler to divide composition into 4 equal sections.
Completed 4 color wheel plan worksheet to plan the 4 color schemes.
Notes/practice in sketchbook using watercolor techniques.
Painted each of the four areas of painting while referencing 4 color wheel plan worksheet--use more and less water for more or less opacity/saturation of paint.
Glued on two neutral colored strips for borders.
Added emphasis and boldness to select areas using colored pencil gradients atop some dried watercolor areas.
Students created non-representational watercolor paintings showing 4 color schemes, oil pastel contour lines, and color gradients.
Steps/Student Checklist:
Found a 1''x2'' magazine image that is non-representational. "If you find an magazine image of a person or a place, make sure you cannot tell what the subject is in your selected rectangular detail."
Selected a patterned swatch of fabric.
Drew simplified image detail using pencil and colored oil pastel.
Incorporated fabric pattern into two areas within the drawing.
Used ruler to divide composition into 4 equal sections.
Completed 4 color wheel plan worksheet to plan the 4 color schemes.
Notes/practice in sketchbook using watercolor techniques.
Painted each of the four areas of painting while referencing 4 color wheel plan worksheet--use more and less water for more or less opacity/saturation of paint.
Glued on two neutral colored strips for borders.
Added emphasis and boldness to select areas using colored pencil gradients atop some dried watercolor areas.
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