Hidden Safari

The hidden safari project turned out very well! The picture does not quite give it justice. It is very cool when you know what you're looking for that you can see the image. Yet the viewer won't notice the image when you don't know what you're looking for.

Extension: Each student will draw a president in the hidden background. At the bottom of the page the students will give 5 clues/facts/accomplishments that their president made. Then all the students will exchange and see if others can find out who they drew!

Oil Pastel Skyline

This class we learn about Frank Gehry. We saw many different interesting styles of architecture in a variety of different cities. For the creation of the buildings, we cut out construction paper and drew the outline of the 3 buildings in a different pattern. We used colored pastels to make the building glow like a city at night. 

Extension: After talking about the glow of a city, each student will do research on the resources that are used yearly by big cities like Toronto, NY City, Orlando, or Chicago. They will then search for solutions to help the city's most extreme usages and present to the class.

Starry Night Collage

In this lesson we learned about Vincent Van Gogh and his piece, Starry Night. We used colored tissue paper for the background and cut out silhouettes for our foreground. I used color pastels to show more emphasis and give more shape to my foreground. In the background, I used the pastels to add more color so there wasn't black space. I didn't want black space, because the back ground was a sunset and I wanted the sky to be full of color.

Extension: After doing this project, the students would explain the climates, vegetation, and animals involved in the environment that they made. Then they would go on to make a food web for their environment and present what they learned about their habitat to the class.

Clay

This project we learned about different aspects of clay and how to make clay projects. We were able to customize our hands with addition or subtraction. As you can see from the picture below, I did both. My initials were the subtraction and the addition was the basketball on the bottom of the palm.

Extension: My extension would be language arts based. We would make hands and connect them when each individual is finished. Then each student would write a few sentences about why cooperation is important in the classroom.

3-D Hot Air Balloon

This lesson we had partners and painted plates. We folded them a certain way to make the masterpiece below. It took a lot of cooperation and teamwork to get this project done. It was a nice bonding time for my partner and me.

Extension: My lesson would be about transportation and how it has changed throughout time. The students would make a timeline of when different types of transportation were invented. When we get to each vehicle we would make a model of it in some way if it is through drawing, clay, or other types of models.

Printmaking

This was the printmaking lesson. We used gel pads, paint, stencils, and rollers to make these creations. It gave us all a chance to do something we have never done before and be creative with it. Once we got comfortable we were able to experiment with some more stuff, like more than one color and more than one stencil style. It was a lot of fun!

Extension: My extension is a science project where we pretend that a certain environment goes extinct and the students will make fossils for different animals in the environment they choose. They will write a reflection of how it went extinct and what different animals they made fossils for.

Elements and Principles of Design: Pictures

We made presentations of the photo that we took that represent different elements and principle of art that we see in our everyday life. Many of my pictures are from my house or places that I am regularly to show that this is some aspect of art in everything you see. Below are my favorite/best representations of these elements/principles.

The picture above shows space.

This picture shows shapes.

This picture shows lines.

This picture shows variety

Extension: My extension would have the students find an object that has symmetry or asymmetry. The students would then trace half the picture and draw the other half with a pencil and color with colored pencils.