Project #6: Blooming Into Spring

This was our project that we choose to present to the class for our lesson. Our topic was drawing. Students will first see Georgia O'Keeffe's flower drawings within the PowerPoint given. The teachers will then explain how her drawing are in focus, enlarged, fill the whole page, and even some run off. Teachers will then pass out pictures of different types of flowers. They will then choose a flower to to draw. Then, the teachers will show their examples. The students will use crayons or oil pastels to create their focused flower. 
Once their flowers are made, they will use watered down tempra paint to cover over their flowers. This will create a cool effect of how the flowers will look. The black will seep into whatever the crayon or pastel did not cover. 

                                                   Our bulletin board

                                                              My rose
Extension Activity:
This can be part of a science lesson. When the students are learning about the parts of a flower, they can draw their favorite flower. After they have drawn their favorite flower they can explain to the class why they choose that flower.

Project #5: Hidden Safari
For this project, first we had to choose an animal that we would see on a safari in Africa. Once we choose which animal we wanted, we draw it on a piece of paper. Draw the animal in blue colored pencil. After you have drawn the animal, you are to use red, yellow, orange and other colors like that. With these colors you are to make designs the cover the remaining white on the page as well as over your animal. By the time you are done making shapes and designs all over the paper, you should not be able to see your animal that you drew in blue colored pencil.
Once all of that is complete, cut out red foil in the shape of glasses and glue it to a piece of construction paper that is of the same shape. These will be your magic glasses that you will be able to see your animal again.
Create a note card with three clues as to what your animal is.

Extension Activity:
You can incorporate this activity with math. For the designs and shapes you can use geometric shapes to cover your animal. After the students are done with their project, they can describe and list the geometric shapes shown in their art project. 

Project #4: Eric Karl Story Collage
This was one of my favorite projects. We were to create a scene of a story of our choice. I choose a running horse across the prairie because horses are my life. I live on a ranch and raise registered quarter horses, so horses will always be a part of my life. For this project, we first grabbed two pieces of drawing paper and use what ever we could to create designs on the paper. Then, we were to think about a scene from a book or even a scene in your head that you made up, and put it on paper. We were to have the scene of motion that will tell a story. Starting the story off with, "And so the Journey Begins..." 

 Extension Activity:
After a history lesson, you could have students create a scene from history. They can use their imaginations to create any scene in history. After they have created a scene, they will have the beginning or ending saying written on the scene. Once, the project is finished, they will present the artwork to the class.

Project #3: Van Gogh Tissue Art
For this project, we took tissue paper and placed in on construction paper. Once we had the tissue paper in the place we wanted it we glue and painted it down on the construction paper. Then, when the tissue paper is dry after the gluing, we were to choose a setting. I choose a tree for a setting because I am from the country and it reminds me of home. I also used to love climbing trees. The movement in this tissue art is that it is raining. The wind is also blowing the rain around within the art piece.

Extension Activity:
With students working in small groups, have them share their art work within the group. After every student has presented their artwork, they will choose 1 to reflect on in their journals. This can be part of their creative writing assignment. They can write about their own artwork if they so choose to.

Project #2

Scavenger Hunt:

For this project, I went out around town and took pictures of the different elements and principles of art. I have pictures from in town and out of town. This project allowed students to get out of the classroom and explore the world for real life examples of elements and principles. It was a fun and effective way to see how art is everywhere in our world. We got to connect on a personal level with the elements and principles. Here are five examples of elements and/or principles from the pictures I've taken:

Value - Refers to light and dark

The houses go from dark to light. Houses on Lincoln St., Aberdeen, SD. 

Color - Three properties: hue, value, intensity; made of white light; depends on light

Sunset at the Goetz Ranch. 

Emphasis - Creates dominance or focus

East tree patch at the Goetz Ranch. 

 

Space - has one and two point perspectives; you can feel the depth

Feeding time at the Goetz Ranch.

 

Lines - Suggests movement; length and width are present

LB’s dorsal stripe indicates a line. Taken at the Goetz Ranch.

Extension Activity: Students can choose one concept or principle and create a PowerPoint of different pictures around their community of that once concept or principle. They are to define the concept or principle and then add the pictures with descriptions of where the pictures were taken and why they fit into that concept or principle.