On August 5, 2015 I decided to accept a challenge and try something new.  I am now an elementary art teacher! I am completely out of my comfort zone yet excited about what these students are teaching me.  Visit this page and see what we are learning.

Gustav Klimt Portraits

Right Vs. Left Brain

Right Vs. Left Brain 

I found this lesson on Pinterest and decided to try it with my advanced art students.  I will definitely be using this lesson again.

  Lesson Overview: Students will explore the findings between what makes the right brain different from the left brain and how they assist in learning. Students will take a survey to learn about whether or not they are more right brained or left brained and use those findings to create an illustration about their right or left brains.

The lesson will be introduced through a power point presentation. Students will learn about how the right brain and the left brain serve different functions for learning.I encourage students to take notes and complete rough sketches they may use in their drawings.   They will then participate in a survey to view results on which side is stronger. By summarizing their findings, they will then use these ideas in their artwork

Development : Using the research found from the survey, students will create an illustration inspired by right vs left brain concepts. Using any 2d media, the illustration should be an artistic interpretation of their findings. 

Tooling Foil

Sun Tooling 

 Step 1: We looked at pictures of Renaissance Suns.  A 6x6 outline of a sun is drawn on tracing paper and placed on top of a 6x6 piece of foil.  Put the tracing paper on top of the foil and trace over the sun using a ball point pen. This will transfer the sun image onto the foil.  

Step 2: With various tools ( popsicle sticks, embossing tools, wooden dowels). Outline  the sun.  Work from front to back to pull and push the foil into the desired shape.  

Step 3: Enhance details bu spray painting the foil.  Black and gold worked best.  

Last the dry foil sun image is glued to a 12x12 sheet of paper and designs and patterns were drawn in.  Work was colored with color pencil.  

Oil Pastels

Oil Pastels

Patterned Cars   

Students had to choose a mode of transportation.  Next the object was drawn large on white paper and outlined in black sharpie.  We used oil pastels to color in the car.  We did a light color layer followed by a dark color on top of the light.  Black oil pastels were colored on top of the existing layers of pastels.  Careful not to use to much black. We added black in various areas to add variety to the work.  

Mosaics

Animal Mosaics

After viewing many examples of mosaics students created their own mosaics.  A mosaic is a picture or design made of tiny pieces of glass, paper, or tile and adhered to a surface.Students used marker to simulate the appearance of tile.  A template of an animal was provided.  

Students then carefully cut out the shape and glued it to colored or textured paper.  

    

This is a good quick project to end the week with.  

Resource: Arteascuola.com 

Warm and Cool Colors

Water Color Grids 

We measured 1 in. boxes on 12 X 18 paper.

Next an image was drawn in over the boxes.  Students then chose the foreground or background to add warm or cool colors.  

We painted with watercolor. Once work is dry students may outline some areas with black sharpie to enhance the image.