Hidden Safari Picture

For our hidden safari picture, we started off by using a light blue pencil to draw any safari animal on a white piece of paper. We chose our safari animal from a packet that we received from our teacher. When we drew the animal, we drew it upside down and didn’t press very hard with the pencil. After we drew the animal, we took crayons using warm colors to draw different patterns over the animal drawing. I used yellow, orange, red, and magenta to draw four different patterns over the animal. After that, we mounted our white piece of paper onto a colored piece of paper.

 

The idea of drawing different patterns using warm colors over the animal drawing was because when you hold the picture up an arms length away, you didn’t want to be able to tell what animal that you drew or be able to see the picture. That’s why we also made red goggles/glasses using grafix clear lay film. We used these glasses to look at the pictures; we were able to see the animal clearly through the patterns when we used the glasses. It was really neat and fun!

 

An extension activity for this project could be to use this when talking about animals or life cycles of an animal during a science class. The students could pick a certain animal to draw as well as include some more information depending on what they are learning about them in science class. It’s a fun activity, especially when you get to use the glasses; kids really get into it and they think the glasses are “magical”.

Eric Karle Inspired Collages

For our Eric Karle Inspired Collages, we had to create a layout for a storybook that was based on the artwork by Eric Karle. We first had to choose a certain character and decide on the scene of a story. Then, we sketched the scene and character on a piece of 12x18 scratch paper.  

We created paste paper by taking a piece of white construction paper and mixing different colors and designs/textures on the piece of paper until the whole thing was covered. We let those colored paste papers dry. We used different colored paste papers to cut out the shapes of the character/scene from our scratch paper.

When all the shapes were cut out, we then laid them all down on a piece of construction paper and assembled our collage. After that, we had to glue all the pieces down. Finally, along with the character and scene on the piece of construction paper, we had to write a caption that would be on that page of the storybook!

I think a good extension activity for this would be to do something similar with the character and the scene. You could have your students choose any scene and character just like we did with this project. I do like the idea of doing a layout based on an artist but something different could be that the students could use pieces or strips from a magazine to put over the shapes of the character and scene. That would be really different and cool to see all of the colors and designs that you could come up with!

Van Gogh Inspired Collage

 

        This project is a landscape collage that I created using tissue paper. This project was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting. For this project, I first picked out different sizes, shapes, and colors of tissue paper. I laid those pieces on a black piece of construction paper. After that, I took a gel medium and painted that over the whole paper to help the tissue paper stick. This gave it a glossy finish. After that, I used blue construction paper and cut out buildings that looked like a city landscape. Then, I used a silver sharpie marker to create many different lines on the gel medium and on the buildings. These lines with movement represented Van Gogh's style!

 

        An extension activity that you could do with something like this is have each student pick an artist and do a project similar to this one; such as using lines with movement to represent the artist's style. Also, students could share their project they created based on their artist then give a few facts or a short presentation on why they used the specific lines, colors, patterns, etc. that they did, based on their artist.

 

CHAPTERS 20-22 ART HISTORY:

        After reading chapters 20-22 on art history, I think there are alot of great ideas that you could use in your classroom to incorporate art history. One of the ideas that I really liked when I read about it was in chapter 21 when it talked about presentations on an Artist's life. I think these would be fun to do; students could even do them with partners. They would be interesting because then the students could create a piece of artwork, that resembles their artist's style to help explain them to the class. Also, chapter 21 has alot of art history vocabulary words. Students could each take a word; define/explain it and then create artwork based on that word or that represents that word. This gives students the opportunity to learn different words or about artists that they may not have known about before!

5 pictures of elements/principles of design

This picture is an example of the element lines. It is of a track. The lines on the track are white and some are straight, curved, or dashed.



This picture shows the principle pattern. It is of wallpaper. You can see the pattern of the different colored moons and stars that repeat eachother on the wallpaper.

This picture represents the principle of balance. It is a photo of a picture frame that hangs on a wall. The picture shows balance because if you would cut the picture frame in half either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, both sides would be the exact same and would represent symmetrical balance.

This is an example of the element texture. It is taken of the tiles on the floor of a bathroom. The texture is mainly smooth; the cracks of the tiles make it bumpy.

This picture is an example of the element value. It is taken of one of my purses. This picture has different lights and darks and it’s easy to see the value change on the purse between the white and black colors.