Our first project of the quarter comes from the wonderful blog of a NYC artist, Julie Fei Fan Balzer. In an old post from March of 2011 she had a guest artist blogger who creates mixed media art journal pages from the Netherlands, Sandra van der Geest. I took van de Geest's art journal pages as inspiration for our own mixed media art and writing project. You can use the link below to explore her blog post on Balzer Designs Blog. Today was about finding a quote that we could relate to personally. Students will be required to not only visually represent their quote, but also reflect and write on what it means to them so they had to choose carefully. The iPads from the JCF were a great help. Today we looked for words and letters to recreate our quotes. We also reinforced our quote pages by gluing them to another page. This will make our paper strong enough to hold the paint, paper and any other media we decide to use, ensuring that our work looks its best. days five and six:Students got to paint with everyday objects to create an abstract background for their quotes and images. Then got to use these items to add some kind of framing and detail. Popsicle sticks, bread bag tabs, cotton balls and bubble wrap were all given new life as art tools over these 2 days. days seven and eight:After days of collecting and creating backgrounds, it is time to assemble our pages!!! Student simply glued on their quotes and images with Elmers glue. After drying overnight- we added detail with oil, paint and metallic Sharpies- you can see a sneak peek below. Tomorrow, students will do a writing piece that accompanies their artwork about the connection between their lives and the quotes they chose.
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This super short 2-day week brings us our returning batch of artists from quarter one. All posts below this are for the 2nd quarter and all posts above this are for the 3rd quarter. Check back often to see all the amazing things ART 8 will create over the next 9 weeks!
ART 8 is diving into the Cubist world of Pablo Picasso for the next couple weeks! As an end project, students will complete a self portrait painting in Picasso's signature portrait style. To begin, we has a discussion about Cubism as students debated images on a Powerpoint presentation. I got alot of "What is that?!" "That is supposed to be a flattering portrait?!!" and " I don't get it!" but in the end, they could see and appreciate the change in art, the concept and had fun playing Roll-A-Picasso. Next we moved on to coloring portraits of each other. Students did their best to make their "worst" portraits of classmates! Each student turned in 2, will chose their favorite for the class to vote on and the top 3 Picasso apprentices will receive a yummy prize! Take a look at our final project below! Day one: Powerpoint intro and roll-a-picassoBelow is my PPT for introducing Cubism. I tend to make my PPTs very vague with little info actually typed out. I want my students to debate the art, come to their own conclusions, and use the information about the history of the art world to appreciate the various movements. I guide discussion but it is a very informal approach with much debate and opinion.
Day two: partner portraits!Students created portraits of classmates, and even me using Picasso's signature style. We had a ton of fun making our "best" portraits of our friends. Monday we will vote for our top 3. As you can see we had a ton of fun with this! day three: picking our top 3 & selfie sketches!and the winners are...1st: Jolee 2nd: Michael 3rd: Sydeny and Rylie Click on the images to see the full picture. day four through .....: final selfie sketches and paint! |
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