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K-8 art lessons and ideasMrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-52356836155927603342015-10-07T07:56:00.000-07:002015-10-07T07:56:04.199-07:00more dot art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-11888146689928712042015-05-28T08:43:00.001-07:002015-05-28T08:43:47.067-07:00for the birds...James John AudubonIt has been two years since I last did this lesson and we are doing it again right now which has made me pull up the older photos. This lesson is inspired by James John Audubon...who if you are unaware had a kind of crazy childhood/young adult hood...but I digress. Being the last assignment of the school years 7th and 8th graders are allowed to choose any media I have available to create their artwork inspired by a REAL bird. Here are a few from the past. Enjoy<br />
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The darn rotated photos! now I am remembering some of the reasons I stopped blogging and that was a big one. No time to try to fix it sorry folks</div>
Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-45378082088084268412015-05-24T17:01:00.002-07:002015-05-24T17:01:28.139-07:00one year laterWow it really has been a year since I posted. Funny how pintrest changed the world of art teacher blogging. Our district ended up not striking when a deal was made just days before we were scheduled to walk. One year later it all feels like a bad dream and I am happy it is in the past. Since I haven't been blogging I have gotten bad about taking photos but here are a few from a student choice unit inspired by the art Gwenn Seemel.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-62058582192489756252013-12-08T21:38:00.002-08:002013-12-08T21:38:21.404-08:00Chuck Close inspiredChuck Close inspired grid drawings or paintings done by last years 7th and 8th graders. This years group is starting them this week and I came across these photos from last year and realized I never shared. Sadly most of the kids took their artwork home before I could photograph it. Voted favorite project of the year by the 8th graders.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-83015166696277004572013-10-13T08:07:00.000-07:002013-10-13T08:07:10.011-07:00complex color wheels and guitars <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These were done by 7th and 8th grade everyday students. They worked very hard on them for several weeks. They are quite large. The guitars are life size and the color wheels are 14" diameter. I saw the color wheel guitar idea <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/332668198?view_mode=2">here at the dieviantArt </a>and tweaked it for our assignment needs.<br />
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Students had to either design a color wheel wedge slice with four sections and then trace twelve times or they had to draw their guitar body neck and head and divided into twelve sections then divided into four sections.<br />
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In each section students had to mix the parent color, a tint, a shade and show the complementary color of the parent color.<br />
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I allowed the kids to use: Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black and Magenta tempera paint.<br />
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To top it off each student had to paint a gray scale for either the neck of the guitar or that corresponded with the content of their color wheel design.<br />
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<br />Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-23223909283771243772013-10-07T19:37:00.001-07:002013-10-07T19:37:09.604-07:00First lessons 2013Whew...after a crazy start we mostly got our scheduling issues worked out. The only strange part is now I have one random class of 15 students and the rest are 30-35 students.<br />
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Anyway part of my job is keeping 12 large bulletin boards full. Usually that is not a problem... however, we have back to school night a whopping two weeks after the very first full day of school and I am supposed to have all the bulletin boards full of student artwork by that night! We only managed to fill 8 this year.<br />
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We did three of my lessons that result in good results fast....if you have followed my blog for a while you have seen all four but this is what this years results looked like. Sorry some of the photos are a little funny, my TA got creative with her photo taking.<br />
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Theses turned out really nice this year....I showed the kids how I wanted the stamping done and got much better results than the last<a href="http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-lessonsthe-good-and-not-so-good.html"> time I let them carve stamps three years ago</a>. Argg blogger keeps rotating the photos!<br />
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Radial names: We do them each year...I always like them. I let the kids use the Prang metallic markers that the sales rep brought me last spring. They loved them...I felt ehe about them and still like the ones that used standard markers best. <a href="http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2012/10/radial-name-tutorial.html"> Tutorial is here.</a><br />
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Several posts back I mentioned how I had been contacted by a rep from an art supply company who wanted to come to my classroom to do a lesson with my kids and bring some free supplies along. I asked around and no one had ever done this before but my principal said it was ok. Today the ladies came to my 6/7th grade class. If I understood right one was a rep from Dixon and the other from Prang. The lady from Prang was the local Oregon rep (a very very good person to know I decided). I thought you all may want to know what my experience was like if you ever get contacted for something similar. They did not ask me to write a review...they have no clue I have this blog.<br />
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Both were super nice and my kids liked them and they brought me a TON of cool stuff we got to keep! Some basic supplies like some markers and paintbrushes (which I always need and appreciate) and some new/novel/funky things that I can't afford to order like neon colored pencils, metallic markers and metallic watercolors and a bunch of air cellulose clay.<br />
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Our lesson was artist trading cards with 3-D aspects but most of my kids either made something out of their clay or made a drawing on the card. Only a few were able to figure out how to incorporated the 3-D into the card. As far as the lesson went, it was too open ended for one class period. My kids like to plan, make rough drafts, have a topic to work within...that may reflect my teaching style or this batch of kids, or the age... or a bit of each. The presenters are going to another middle school art room tomorrow (a friend of mine) so I helped them brainstorm how to alter the lesson for tomorrow. I suggested they have the kids make music themed cards with 3-D music notes and instruments and headphones and such. Thanks to one of my 6th grade students for the suggestion.<br />
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What my kids did LOVE was the supplies. Give 6th graders metallic and neon things and they are in heaven. Some really liked the air dry clay and others found it hard to work with because it doesn't stick to itself as readily as wet clay. They really liked the metallic watercolors which I also like but have never have been able to justify buying. What we really loved were the Prang metallic markers which were awesome on black paper. I think they left me 6 sets of them! If they hold up they are something I may just have to get for special lessons.<br />
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If I am doing my math right they left me about $300 worth of supplies and all I had to do was let them test a lesson with one class. Um...hello best deal ever! Will I do it again if I get asked? yep. Does it make me more likely to order Prang stuff...well I already like there stuff so I guess it just reinforces my like of their products.<br />
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What would you do with all these new metallic supplies?Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-10198218964680351682013-02-17T13:35:00.000-08:002013-02-17T13:35:17.249-08:00Eric Carle inspired collages <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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6th and 7th graders worked for a while on these Eric Carle inspired collages. I would say the results of this lesson were either wonderful or disappointing with very little in between (not posting the disappointing ones). This group of kids was hit by the flu so a lot of them were out of school for quite a few classes during this lesson which really threw off the momentum of the lesson.<br />
Regardless we got some really neat ones I want to share with you.<br />
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she got great texture in the "grass" and I love the paper she made for the puma's body<br />
We found using a mix of tempera and cheep acrylic craft paint helped make the best textures. Adding a touch of metalic craft paint to the painted papers really added something special.<br />
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great great job getting texture into the painted paper<br />
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Great use of bubble wrap for the background texture<br />
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was out sick a lot and it shows....but he had a good start<br />
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this is great work for this student, she worked very hard on it and was very proud of it, I love the jellybean print paper she brought in for her rainbow<br />
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my photos are not doing this one justice, she did such an amazing job on all aspects of it<br />
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The sloth is HUGE, on the biggest sheet of construction paper I could find!<br />
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also out sick quite a lot but another great start<br />
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In the future I will make sure to have a stockpile of pre-made painted papers for kids to pull from if they are out sick, working really slowly or just need bits of one color. This lesson dragged on a bit longer than I wanted because the kids kept making more and more painted papers.</div>
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So, at the risk of having the person who I'm talking about somehow see this post...I have to talk about a class I am taking. Sometimes it is nice to go to a class in person instead of just online. However, there are so few art teachers around Portland that I have yet to find an art related post grad class for ART teachers. I end up going to classes for classroom teachers that are trying to get more art into the contained classroom. I have done about six of these classes and sometimes they are great and sometimes no so much.<br />
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This class is nice so far but I'm not sure what to think about tomorrow's lesson. <br />
We are to bring in a coloring book image and learn how to transfer the images and then use watercolor techniques in them. I thinking knowing how to transfer an image is a really great skill, but I just don't know how I feel about using a coloring book for the image. I'm not opposed to using tracers at times or even giving the kids a particular shape to help them get started with a drawing...but transferring a coloring book image is making me feel a bit ehhhhh. I can't see myself doing it in my middle school classroom...or really picture how I would have used it when I taught k-5 per say....but maybe I am being judgmental and should not critique any method to get art into the contained classroom<br />
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On a personal note it is going to take all my willpower to go through with the lesson....I don't know how I am going to bring myself to spend several hours on a transferred coloring book image. I am thinking about bringing in a black line drawing I make myself or maybe a embroidery pattern....I don't know. I feel a lot of pressure to bring in a coloring book image and just do the lesson because I know the second I deviate from the the assigned lesson that my classmates will see that and I worry that will send the message that I don't like the teachers lesson (as an art educator) and be disrespectful to the instructor. Ugg what to do.<br />
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On an lesson related note here are two preview images of our 6th-7th Eric Carle inspired animal collages...more photos coming this weekend.<br />
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I just love her little hedgie!<br />
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Just for Phyl because I know she will read this and probably take the time to comment:)Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-36373331594094720682013-01-31T07:33:00.002-08:002013-01-31T07:33:52.165-08:00tangle letters feedback <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So remember the zentangle letters from the start of last year (and if you have not been reading that long this is the link)<a href="http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-lessonsthe-good-and-not-so-good.html"> http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-lessonsthe-good-and-not-so-good.html</a><br />
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So it came down to I loved the work the kids did on making the letters like the one above, but I was less than excited about the mini stamps they made and printed around the boarder.<br />
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it was just too hard for the kids to get a good clean print each time and keep the prints eve and on the black paper.<br />
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So 6th grade is about to do this lesson and I just don't know what to have them do with the boarder area on the background paper. I feel like it is a bit too boring if we just leave it black, but I don't want it to get too distracting from the letters they make....any ideas?Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-91049161321979151692013-01-01T11:03:00.002-08:002013-01-01T11:04:45.452-08:00Australian x-ray and dot style animals <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All artwork done by 6th grade students with no previous art classes! class of 35 students for this group<br />
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Next students practice drawing 8 different Australian animals using some worksheets I got from a class years ago. The kids can also look at images from Bancroft's book and try to draw additional animals.<br />
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I have tried so many versions of this lesson over the last 8 years from scratch art to paint to oil pastel. With this years combo I am 90% happy and I think next year I will have finally settled on the official lesson.<br />
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The kids then choose the animal they want to draw for their final work of art and receive a square 12 inch by 12 inch sheet of light brown construction paper. They use a ruler to make a boarder and then in pencil draw a pattern in the boarder, their animal in the middle and two symbols that would correlate with that animal. So for the platypus above the student added the symbol for river and sun and the emu below has sun and the symbol for emu tracks.<br />
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Student's went over all pencil lines with black crayon or sharpie then colored their animal and symbols using colored pencils and paying attention to correct use of material to get vibrant color.<br />
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Next came the dotting. I asked the students to find 3/4 colors they used in their animal and symbols and dot around the animal using radiating lines of those colors. Practicing our doting in the previous lesson really helped with the quality of dots in this lesson.<br />
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Then came the boarder. I had the kids use black glue to outline the boarder and then set it to dry overnight. </div>
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Then, and this is the part that I still don't love, I had the kids use chalk pastel in two or three colors to color in the boarders. While I think the colors turned out nice and the kids enjoyed using the chalk...even after spraying the colors smudged and started to get messy. I still suspect that this is an side effect of the super junky chalk pastels I have.<br />
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Yet as I have mentioned before, chalk pastel is my least used media in my classroom so I don't want to waste any of my tinny budget buying nice sets. Next year I think I will simply have the kids use oil pastel instead of chalk.<br />
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This student convinced me to let her add two baby dingoes instead of two symbols<br />
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and this young man choose to draw a Numbat (yes that is a real animal) along with another type of small rodent who's name I don't remember.<br />
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Next up: this years Australia unit "wild card" lesson.Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-45109766158070877552012-12-28T13:42:00.000-08:002012-12-28T13:42:37.231-08:00Australia dot style mini paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time for 6th grade's yearly study of Australian Aboriginal art. We always learn about dot painting and x-ray style drawing and then throw in something a little different for fun. Last year we made the x-ray style stuffies...I'll post this year's wild card in a few days. We start our unit learning a bit about the Aboriginal Dream time stories, symbols and dot painting. We talk about why Dream time stories and symbols differ from region to region and most are not to be shared with non Aboriginal people. We also talk about how traditionally dot paintings were not to be shared with non Aboriginals and look at how modern day Australian artists are creating dot paintings that do not revel sacred stories. <br />
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After our day of learning about Australian Aboriginal art we looked at a set of Aboriginal symbols and played matching and story building games...I got my set of symbols from a class I took but we also use this set from<a href="http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/cimages/iconography.gif"> Aboriginal art online</a><br />
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and this set from this site<a href="http://www.aboriginalartshop.com/assets/Artlandish_Symbols_completed_-_footer2.jpg"> http://www.aboriginalartshop.com/assets/Artlandish_Symbols_completed_-_footer2.jpg</a><br />
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After practicing using the symbols for storytelling each student chooses one to three symbols for their mini paintings that are about 3x5 inches and done on scrap matt board.<br />
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Students paint their matt board a solid base color with acrylic and set it to dry. When dry they sketch their symbol(s) and paint them in solid black. Then using either the back of a crayon, the back of a paintbrush or the back or point of a bamboo skewer each student radiates the outline of their symbol in dots using a 2-3 colors.<br />
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Doing "mini" paintings makes these novel and keeps the kids from getting burnt out on dotting so the lesson gets done in two days instead of dragging on forever. Plus is gives the kids good dotting practice for their next x-ray and dot style animal lesson.<br />
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Great work from this year's group of 6th graders....I wish I had time to post all 35 of them !Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-58370868699891582422012-12-23T09:56:00.002-08:002013-01-01T11:04:36.925-08:00fun with calligrams My 6th-8th graders had a great time with calligrams this fall. They got really into it this year....I attribute three changes I made to this years lesson and a T.V. show.<br />
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Changes this year:<br />
This year I if they were going to do an object I had them go look up how to say that object in six different languages. They really liked that. This girl also looked up how to say the different parts of a car in different languages.<br />
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I also said they could expand from a poem or text that they wrote to other variety of text such as song lyrics (clean version) which a lot of kids choose to do<br />
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and dialogue from a movie was another popular choice<br />
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Man do they love the new Dr. Who<br />
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Then some 7th grade work:<br />
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Over the years I have had many many students who are on the autism spectrum...some love art some don't, some have talent for it and others not. However, the last two years I have had a young man who is Autistic in the more traditional definition of the term (I don't know how to better word it). He is very quiet, has a really hard time communicating with others, he seems very contained in his own head and as a teacher, and I know for his peers, it is very hard to get a sense of who he is as a person. While this student and I have "talked" many times and I have learned how to help him understand and process what I want him to do in the classroom, this lesson was the first time I felt like I was able to see the real him.... and what an amazing young man he is.<br />
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This was his artwork for the illuminated letter lesson that I posted about before. This was the first time he had a really open ended lesson from me but not the first time he had worked in colored pencil in my classroom.<br />
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He used no how to draw books, just asked to look at my book of reptiles and if he could use a imaginary animal (yes of course!) ...these are just the wonderfully expressive and charming animals and images he choose to express who he is and what he likes.<br />
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I was hoping to talk with his parents at conferences but it didn't work out....I know he likes to draw at home but these are so awesome I think he would be a great book illustrator (and maybe author!) when he get's older.<br />
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I really look forward to to seeing what else he makes this year and I am going to make a big effort to adapt my lessons for him so that he has more time to work on them and can show his own style.<br />
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At the end of the lesson I was praising him for what an amazing job he did and I don't know if it made him uncomfortable, or if he has a hard time showing happiness, but he said, "ok, good" and kept his very clam serious look he always has. I hope inside he was smiling and knowing what a amazing young man he is.Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-82806494765595270252012-12-06T21:46:00.001-08:002012-12-06T21:46:20.557-08:00glazing green-wear? please help<br />
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I'm making cupcake stands with my 6/7th grade class... it has been a slow, less than ideal lesson that will need major work before I do it again. It has taken us so long to build them that I am really crunched for time on firing the green-wear and then glaze firing before winter break and there is no way I am letting this lesson drag on after the break.<br />
I have always been told NOT to apply glaze to green-wear and fire it for several reasons that I fully understand but I basically have no choice this time.<br />
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So my question is: have you ever glazed green-wear and then successfully fired it (low fire) any suggestions or tips that you can pass along to me so I don't turn this blah clay lesson into an epic disaster of a firing?<br />
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p.s. we do use ducan undercoats....in this case we will be using the sprinkle series and I always have the kids add a layer of clear coatMrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-2179287363129712082012-11-04T16:59:00.000-08:002012-11-04T16:59:08.311-08:00Illuminated letters 2012 version<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For our newest installment of Illuminated letters we went back to paper and maker, colored pencil and or crayon. We viewed my illuminated letter powerpoint that we watch for each version of this lesson. New this year I had kids fill out a little, "about me" survey to help them brainstorm for the lesson. This proved very helpful for me later on when the kids had some artist block.<br />
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These were done by 7th and 8th grade student's many who are repeats to my program.<br />
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I asked each student to choose a letter that applied to them and then use 5-9 images that told the story of who they were.<br />
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The kids were to really focus on using their art materials correctly.<br />
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I tried to leave this lesson a bit more open to see what the kids would do with it. Overall I was really happy with the end results.<br />
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none of these are really my strongest artists but they all worked hard to do their personal best<br />
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New to art this year, I think he has really neat ideas like his paintball splattered letter R</div>
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Love this tribute to the new and classic Dr. Who....do you see how she drew herself wearing the classic Dr. Who scarf?<br />
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Darn this photo doesn't capture the insane detail of the work this young man does. He blows my mind. Here is a close up picture of the detail doodling he did inside his letter B.<br />
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a bit creepy...but there is a maturity in his work that is way beyond what you would expect from a 8th grade boy.<br />
I still need to take a photo of the very best one though done by one of my autistic students who can break out of his intense internal world through his art...I can't wait to share his worth with you.<br />
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Nothing ground breaking here, just some classic color wheels, but one of those skills I feel all middle school students need to master. 6th graders went through a series of practice exercises before making their final color wheel. First we use crayons and as a group color a color wheel while talking about the primary, secondary and intermediate colors. (Keep in mind some of my 6th graders have never had art). The next class I have table groups work together to paint a rather large group color wheel. They are given the primary colors and have to mix their secondaries and intermediate colors and get them in the correct place on the color wheel.<br />
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After this group challenge I provided some troubleshooting instruction on how to correctly mix colors (what colors are the strongest...moving light to dark and so on) Next class each student has to paint a practice color wheel (takes about 20 min) and then starts creating their final color wheel.<br />
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I pre-print wedges that equal 1/12 of a circle. I ask the kids to manipulate the top arch of the wedge to create a simple shape that will radiate around the circle. Some kids went a little fancier and others stayed pretty plain.<br />
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After cutting out the wedge each student traces it 12 times on a large sheet of white paper and then paint their color wheel. When the kids are done painting they need to use sharpie to go over their pencil lines, cut out their color wheel and then glue it to black paper.<br />
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Students are graded on clean brushwork, solid colors and that each student has correctly created their 12 colors.<br />
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I don't know if it my camera or editing or computer screen but I feel like the colors the kids made are showing up distorted on the computer screen... particularly in the orange family.<br />
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One helpful hint we have learned is to use more of teal blue than a standard blue to get better color mixing. We also add a tinny dot of white to our purple colors to make them easier to see.<br />
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I first did this lesson as a 6th grader myself close to 20 years ago. I believe we did it in math class while talking about different types of symmetry. While there are several art blogs out there that have lovely photos of student work using the same process I'm not finding a tutorial with photos of how to lead your student's through the process so here is one. Be warned this is photo heavy.<br />
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First off you want plain old copy paper...nothing fancy you want to be able to see through the paper easily. Cut that copy paper into whatever size square you want. We go for 8 1/2 inches by 8 1/2.<br />
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Guide the student's (ideally under a document camera) into folding the paper into fourths and then opening it back flat again. Then have them fold the paper diagonally. Open the paper. Fold it diagonal the other direction.<br />
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Have the kids keep the paper folded into this right triangle.<br />
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Have them fold it down into a smaller triangle....another right triangle.<br />
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And fold it down one more time. It needs to be folded in this order for it to look right when you open it up.<br />
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With the paper folded into the smallest right triangle have them set the paper on the table in front of them with the 90 degree angle up.<br />
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Then moving left to right have the kids write their name in block or bubble letters.<br />
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Make sure they have each letter touch the top and bottom of the triangle. Kids who want a challenge can use fancier lettering or overlapping or add in a random shape or two...but really your standard block letters will do just fine. What is important is that those letters touch the TOP and BOTTOM<br />
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Have the kids ink over their pencil lines with sharpie.<br />
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Now open up the paper. Have the kids line up in front of you.<br />
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YOU fold the paper so that they get the first tracing location correct. This will only take you a few seconds per kid and will save a ton of time in the long run. See the photo for how to make the first fold. <br />
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Send the kids to a window to trace in the first space. (two triangles have lettering now)<br />
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You can have them go right to sharpie or work in pencil and then later go over the pencil with sharpie. Warn the kids that at this step their project will probably look like a deranged 1st grader made it and they will come tell you they are doing it wrong and need to start over. Tell them they need to push on. Their tracing is going to be backwards, or upside down or both. If after they fill in all 8 spaces it still looks messed up then they can start over again. Very quickly these go from "What the heck," to "that is so cool!".<br />
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Have the kids come back and check in with you after the trace the first section. Fold the paper for them as shown in the photo below.<br />
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Yes I know you think a 6th, 7th, 8th (whatever) grader should be able to figure out the paper folding on their own but after doing this lesson 9 times I promise folding it for them the first 2 times really helps. <br />
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Have them go trace in the 2 triangles on the flip side. (Four triangles have lettering now)<br />
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At this point most can figure out how to open the paper and fold it so that they are now ready to trace four of the triangles into the last four empty spaces.<br />
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If there is a big space in the middle of the paper have the kids add an interesting radial shape.<br />
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Now the kids can choose up to 5 colors. Sometimes I ask them to go with a color family...other times I let them free range. I like to get as many colors for them to choose from as possible. Do a quick review of how to use markers correctly (coloring in the same directions!)<br />
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Have them work not one triangle at a time, but one letter at a time. If the letter B is blue on mine then ALL 8 letter B's have to be blue. Work radially around the paper and you will have very few coloring issues.<br />
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Round and round they go. If you want these done will give them one to one half days (40-45 min) to receive instruction, plan, fold, trance and sharpie the design. Then I offer about 2 days to color. If they are really taking their time and coloring nicely then it will take a while. I don't allow white space to show unless it is part of a pattern they are creating.<br />
If they are dragging on the coloring past 2 days then I find it helpful to split class into the first half of class for coloring and the second half for working on another concept or lesson. I match this will my color theory unit and I'll post what the aspects of that are in the coming weeks.<br />
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When done the student's are responsible for mounting them on construction paper and attaching a project completion card to the back.Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-29126601334225753922012-10-02T11:25:00.001-07:002012-10-02T18:18:31.130-07:00first lessons 6th grade: radial names<br />
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Hey all, we are three weeks into our school year here in Portland. Already we have had a stomach flu and a head cold sweep through the school (and my house) but we still have been plugging away.<br />
This year I teach four sections of middle school. A 7-8th grade class, a 6th grade class and two 6-7th classes.<br />
Let's start with our 6th graders who come in with a WIDE range of art experience from no art to parents who are professional artists.<br />
We started with the favorite radial hidden names...always a big hit. There are so many tutorials on how to do these that I'm not going to bother<span style="color: blue;">.(UPDATE: there really are not that many or any good tutorials on how to do this with photos that I can easily find so I will make and post one in the next day or two)</span> I will say we radiate our names 8 times and I have the student's really focus on correctly using the markers to add color.<br />
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As these were hanging in the hall something seemed a little different about them this year. I finally realized that following the whole florescent colors trend going on right now that the packs of markers I had bought had five "florescent" colors that are as blinding as highlighters. The kids loved them...I would have pulled them out of the mix if I had realized they were there.<br />
I also think I liked it better last year when I had all the kids mount their names on black paper. Oh well live and learn. Overall I think they did a great job with this first lesson and they were very happy with the results.<br />
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I like how she used brown along with the magenta and orange<br />
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Hard to see...but this young man cut out the open spaces in his letters so it is almost like a paper snowflake...anywhere you see black is where it is cut away...very creative<br />
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Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-54254524313540532912012-07-28T09:53:00.000-07:002012-07-28T11:04:14.099-07:00every cap counts-our bottle cap muralThis spring I got on the bandwagon and had my student's make a bottle cap mural. It was a simultaneously awesome and awful experience. To say I underestimated how much work it would be to make the mural is to put it mildly. However, I am in love with the end results and so are the kids. However, my principal sadly is not...you can skip to the last paragraph to read about that part if you don't want to read the rest :(<br />
This is how we made our mural and some things I wished I had known/thought of beforehand. I put my "take away" points for each step of the mural process in astricks so you can skim the post if you want.<br />
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Creating the base for the mural:<br />
<span style="color: orange;">** 1/2 plywood is very affordable and home depot will make two cuts for free for you**</span><br />
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The base of the mural is a 4x6 foot sheet of plywood cut in half. I projected a simple coloring sheet of Starry Night onto the plywood and had some kids trace it and then go over the lines in sharpie. Then we blocked in the colors we planed to use with some craft paint ( I put dots of paint in each section and then student's who were done early could go work on blocking in the areas) later this made it so much easier for lots of kids to work on the mural and know what went where.<br />
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Collecting the caps:<br />
<span style="color: blue;">**Start collecting caps early!**</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">**Go to local coffee shops and ask them to save milk jug lids for you**</span><br />
By far the hardest part of this project for us was getting the caps into the classroom. Maybe it is because I work with middle school kids, maybe I didn't advertise the project well enough...all I know is the caps did not come pouring in as I had hopped. Eventually I put a collection bucket in the main office, in the lunch room and in my classroom. I also put announcements in the student morning bulletin and in the parent newsletter. Putting a note in the parent newsletter helped some but not as much as I was expecting. Eventually I got caps 3 ways. 1 for every 5 caps a kid brought to me they got a Swedish gummy fish or sour patch kid. Yes this is food bribery but it worked. 2 several teachers offered extra credit points for caps...every 3 caps equaled 1 point. After midterm grades went home the caps came pouring in.<br />
3. I went to the 3 Starbucks in the neighborhood with large empty cans from the cafeteria and talked the managers into collecting caps from the milk jugs for a week each. I'm hoping one of the Starbucks will let me put up he mural for a few weeks come fall.<br />
AFTER this project was done a student brought me two paper grocery sacks full of caps and the caps just kept coming once families got used to collecting them. So I think a major lesson here is to start collecting the caps a few months before you plan on doing the mural.<br />
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Sorting the caps:<br />
<span style="color: purple;">** Soak batches of the caps you receive in dish-washing soap or a little bleach water or something so your mural doesn't start to smell of sour milk and other food**</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">**Have the kids sort out the colors into sub categories...not just "blue" but the different shades of blue**</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">***look at both sides of the caps for various color options and to create tints and shades***</span><br />
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Attaching the caps:<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">**pre-lay out the caps where you want them before letting the kids have at it with the glue gun OR have a few student supervisors**</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">**You are going to use a LOT of glue sticks***</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">We went the hot glue gun route and I am waiting to see how many caps have fallen off when we get back to school in a few weeks to decided if they need to be screwed into the board or not. It is possible that I will write a post in three weeks about how I walked into the classroom and the entire thing fell apart and how upset I am. </span><br />
Anyway placement of the caps was a big challenge for us. Putting everything together was a lot like putting a puzzle together. I strongly suggest doing any curved or circle or small detail areas first and then systematically filling in from either top down or left to right or something that helps you get a nice fit for all the caps. Having the base color in paint really helped hid areas where we had gaps in the caps.<br />
I really had to keep an eye on where the kids would glue the caps. They would get excited and start gluing in areas that I had not laid out the caps for first. Eventually I trained a few kids to be "supervisors" and one of them had to be present to oversee the gluing of the caps if I was not available. This was a great job for those chronic early finishers. A few kids started layering smaller caps inside of larger caps and I think it added a really neat look to the mural.<br />
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Hanging the mural:<br />
<span style="color: #990000;">**make sure you have a dedicated place to hang the mural**</span><br />
I have yet to hang the mural. When it was all done I was thrilled with the results, so where all the staff members who saw it and so were the kids AND the 30 families that stopped by to see it at spring portfolio night, that is the most parents to ever take interest in my program. Want to know the ONE person not excited about the end results? My principal! Yes my principal who was on board for the entire project till the very when when she looked at it and decided she didn't know what "message" it would send to hang it in the hall because it looks a little (and I'm quoting her) "junky." I am dumbfounded. I think it looks great and sends a message that the school supports art and recycling and creativity and collaborative activities.<br />
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Ok junkie is not what comes to mind when I see that. I really hope she changes her mind come fall and let's me put it up in the halls. I was really hoping to put it in the library or near the office where lots of student's can see the mural. But for now I only have permission to have it hung up in my room. Even the custodian thinks it's a shame that it has to live in my room. My hope is to find a store or coffee shop in our neighborhood that wants to display it for a few weeks and help show the principal that people will think it is awesome...not junkie.<br />
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So will we do it again? Yes we will. We still have a lot of caps left over from this one and I'm feeling more confident about the process. I think I want to make 2 a school year till we have a whole Gallery! For the next one I am thinking something by Matisse. Even if I have to store them all in my room till this principal retires I think the community art experience is worth it.<br />
<br /></div>Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-30588389470401579192012-07-21T10:10:00.002-07:002012-07-21T10:10:18.945-07:00Hidden names paintingThe sample for this lesson was left behind in my current classroom by a past teacher...I remember doing something similar in middle school so we can call it a classic and we know classics tend to produce constantly good results. These are done by 6th grade students. I think 3, 4, 5th could also do it.<br />
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So pretty straightforward...would make a good back to school lesson. I work with middle school students so they had "choices" along the way. First they needed to choose if they were doing their first name only or first and last. If their name had less than 5 letters they were required to use their name twice. Next they were asked to choose one shape. The shape will be repeated 5, 7 or 9 times.<br />
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I had the kids start by turning their paper at an angle and writing their name in block or bubble letters as large as they could. At least one letter needed to go off the page. All the letters were to overlap in some place. After the kids had a good rough draft ( and at least half had to start again making their letters even bigger) then they added in their shapes and last name if they were doing that. The last names were done small as seen in the example above. Everything was transferred to white card stock paper.</div>
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Shapes could overlap, touch or "float" or go off the page. Next students could choose 3-5 colors for their letters. Everyone had to have a black background. I have tried other background colors and they just don't look as good. Sorry. So then you know the deal...each time you hit a line you need to switch colors. Shapes that touch on a diagonal can be the same color but neighbor shapes can not. I have had as young as 2nd grade successfully grasp that concept.<br />
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Sometimes less is more, this three color combo is really striking. She is a repeat student and choose to do analogous colors. Once the letters are painted in then let everything dry really well and then go back and do the black background. There can be some small shapes and spaces with these so I suggest some brush practice first. Great for working brush control. Last I made the kids outline everything in black sharpie, choose a background paper that matched one of the colors we used and had them go staple them up in the hall.<br />
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I should have made this student make some of her letters bigger....oh well. The past art teacher had the kids do these on canvas board with acrylic (oh the days when we were not in a recession). We had a 100% success rate on this lesson with students who ranged from no art at all to having taken art all year long.<br />
The make a great looking display for back to school night or spring conferences.<br />
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Proof that fifth try is the charm :) This is my fifth time having students do a Lichtenstein inspired pop art painting featuring either shoes or food and these were by far the best results for the largest percentage of students yet. This year I allowed students to choose either a food or a shoe for their focal image. I have taken to allowing students who have trouble drawing LARGE to draw as big as they can and then enlarge on the photocopier. Students have to use two patterns in the background stripes and or dots or a repeating shape taken from their focal image. I had students test out color schemes before painting and everybody had to outline in black. The kids were quite happy with their work and so was I. <br />
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In the last post we had set up the spokes or spines for the basket and were ready to start weaving. I have the kids take a stretch of reed that is about two wing spans long for the weaving part. Make sure you keep your reed soaking in a bucket of water either at each table for the kids to grab as they need or in a central location. You have to keep the reed wet or it cracks. I have them pull a tail and tape it down to the inside of the basket to start. Then we start going round and round over under over under. </div>
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ok now we have reached the end of our long reed and we need to tuck the end. Have the kids leave about an inch hanging out and then have them either run the basket under the sink facet or dip it into a bucket of water for a few seconds. Now we are going to fold and tuck the end of the reed.</div>
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If you can tuck the end UNDER you will get a cleaner looking basket. Now is where a lot of kids get mixed up. As they put the next reed into the basket make sure they keep following the Under over pattern and really pay attention. </div>
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Round and round we go. I encourage the kids to keep getting the baskets wet to make everything easier to work with and less likely to crack. At any point you can put pony beads on the spokes or spines to add a little unique touch. You can also dye the reed in Rit dye to get different colors.<br />
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Up and up we go till you have three or four inches left on the spokes/spines<br />
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Then set your basket upside down in water (I like to have a bucket of water on each table for the kids to use)<br />
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Time to finish the basket. Take each spoke and bend it over the spoke immediately to the left or right and tuck the end under the last row of weaving you did. We are making little rainbow arches.<br />
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Before you click away thinking this sounds too crafty, stick with me, I think your student's can gain a lot from basket weaving. Be warned this is photo heavy and I had a hard time with formatting. Because there are so many photos I am going to break this up into two posts. Part one setting up the base and "spokes" and part two the weaving and fun extras.<br />
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When I started in my current district I was bequeathed rolls and rolls of basket weaving reed and no bases. I had never woven a basket, and really I was not planning on teaching basket weaving. I felt basket weaving was the ultimate art class cliche... underwater basket weaving and such. <br />
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Then I learned one of my 7th grade student's was 100% blind and would NOT have an aid coming to art with him. Learning how to teach art to this young man, J, is a series of posts in itself. My goal that year was to make at least 50% of the lessons I assigned to the whole class also accessible to J. So my weaving unit was born and I decided that not only would I learn how to basket weave so that J could, but the whole class would learn.<br />
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Turns out I enjoyed basket weaving (and yes, J was quite adept at it), but also the rest of my middle school students enjoyed the process and grew as artists because of it. Yes as ARTISTS. I have learned that parts of basket weaving are messy and challenging. It is an skill that requires persistence, trial and error and patience. This is a lesson where, at some point, most of my student's want to give up but I insist they push forward and 90% of the time they ended up incredibly proud of themselves and their product.<br />
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I love going through the basket weaving process with my student's because it helps work on their patience and persistence with a tangible end result that makes parents, teachers and other students exclaim, "Wow you made that!?"<br />
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This year I went to a new school in the same district and low and behold stored away was a TON of basket weaving reed. This is a mini one session (maybe two if your classes are shorter) starter version of basket weaving. All you need is a one or two rolls of round reed. You can order it from <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/natural-reed-for-basketmaking/">blick for pretty darn cheep</a>, I think one roll of the 1/16th inch would easily cover a class of 25. I suggest getting thinner reed as it is easier to use. I have my student's make these mini baskets before they weave larger baskets.<br />
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<br /></div>Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497814921450541701.post-54460905506756495422012-05-20T11:42:00.002-07:002015-03-14T14:30:27.847-07:00Kandinsky watercolor - round twoThis is my second year trying to do Kandinsky inspired watercolors. Last year for this lesson <a href="http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-and-composition.html">http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-and-composition.html</a> we focused on using organic shapes and geometric shapes and the concept of composition. While I liked some of them they were not very expressive and really not as Kandinsky as I wanted. This year I tried to focus more on using line and color to express moods and feelings. We started really well but by the end we had very mixed results again.<br />
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To start I had students paint onomatopoeia lines with india ink. I gave them a word like Zing, or splat, or shushhh and they had to paint what that line would look like. Then we listened to different types of music and painted lines inspired by each style of music. The next class we repeated the process but with colors...what color is swish and zip, what colors did each style of music inspire?<br />
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So I loved the movement and expressiveness of what the kids were coming up with during practice time and decided to break out the watercolor paper for this lesson (something I have a very limited amount of).<br />
For their final assignment I asked them to use at least three expressive lines, three organic shapes, three geometric shapes and to repeat one of those shapes at least three times, to have overlap and to have something going off the page. I had them plan their design on printer paper and then use india ink and watercolor paint.<br />
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The end results were mixed. For many students the movement, and expressive nature...the freedom of the practice versions got lost in the final draft. Many student's struggled to fill the space and how to use color. Others did not have enough repeating elements to create true unity. Some kids really liked the lesson and others pushed through just to be done. I feel like I was closer to what I want to see come out of this lesson this time but still not there. I felt a lot of pressure, and honestly a bit of disappointment in some of the results because I had used up so much of my precious watercolor paper.<br />
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this one is a good representation of the majority of lessons I received. I know this student followed my directions but yet the end result is lacking. When this many student's struggle I know it is a issue on my end with how I design and or teach the lesson.<br />
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Yet for other students, mostly the ones I choose to show, this lesson really clicked for them.<br />
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For round three next year I think we will make these changes:<br />
*Use smaller paper...I cut smaller pieces of paper for the second class and the kids were able to handle the space better in that class.<br />
*Use cardstock and not watercolor paper (less pressure on the kids and me)<br />
*Put more emphasis on repeating three elements, a expressive line that is repeated 5 + times, and then two shapes that get repeated at least more than three times.<br />
*Do more pre-practice on how to create a composition with unity and balance<br />
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What I still need help with:<br />
*how to help the student's better handle using color in the lesson...should they use a color family or have a free range of colors like they did this time<br />
*how to re-capture the freedom and movement from the practice work on the expressive lines...should I have them make five expressive line paintings (just the line) then choose their favorite to then add to to make the final work<br />
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* any other ideas on how we can improve the lesson?Mrs. Art Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871081850970695684noreply@blogger.com6