*NEW artwork added 3/24/20* Scroll to the end to view! MIXED MEDIA BRIDGES INSPIRED BY CLAUDE MONET! Students learned about the artist Claude Monet and watched a video on his life and artwor…

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Keith Haring is an American artist born on May 4, 1958. Haring loved to draw and make art and sometimes he made cartoons with many different characters and stories. Haring loved to visit art museums and see modern art in places like Washington D.C. After high school, he studied graphic design but later realized he wanted to make art in a new way. Street Dancers by Keith Haring In 1978, Haring moved to New York City. There were several young artists making art in the neighbourhoods and there was a lot of energy on the street. Haring became friends with graffiti artists and musicians and he began to organize and participate in exhibitions and performances. Haring was strongly committed to drawing. When he noticed unused advertising panels in the subways, he knew it was the perfect place for him to draw. He started making subway drawings every day. In the subway, Haring experimented with simple lines and people of all ages liked to watch him make hundreds of drawings. Haring started to become famous and appeared on TV and in the newspaper. Keith Haring drawing in subway Haring also started showing his work in art galleries where many people started to buy them. Haring's work became popular and he traveled around the world to places like Europe and Japan. He even painted the side of a church in Italy. Church of Sant'Antonio in Pisa, Italy His paintings and sculptures became very expensive and he wanted everyone to be able to buy his work. He decided to open a POP shop to sell his artwork on posters, buttons, T-shirts and games. Haring also worked with children in schools. Together they painted large murals and he made paintings and sculptures for schools and hospitals in many places. Haring became sick and died in 1988. Haring's artwork is still popular today and can be found in museums, books, posters, TV and the internet. Haring wanted everyone to make art, especially children. References: http://www.haringkids.com/master_k_quest.htm Interactive Activities: Haring Kids Colouring Book Games Lesson Plans: "Big" childrens book by Keith Haring Haring Kids Lesson Plans

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7 Critiques You Can Use in Your Classroom Today! % %

Too often students are not taught how to look at art, know its purpose, see the elements and principles, and how to talk about art. Getting the students especially in the elementary school classroom to do this is like pulling teeth. But why not make it fun? My students are learning how to do these things through an art critique. Yes, I know they are only in elementary school, but it is never too early to understand why something looks nice. Each student is given 3 critique cards. These are used like casting votes for pieces. - Frame: The piece they would put in a museum. - House: The piece they would put in their house. - Money: The piece they would sell. To see slideshow and full details go to : Critique slideshow. Once votes have been cast, a class discussion is started. The kids have so much fun with this. It is different from the normal art class they are used to. Check out my lesson (**link to come) and slideshow for full details. I modified this idea from something a professor in college taught me. Honestly, at the time I thought it was a dumb idea, but after talking with the kids and spending more time with them, I am realizing how genius it really is. Tell me what you think! Would you change anything?

My students will be reading the poem The Little Land by Robert Louis Stevenson. First they will read and interpret the poem without illustrations and tell me what they think it means. Then they will look at the illustrations below as we read the poem as a class and, drawing from their own experiences, either from books or movies, tell me if their ideas on the meaning of the poem have changed. We will discuss movies they are familiar with, such as 'A Bug's Life' and 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids'. We will then discuss how illustrations help the reader to visualize the meaning of a poem. Using the reference materials provided by the teacher, students will then envision themselves as being very small. They will create an illustration of what the world would look like from an insect's point of view. English Language Arts Standards,Reading: Literature http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/5/ Colored Pencil drawing by Rachel Wintemberg, The Helpful Art Teacher When at home alone I sit And am very tired of it, I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies-- Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith To go sailing far away To the pleasant Land of Play; To the fairy land afar Where the Little People are; Where the clover-tops are trees, And the rain-pools are the seas, And the leaves, like little ships, Sail about on tiny trips; And above the Daisy tree Through the grasses, High o'erhead the Bumble Bee Hums and passes. In that forest to and fro I can wander, I can go; See the spider and the fly, And the ants go marching by, Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg Carrying parcels with their feet Down the green and grassy street. Illustration by Gertrude Elliot I can in the sorrel sit Where the ladybird alit. I can climb the jointed grass And on high See the greater swallows pass In the sky, Drawing by Rachel Wintemberg,The Helpful Art Teacher And the round sun rolling by Heeding no such things as I. Through that forest I can pass Till, as in a looking-glass, Humming fly and daisy tree And my tiny self I see, Painted very clear and neat On the rain-pool at my feet. Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg, The Helpful Art Teacher Should a leaflet come to land Drifting near to where I stand, Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg Straight I'll board that tiny boat Round the rain-pool sea to float. Illustration by Julie C. Pratt Little thoughtful creatures sit On the grassy coasts of it; Little things with lovely eyes See me sailing with surprise. Some are clad in armour green-- (These have sure to battle been!)-- Some are pied with ev'ry hue, Black and crimson, gold and blue; Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg Some have wings and swift are gone;-- But they all look kindly on. Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg, The Helpful Art Teacher Watercolor by Rachel Wintemberg, The Helpful Art Teacher When my eyes I once again Open, and see all things plain: High bare walls, great bare floor; Great big knobs on drawer and door; Great big people perched on chairs, Stitching tucks and mending tears, Each a hill that I could climb, And talking nonsense all the time-- Illustration by Arthur Rackham O dear me, That I could be A sailor on a the rain-pool sea, A climber in the clover tree, And just come back a sleepy-head, Late at night to go to bed. Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith How can asking students to illustrate a poem help them to become not only better artists but better writers? Studying writing that evokes clear visual imagery and invites readers to explore the imagination, like the Robert Louis Stevenson poem above, is key to helping students become both better artists and better writers. Resources: The art/writing connection How to Be a Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker http://time.com/3584611/write-better-tips-from-harvard/ Quotes from the Time Magazine article linked above: "Our brain works a particular way; so what rules do we need to know to write the way the brain best understands? Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist and linguist at Harvard. He’s also on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Steven was recently ranked as one of the top 100 most eminent psychologists of the modern era." His number one piece of advice: "Be Visual: One third of the human brain is dedicated to vision. So trying to make the reader “see” is a good goal and being concrete has huge effects." Via The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century: "We are primates, with a third of our brains dedicated to vision, and large swaths devoted to touch, hearing, motion, and space. For us to go from “I think I understand ” to “I understand ,” we need to see the sights and feel the motions. Many experiments have shown that readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images…" A key element to 'close reading' is inviting students to explore the visual imagery that a well written poem evokes in their minds. One way to explore this visual imagery is to draw it. At the University of Pennsylvania, freshman students are taught how to do 'close readings' of classic pieces of literature. Here is one piece of advice they are given their freshman year: "METAPHORS and IMAGES: Make a mental list of the images that pile up in passage. How do these metaphors or images affect how you read?" http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Teaching/101/closereading.html The Helpful Art Teacher says; why not create that 'mental list' by illustrating a passage with a beautiful drawing? Students can demonstrate how closely they have read by including as much detail as possible. Related open ended question: What would you look like from a bug's point of view? If you were very small what would ordinary people look like? Using a camera, cell phone or tablet, get down on the ground and take some photographs of the world from a miniature person's perspective. How does the world look different when you look at it from another perspective? What are some other perspectives or points of view that you can use to explore the world? What about a bird's eye view? To learn more about 'Bird's eye view vs. bug's eye view', click here. Art Gallery: Watercolor Painting by a 7th Grade Student Art Gallery: Drawings by 8th grade students The 8th grader used the IPad app PS Touch and one of my photographs to add a background to her colored pencil drawing 7th Grade Drawings Some students used the iPad App, PS Touch to digitally add color Colored Pencil Drawings by 6th Grade Students The Littles: complete animated series: The Borrowers Movie:

Je découvre cette oeuvre de Keith Haring avec admiration, mais j'admire encore plus le parti qu'a su en tirer Marie en classe avec ses élèves. ".... Le deuxième (travail) a été réalisé cette année pour une exposition sur les ponts. En manque d'idée,...

An Inspired and Simple Printmaking Lesson for All Levels Media & Techniques % %

Students learned about PA artist Keith Haring. Keith Haring began as a graffiti artist in the subway stations of NYC. He created colorful figures in motion! Students chose a pose and began the sketch on their paper. To make our figures bold we used fluorescent paint! We began by painting the inside of the figure. Students practiced holding and using the paint brush the best way to ensure a neat painting. After students painted in the figure, they outlined their figure with black paint and added some action lines. For more info on Keith Haring please visit http://www.haring.com/about_haring/bio/index.html or for interactive fun visit http://www.haringkids.com/

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Heute freuen wir uns: über einen Gastbeitrag von Michaela @muellerin_art Sonnendruck auf Papier zeige ich heute als Gast hier im artlaboratorium. Im Gegensatz zur Cyanotypie, die mit lichtempfindlichen Chemikalien arbeitet und immer blau ist, kann ich Sonnendrucke in allen Farben herstellen. Ich brauche dazu nur Wasser, Wärme (gar nicht unbedingt Sonne), hochpigmentierte flüssige Farbe, saugfähiges […]

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Click for larger image 'Argh, you're all amateurs in a professional universe!' roared Allen Ginsberg to a young class of aspiring poets in 1977 at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Their offense? Most of the students had failed to register for meditation instruction.

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I was recently in a third grade classroom and was struck by the presence of rules that were posted for how to have a conversation. Having visited many middle and high schools, I think these same rules could -- and probably should -- be posted there as well.

This is a digital download of a weekly bell ringer worksheet. You can write a question on the board at the beginning of the class and have students answer it in the appropriate box. You can then collect and grade it on Fridays. I use it in all of my classes (high school) as a great way to start the class.

your done! make head and legs fold un cut pieces together and glue fold in half cut up to folded line teacher made. very important to cut to the fold or lizard will not bend nicely! add patterens! Teacher comes around and folds in sides while students color cut on line while paper is folded, large triangle is body, small ones are saved for heads and legs next art class Fold paper, draw a slanted line from one corner to the next start with large paper folded in half