These engaging strategies to incorporate movement in the classroom are perfect for the fidgety students & kinesthetic learners in your class!
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23 End of Year Art Class activities to allow students to reflect on the year, plan for the summer or their break, to set goals for next year's art class, to complete drawing prompts, to create a zen doodle,, to get to know their peers better, to draw and be creative (selfies! social media artists!), and to write a letter to give advice to future art students. This is a great way to summarize the year for middle school and high school students in an art classroom and have them thinking about the next year to come and to keep them busy in those last weeks. This product is suitable for students from grades 6 to 10. Want some END OF YEAR - ZEN DOODLE COLORING SHEETS to keep your students busy? Click here! How to use: -Print off the whole thing and staple as a journal (this product includes a coloring title page for this option) or print on individual pages as you need them -Give to students to fill out -Some pages you may want to keep and give to their next year’s teachers (such as student profile pages, letter to my future teacher) to allow them insight into their future student over the summer/during back to school. -Let students take home their work to keep as memories from the year! This Product Includes: 25 Student Pages -Title Page (color it!) -My Favorite Memories from this year in Art Class -Draw Your Favorites (draw your favorite four memories) -End of Year Zen Doodle -How Well Do You Know.. (your classmates as artists) -This Year: Story Strip -Magazine Design: Create a cover for the magazine, “Artastic” and make the focus be on the advantages and benefits of having an art class in school. -School’s Out Wish List -Drawing Prompt #1: Emotions on Last Day of School -Top 6 List (for Art Class) -#FavoriteArtPiece -Draw and Reflect -Finish the Picture - Creativity Challenge -Next Year’s Art Class: Goal Setting -Drawing Prompt #2: Illustrate a summer break activity -Comic: My Art Epiphany -Artist Snap Shot (Snap shot of self as an artist) -Draw your Favorite Mediums and Materials -Drawing Prompt #3: Illustrate yourself as an artist -Instagram: Art I’ve seen on Social Media -Reflective Questions -End of Year Artist Selfie -End of Year Art Piece (Create a composition on the page given) -Letter of Advice to Next Year’s Art Students -Class Yearbook Pages (2 pages) ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ ***************************************************************************** Images and Lessons are Copyright Products YOU MAY: For clip art, you may use them as clip art, website graphics, binder covers, or even bulletin board decorations. Use this in creative ways! Explore and have as much fun with it as you would like By additional licensing for school use. YOU MAY NOT: Share this product with other teachers, administration or districts. Admin can buy additional licensing. Sell this product or give it out for free or photocopy it for others. For more ARTASTIC Products and to follow my store, Visit http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ms-Artastic Sincerely, Ms. Artastic Instagram: https://instagram.com/msartastic Facebook: www.facebook.com/msartastic Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/msartastic
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Ton Schulten is one of my all time favorite artists! I discovered him years ago when I found a calendar full of his paintings when visiting the Toledo Museum of Art. I was hooked! I love his amazing colors and abstract style. I created a Prezi of his landscape and cityscapes to share with my classes, (Ton Schulten Prezi). I find it very interesting how he adds lots of vertical lines to his landscapes, a composition usually created with more horizontal lines. This lesson was a COLOR VALUE lesson. Students used pre-mixed colors and various TINTS to paint in city buildings. The students mixed their own tints of blue for the sky portion. The last step, we used India Ink to outline and decorate our city buildings. This was a great lesson for every student. It was hard to chose which ones to photography! They will look great later in a group hanging in our hallways!
Made by a student of grade 2 Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) was an Austrian artist and architect who is best known for the colourful buildings he designed, built with attention to the environment and nature. The buildings of Hundertwasser are very recognizable: straight lines are missing, there is use of bright colours and many of his buildings have typical turrets. The influence of architect Gaudi is very obvious. The paintings of Hundertwasser have exuberant colours too and mainly undulating lines. Show buildings of Hundertwasser on the digital board. Discuss the salient features: bright colours, undulating lines. Then show some paintings and discuss the things that stand out: • the use of small areas outlined with black • no straight lines, usually parallel lines • recurring spiral shapes • bright colours Ask students what they think of by seeing those spirals. Probably they see real lollipops in them! Lollipop trees, that's what we're going to draw today! Demonstrate the drawing of a spiral, starting in the middle. You need: white drawing sheet 35 by 35 cm black construction sheet white drawing paper 35 by 35 cm black construction paper pieces of sponge tempera paint gold and silver markers, wide and small round shapes to trace scissors and glue black oil pastel Stamp the white sheet with sponge prints in colours you like and put the work out to dry. Trace on black paper round shapes in different sizes. Draw spirals in them with gold or silver markers. Fill the space between the lines with patterns in gold or silver and cut the circles. Create a composition of lollipops on the stamped sheet and paste them. Pull lines from the lollipops to the bottom of the sheet with black oil pastel, the trunks. Draw the trunks through the circles if necessary (overlap), to show depth in the lollipop woods. Thanks to Maureen Kaal.
Check out what the students in Mrs. VandenBush's classroom are doing in art! Some of th lesson ideas I come up with, but many of these ideas come from other wonderful art teachers!
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Of all the many marble runs we’ve built over the years, this is our new favorite! Simple materials and sturdy construction make it a WIN for a wide variety of ages. This would be great for a classroom STEM challenge. It all started the other day when we needed a break from homeschooling. It has […]
Just filled in a colour schemes chart tonight for my new Year 11's tomorrow. Those of you who are experienced artists probably know all about these anyway, but there may be some who dont, so I'm popping a copy on my blog just for you! Its amazing what colours will actually go together! You need a tertiary colour wheel to do this with, so if you dont know how to do one of those let me know and I can pop one of those on, plus let you know how they are constructed. A good idea is to have the same colour at the top of the 'clock' on the left, then later you can do other sets of colour schemes for other colours. Fill in the blank bar with the colours in the scheme in a design you create. Simply abstract is the way to go, as its just a reference chart. If you have lighter shades of colour they can be used too. The "Art Every Day Challenge Month" has finished. Although it was a challenge to get something online every day, it was so worth it to see the artwork of others. I really enjoyed it and thanks to all for putting their artwork online, and special thanks to Leah on Creative Every Day for organising it. I plan to keep putting art online , tho not specifically daily. I learnt so much from others art work, it is a real blessing, I hope my work might help others in some way too.
I thought of a way to create a three-dimensional structure with the characteristic drawings by Joan Miro, which are specifically two-dimensional. Students have copied some drawings by Miró with a b…
What is CUBISM? THE ART MOVEMENT Early 20th Century Paris, France Who stARTed CUBISM? Pablo Picasso and George Braque Pablo Picasso Cubism Portrait Georges Braque Cubism Portrait To capture the idea of Cubism, try to understand that it is seeing one object from multiple perspectives at one time. Imagine me taking a picture of a student from the front, back, and side. Then I take the tangible pictures of them and cut them up into pieces. I rearrange them in a different order, then draw the new arrangement. There may be 3 eyes, 2 noses, and features from different angles... but that is the point! My definition. Creating like you are seeing something as if it was in a shattered mirror. Things are shifted, titled, and out of order. Notes from my Journal: MANY ARTIST HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY CUBISM KatoCreative.com Brenda Kato She used to teach High School and Elementary Art like me, but is now a successful freelance artist, children's book illustrator and more. I may like her portraits more than Picassos! Cubism Portraits TEACHER EXAMPLES CUBISM PORTRAIT COLLAGE This is a cubism self portrait collage. I drew my eyes, nose, lips, and things I use often scattered on paper. I drew some on other pieces of paper too & pieces it together, CUBISM PORTRAIT DRAWING 1. On 12 by 18 white paper, divide the area into a variety of sections using a pencil. Have 10-15 areas somewhat evenly drawn out. 2. In each section, draw at least 2 eyes (each from different angle), 1 nose, 1 mouth, and an ear. They can also include parts of hair, neck, chin, cheeks, accessories, but do not need to include body parts below the neck. 3. Emphasize the pencil lines with either a sharpie, other markers, or use a harder line of whatever they are coloring with. This is keep the details they worked so hard on from disappearing after the coloring process. 4. After emphasizing, color using a theme (blue period, rose period, neutral tones, or abstract colors). The above examples of mine is sort of a cubist self-portrait drawing using crazy abstract colors. I tried to keep things in the relative area they are naturally in. This example of mine is using more neutral tones and it is harder to see who the person is in the portrait. This is because the features are more various and jumbled around in the composition. ARE YOU READY? Before you begin, practice each facial feature seperately. GO HERE FOR HELP https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2023/10/drawing-face.html THE HANDOUT Plan it Out… Here are some STUDENT EXAMPLES High School Beginning Classes Jaidyn Short, 9th grade Jaycee Maag 9th grade Jannette M. 9th grade Daisy M 9th grade Krissie Barker 10th grade Eduardo 10th grade Estrella 10th grade. Kenzie W. 10th grade Jasmine and Kendra Hollins Sawyer 10th grade. Grayson-9th grade Natalie- 9th grade. Maisy 11th grade Kelly H 9th grade Elian 10th grade Josie Hornsby 10th grade. Victoria O. 10th grade Trestin 9th grade 6th grade art Angel Suarez Haley Ackerman Dacy Moss Josh Matthew Taylor Casey Stubblefield
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Here are my new updated elements & principles of design sheets. I've added a few terms from the ministry documents that were missing on the original and I changed the icon. A full Elements and Principles of Design Unit plan (complete with lesson plans) is available on my Teachers Pay Teachers site, here. The letter-size worksheets by themselves (without the lesson plans) are available on my Teachers Pay Teachers site, here. I also have high-quality prints of these charts available for purchase here: The Elements of Design The Principles of Design - Patrick
Los puntos determinan una linea. Las lineas determinan un plano. Los planos determinan un volumen. Para construir un volumen podemos pensar en términos de sus secciones transversales, es decir, en como la forma puede ser cortada en rodajas, a intervalos regulares, de lo que derivan los planos seriado. Cada plano seriado es un modulo, que puede usarse en repetición o en gradación. La gradación y repetición puede usarse de 3 maneras: *Gradación de tamaño y repetición de la figura. *Gradación de figura y repetición de tamaño *Gradación de la figura y el tamaño. Elementos a considerar en la composición. Posición de los módulos puede variar en cuanto a: Espacio entre los planos. Posición de los planos. Alineamiento vertical. Variación de la dirección, puede ser variada de tres maneras: Rotación sobre un eje vertical. Rotación sobre un eje Horizontal. Rotación sobre el mismo plano. Ejemplos de construcciones Con un plano recto en el centro de la estructura, todos los otros se tuercen en ángulos cada vez mas agudos. La forma volumetrica sugerida es la de una esfera. Estructura triangular derivada de la gradación de planos consecutivos, tanto en figura como en tamaño. Los planos cortos con forma de V de los lados, se hacen altos y estrechos hacia en centro. Estructura de planos circulares de igual tamaño y figura. Las dos vueltas que componen la figura global, similar al numero 8, derivan de una variación de posición. El uso de uan gradacion de figura es aquí bastante obvio y da una sensación de planos que surgen desde la base o que se hunden en ella. Los planos consecutivos aumentan gradualmente en altura desde en frente hacia el fondo. La sensación volumetrica es ligera debido al distanciamiento entre planos. Aqui cada plano ha sido obtenido por la combinación de una figura rectangular positiva y de una figura circular negativa. La primera tiene un ancho constante, pero la segunda se hace cada vez mas grande y se desplaza hacia abajo y hacia adelante. *Grdaciones de tamaño y figura de sus modulos. *Variaciones de posicion -Espacio entre planos -Posicion de los planos *Variaciones de direccion -Rotacion sobre un eje -Rotacion sobre el mismo plano Planos Seriados en Arquitectura:
For my last after school Modern Art class I wanted my students to explore the work of Andy Warhol. Last time we studied Warhol, we did the Handy Andy prints (which are a popular one on my blog and with my students). This time, I wanted to have them try printmaking so they could explore the Pop Art repetitive printed images of Warhol's. With this project we are using foam trays to make a printmaking plate similar to a linocut or woodcut, but without the sharp tools. This student loves to create Manga-inspired art. I love this piece because it shows her interests and is definitely a POP art piece--Warhol would be impressed! This was a great first "real" printmaking project and the results are always so bright and fun. Some children really embrace this technique and I had one student complete TWO projects with the class time since she was having some much fun. I also did the project one-on-one with my Kindergardener and he loved it too. Clean-up is great since I used water-soluble printmaking ink (although I would love to try something in the future that is more permanent so that the kids could add color with watercolors afterwards...). This might be a bit of an expense to buy the roller (brayer) if you are doing this project at home, but once you have the supplies on had you ca make a bunch of great prints for gifts, stationary, etc. Give it a try! Faux Linocut Warhol Self Portraits Supplies Needed: Adjust the dimensions of your supplies based on the size of the foam trays you are using... A few 4" x 5 1/2" pieces of white paper for drawing your design Pencils and erasers Foam trays or styrofoam plates Masking tape Hot glue gun and glue sticks A scrap piece of cardboard or mat board slightly larger than your foam printing "plate" Water soluble printmaking ink Brayer (I use the Speedball 4" soft rubber brayer) A few 5" x 7" pieces of colored paper (smooth paper with bright colors work well) Glue stick Large piece of construction paper to mount the finished prints on Directions: 1. Use the pencil to draw a simple self portrait on the white piece of paper. Make it unique--just like you, but don't get too detailed. 2. Place the drawing onto the foam tray and tape down. Trace the lines of your drawing with a dull pencil. Press down enough to leave an impression in the foam tray, but not hard enough to poke all the way through the foam or shred the paper drawing. This takes some practice...using the pencil at a slight angle helps. Once you've traced the drawing, remove the drawing and go over the lines you made in the foam tray to make them a bit deeper. 3. Mount your finished foam printing plate to the cardboard using hot glue. 4. Squeeze some printmaking ink onto a spare foam plate or foam tray. Use your brayer (roller) to move the ink around, coating the roller with ink. You don't need it gooping with ink--a nice even coating works best. Roll the inked brayer over your foam printing plate. Lay a piece of colored paper o top of the inked printing plate and press gently with your fingertips. I had the children use one hand to hold the paper still while the other rubbed the image. Remove the paper to see the transferred image. 5. Repeat as may times as you wish. I had the children make at least four copies of the image ad the they mounted them onto a larger piece of construction paper once the prints were dry. Enjoy! This guy is super-cute, too! Love the freckles! And this piece is super-sweet! It makes me smile!
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