This art teacher mama has been waiting for a long time for my 3 year old to make a representational drawing. And while we were in Sri La...
Halloween Pastel Project: This is a Halloween Project we did in Art Class to prepare for Halloween. Materials: White Construction Paper Any 2 watercolors (Not Black or yellow) Paint Brush Water Yellow Pastel Black Pastel Pencil IMAGINATION
This rainbow ladder visual motor activity is perfect for rainbow themes in occupational therapy interventions with kids.
Lynne Byler from Woodcrest Chapel in Columbia, MO brings us this cool wall of hanging rectangles. (Originally posted November 2014) Supplies: Foam Poster Boards 20×30 (purchased at Dollar Tree) Fishing line with higher test Fishing Weights Hot Glue Gun Box Knife Metal Ruler Sewing Needle Yard Stick They cut foam poster boards into 5×10 rectangles using a box knife […]
Painting 1 students studied the elements and principles of art and began a new “secret” watercolor project, more on that later. Right now we are working on design ideas using a matrix. …
The sun will come out! Do you need to reintroduce a warm and cool concept in a colorful way? Here is a fun lesson that incorporates line and color. My students really enjoy creating these ad…
Now that you are familiar with visual thinking metaphors and analogies, today, I would like to provide you with a practical example of a visual thinking metaphor that is often used for life coaching purposes to help clients clarify their goals and objectives. In fact, it is one of the many visual thinking metaphors we will be discussing in the coming months.
Highlighted Class COMPOSITION AND STAGING FOR VISUAL DEVELOPMENT This class was designed and is taught by my father Robert Watts. He designed the class to emphasize the brick and mortar concepts of picture making so often lacking or not really taught at all in today’s schools and institutions of art. Although tailored to students looking to go into visual development this class would be equally beneficial to the illustrator or fine artist. As a matter of fact I felt so strongly about the class and its material that I came in to take it. I try to sit in on at least one class a term on top of my teaching responsibilities and professional deadlines. I find it absolutely pivotal to continue ones training indefinitely. I have included some of the work I did for the assignments given in the class as well as some of my father’s demos. He would commonly spend a good portion of the class going over unique ways to approach perspective, invention and storytelling. The assignments ranged from designing the environment for a Dragon’s Lair, Pirates approaching a sunken Galleon to The Great Wall of China being built to Hunters being approached by a Yeti. They are great exercises for developing and cultivating your visual memorization ability which in my opinion is essential for successful picture making in any genre! THE CLASS DESCRIPTION: The class will present a process and workflow for the invention and depiction of key scenes, environments, and character whose purpose is: to give life and substance to a specific story line, while preserving the director or production designer’s vision. Some of the handouts went over unique techniques for breaking down compositions using alphanumericals to organize the center of interest in a picture. copyright Robert Watts Here my father goes over thumbnails and how to simplify key shapes for effectiveness in conveying the essential elements. Simplification and readability are key. copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts Here Robert is using the Legend of Sleepy Hollow to convey drama in emotional content. The idea was to use the bridge and its design as an essential component. copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts Here he is showing designs for dragons to be a part of the Dragon’s Lair scenario. copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts Here are some of the thumbnails I came up with. copyright Jeffrey R. Watts In this image I had to create the thumbnails for a group of pirates approaching a sunken Galleon. I then took one of the ideas and developed it further just for fun! copyright Jeffrey R. Watts copyright Jeffrey R. Watts In these images my father is showing the students how to develop and cast proper shadows using shorthand, easily understood concepts-a monumental task for most artists. copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts My father showing a great technique for how to find the meandering Wall of China-a difficult problem indeed. It is fun to watch him work these scenarios out. copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts copyright Robert Watts Here are some of my sketches for this assignment. copyright Jeffrey R. Watts copyright Jeffrey R. Watts copyright Jeffrey R. Watts Here are some more examples from the class. copyright Jeffrey R. Watts copyright Jeffrey R. Watts copyright Jeffrey R. Watts In Closing this class is one of several we teach at the Atelier that covers how to compose and put pictures together. They are much needed and in my opinion very hard to find. The artists that were taught in this manner are all but gone. It is a throw-back to the halcyon days of the past. These concepts must be understood in order to create any substantial illustration, concept or fine art painting that looks to stand the test of time. Hopefully we will see you in one of these classes in the future. This class will be taught again during out Fall 2012 term starting October 9th. :
Thanks to Jacquelien from Kids Artists for this idea . Also the work of English Op Artist Bridget Riley (1931-). Image: Bridget...
"A gruffalo ? What's a gruffalo ?" "A gruffalo! Why didn't you know?" Let me introduce you to The Gruffalo , my new favorite book...
There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different sides they should see the suggestion of a face and they can begin sketching. I'm going to show them how to use the lines to begin the eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, chin etc... When they have a face they like they should go over it with sharpie. Now they can use watercolor to finish the portrait. I am going to emphasize complementary colors which is another way to force them to be more abstract, but also something Picasso did in his paintings. Student Work I passed out a copy of this worksheet to help them think of different ways to make the features.
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This week the second grade made Paul Klee cat paintings ON FELT!! The lesson plan is adapted from this post on The Art Annex blog. We started out by watching this brief video on YouTube: We used only three materials: white felt (9"x12"), black Sharpie and liquid watercolor, plus spray bottles of water. I did a directed draw of the cat, focusing its lines and simple shapes. Students drew directly on the felt with their sharpies. Then we painted the cat by dabbing on liquid watercolor. The final step: spraying the felt with water so the colors could bleed and blend. I dried the art on large sheets of cardboard. Just in case you are wondering....I did this with just 12 students AND a volunteer. Students got to spray their own art. If I did this with a large class, I would probably assign the spraying to s few responsible students. This is the second project in our Paul Klee unit. You might also like our Paul Klee abstract name art lesson, inspired by Klee's [...]
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A fellow art teacher in my district ( smART Class ) recently asked for back to school ideas. Thanks, Natalie, for the suggestion! I had for...
This is a fun and messy piece of process art that the kids will love. Turn up the music and then drum and splatter and paint away.
These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. Each student constructed their own book with decorative papers, cardboard, ribbon, and construct…
Pop Art Self Portraits- Roy Lichtenstein Inspired olivia I originally found this lesson on Pinterest through https://www.flickr....
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Fourth graders created Australian inspired art. We looked at Aboriginal (Native Australian) art and discovered some key characteristics of Australian Art. We learned about Aboriginal dot paintings a
Year 5/6 Art lesson I have done this lesson a few times over the years when the students are working on the inquiry topic of natural disasters in their classroom. In Australia we have had many devastating bushfires and there are always plenty of news stories and many images to view on line. After viewing
