Teaching is a sacred mission. If you are a teacher and love your job, wear your heart on the sleeve with these amazing teacher tattoos.
Teaching is a sacred mission. If you are a teacher and love your job, wear your heart on the sleeve with these amazing teacher tattoos.
About the Book In Xavier's neighborhood, tattoos represent gang membership. After Xavier catches an unexpected glimpse of his new teacher's tattoos, he learns that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to the cultural significance of tattoos. Based on real events that took place during author Darren Lopez's first year teaching in Washington DC, My Teacher Has Tattoos is an impactful conversation starter that brings to life the pitfalls of stereotyping in the classroom and beyond. Book Synopsis In Xavier's neighborhood, tattoos represent gang membership. After Xavier catches an unexpected glimpse of his new teacher's tattoos, he learns that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to the cultural significance of tattoos. Based on real events that took place during author Darren Lopez's first year teaching in Washington DC, My Teacher Has Tattoos is an impactful conversation starter that brings to life the pitfalls of stereotyping in the classroom and beyond.
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Varying the lines you use creates a more interesting drawing. This drawing uses straight lines, curved lines, thick lines, thin lines, hatching, cross-hatching, spirals, scribbles and zig-zags. Before reading this post click here for a list of art supplies and resources (and where you can buy them) to create your own wonderful line drawings. Below is the sphere pattern I used in the above video: Printable worksheets by the helpful art teacher. Understanding line, shape and form Here is the pencil sketch of my picture before I added the rhythmic lines. While this pencil sketch is 'good', it is not nearly as engaging as the finished picture. Look at the artwork of these famous illustrators to gain a better understanding of how you can use line in your own artwork: Looking at a picture and noticing the lines the artist used will enable you to copy any drawing accurately. Follow the directions in the worksheet below. This really works! Try this trick with any linear drawing, no matter how complex. You will surprise yourself. Artists use line to express volume Using the worksheet below, try adding different types of lines to transform flat shapes into three-dimensional forms Click on the link below to learn about the work of Carl Krull, an artist who uses line to express volume: http://hifructose.com/2014/10/01/on-view-carl-krulls-seismic-at-v1-gallery/ Drawings by Carl Krull Artists use line to express movement Some examples of illustrations that use lines to express movement by Arthur Rackham This illustration depicts a windy day. How do we know it is windy? Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. -Christina Georgina Rossetti If wind is invisible, as the poem says, how can we draw it? Can you use your knowledge of different types of lines to create a picture that shows a windy day? Here are some stock photographs I found on the Internet of windswept trees to get you started. ALBUM OF SKY REFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHS BY RACHEL WINTEMBERG The album above uses a Flash player. If you are on a mobile device and do not have a Flash player, you can see my album of sky reference photographs by clicking on the link below: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Aliciasmom/slideshow/sky%20reference%20photos Whenever I look at clouds, I am fascinated by the beauty of the sinuous, curving biomorphic lines Here is how some of my 5th and 6th grade students illustrated the wind and made the invisible visible: How would you use clouds to show the wind blowing in your own picture? What type of lines would you use? How did Vincent Van Gogh Depict Movement in his famous painting, Starry Night? What type of lines did he use? How did Katsushika Hokusai use line to express movement?http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/ Free Printable Worksheet From Line And Form by Walter Crane Click on the link below to download this free ebook: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ToJAAAAAYAAJ Practice using line to show movement by looking at this waterfall in slow motion: How would you draw the lines that show the falling water? What sort of lines would you draw to show the water splashing up? How many different types of lines do you see? How can repeating a line many times in a rhythmic pattern increase the feeling of movement in a picture? How can varying the thickness of a line and the distance between rhythmic lines help to express movement? Artists use line to show texture With just a few lines, Arthur Rackham creates the softness of Alice's hair, the bushy disheveled fur of the field mouse and even the folds of fabric on Alice's dress. In the Van Gogh drawings below, you can almost feel the textures of the landscape. Artists use line to depict space. Artists use thicker lines in the foreground and thinner, more delicate lines in the background, to create the illusion of distance in their pictures. Here are some more of Van Gogh's drawings The print below is the work of Jean Millet, Vincent Van Gogh's favorite artist. Notice how the lines in the background are lighter in value, thinner and more delicate, creating the illusion of three dimensional space. Here is a video of my cousin, Hiroko, teaching me about Japanese sumi brush painting. See how she uses line, shape, form,movement, texture and space to create a snake, dragon and octopus, with simple brush strokes. From The Helpful Art Teacher's Sketchbook Using Line To Show Movement Graphic pen on paper by Rachel Wintemberg Watercolor on paper by Rachel Wintemberg Artists use line to create rhythmic designs and patterns. This is particularly useful for designing fabrics or wallpaper. http://www.comunidademoda.com.br/editorial-optical-art-w-magazine-anos-60 If you repeat a line, or create a repeating pattern using a series of lines, your artwork will have a sense of rhythmic movement. STUDENT ART GALLERY Why is it important to vary the line width and add shadows? Look at the last student's artwork (above) and then click on the thumbnail to compare it to a picture of his unfinished work: Varying the line width and adding shadows will make your picture more interesting to look at. To lean more about how artist use line, please click on the link below to read my post rhythmic line designs and patterns. That article contains many photographs, project ideas and printable worksheets to inspire your creativity. http://thehelpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/rhythmic-line-designs-and-patterns.html
Gross motor development in preschool is an important thing to address, but it often gets overlooked in preschool classrooms.
Recently people have been asking me to share my timetable and term planning templates that I showed in a previous blog post. Click here to read that post. So here is a link to the term planner that you see below. Just delete the info you don't need and you're good to go. Click here. Here is the template to my timetable template that you see below. Click here. . Unfortunately, I don't give out editable copies of my unit planner template but check out my store to fine planners for many different year levels and subjects. The documents will open up in an internet window. Click on the open button in the top right corner and select 'Open in Word 2016'. Make sure to save to your computer before you begin entering. Make sure you join up to my email subscribers list where I send out a monthly newsletter featuring exclusive freebies and follow me on facebook for giveaways. ⇨ Like us on Facebook ⇨ Follow us on Pinterest
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