Keep'n it Real...

.. or at least we are always trying to.

Updating is a continual for blogging and it helps keep the order of things together and the work for the week at a 1-stop shop for class use.

I am always amazed at how much can be accomplished in the matter of an hour with K-2 vs 3-4!

Keeps me on my toes and gives me absolutely no time to allow myself to wander to another project without breaking it down... 

My experiments with each class had led to some awesome findings, keeps things interesting and allows the projects we do to continue to evolve.  

The only hard part: remembering as I look through their projects just where we left off and what they were doing that the others weren't...

BUT- art is nothing without some experimenting.. so experiment we will.

K- Monsters (book in class) and Mondrian

1- Piet Mondrian work with geometric shapes & Primary colors
Mondrian Video of stop motion & another video of Mondrian's Painting progression

2- Dale Chihuly 'Persian' Series : Through the Looking Glass

Chihuly- In Action  They are amazed at the transformation of Glass.

Students will be designing a pattern addressing color and watch the transformation of the plastic as the heat gun begins to mold the plastic; a correlation to glass as it is heated.

3- Landscapes - Foreground, Middle Ground, Background / Large, Medium, Small / Details & Distance

4- Portrait Completions and Creating Fonts Completion / We will then be doing a quick lesson on lettering and one-point perspective / Video

Composition of Red, Yellow, and Blue by P.Mondrian

 Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1921), a painting composed of primary colored rectangles on a grid of black lines. In the years that followed, he continued to eliminate "non-essentials", limiting his works to these "basic forms of beauty."