Project A or B.

Choices.

We all have our choices and you will be provided with two choices as we move into the final 6 weeks of our semester together.
We are going to be discussing both today.

Project A is a Dale Chihuly inspired Sculpture.

Acetate + wooden dowel + Sharpies + Scissors

Analogous Color Schemes / Warms or Cools

Dale Chihuly : Through the Looking Glass

Space - not just how the object will look alone, but how the object will look in a room

Project B is a Boey inspired Sharpie Coffee Cup Drawing.

Sharpie + Paper Cup

Black and white / line / dots / designs / minimal color

pointillism, hatching, cross-hatching, space, size, and focus

Video and Sharpie Boey Blog

Discussing what we thought of it and asking students...

• How would they like to draw without sketching first?
• How would they feel about throwing out at 80% finished project because you "messed it up." 
• What do they think of drawing on coffee cups?
• What else could they draw on?
• How does he make dark and light areas?

Reduction Printmaking Project

Portraits... we are exactly who we are at this very moment... 

we can be better in the next minute, we can be worse, but we are who we are... and we need to be our best us....

But in portraits, we get to be us or someone else or a snapshot of the very moment 

And there are always options...

We will be doing a 2 step printing project.

In the first step we will be identifying the contour line of our portrait.  Carving the material away and inking.  Choose two colors to ink with...... 

The second step with be the elimination of the remaining white.  Finishing by printing what is left.

Chose one color and black.

Batiking & Radial Design

OK Go.

a symmetrical design or arrangement with radiating parts

Batik

a wax resist dyeing application

Color Schemes

yellow green blue

red purple blue

yellow orange red

completing the process with black

Examples from previous years.

Modigliani and Modeling Paste

Modigliani, an artist know for his elongated and elegant portraits with a twist or distortion to the neck and body.  Traits also include hollow eyes, long noses, small mouths.... With all of this Modigliani inspiration, how are we going to make our portraits look like us?
Think about the little things that make us who we are:
Hair: length and type
Piercings: face and ears
Accessories: necklaces and apparel

Modeling Paste is going to make the background have some texture.
We will be creating stencils for our patterned background or design.  It doesn't need to be a pattern, but give it some variety: size, shape, detail
Xacto knives with be used to cut your stencils: Safety First.
 An example from online....

this is done with plastic, we are using paper

Time of Day. Weather. Season.

Clay- Relief Sculpture Project.

We reviewed Hiroshige- a famous Japanese Artist, with a focus on his wood block prints, identifying what time of day, weather, or season was occurring in the prints.

Examples:  Identify what is possible within the prints.  All may be possible, but all may not.

Next up:  Clay Vocabulary!

Put in the Work.

That is what this week is.... work.  AND we need to use it wisely.
We do not wait for everyone to finish before we move on to another project, so you have to be able to keep up or realize what needs to be done in order for you to complete your projects.  We only have a semester together, and NOT getting to something isn't an option.

With that being said... lets talk more about these again...
Color will be considered an option and needs to be minimally used in your work.

Shading Shapes into Forms

Contour Line + Shoes

Contour Lines - also known as the outlines of a subject will be focused on today.
&
Composition - the arrangement of objects (in our case, on our paper)

This began yesterday- the ability to use line to draw what we see (not what we think we see, but what is really there)

So today we move into a simple subject that all of us have brought with: one of our shoes.
(HOW EXCITING!  Air one of those feet out as it's shoe sits right in from of you to draw! -YES)

Some examples of contour lines-

Art @EJH.... We begin...

today was the longest you may ever hear me talk... I love working and diving into our projects!
So Lets GO!

Remember the Goal:   RESPECT.
 webster: a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way
We are important.  You are important.  Mistakes will happen.  Misunderstandings will happen.  
How we choose to interact and relate to each will be unique to each of us, but it will be appropriate and it will value the understanding that each of us is important.

Project 1-
The StickMan
Drawing.  using a variety of tools to create a 2D medium visual artwork

We will be working on some practice pieces, using a variety of tools, and understanding the importance of value in our work and advancing our abilities in optical illusions- flat 2 3d through the use of shading.

After the completion of our practice pieces... this is our final project goal, on a smaller scale.
This is why the shading practice is necessary- this is going to look AWESOME!

It's official....

Tonnstodoinart is going to change a bit for the upcoming year....
I am in need of some 'blog-separation' ...

TonnstodoinArt will be specifically for my secondary level art classes and students.
I will be teaching an 8/9 class this next year and with the unknown always in the future it is going to be great to keep the levels separate because instruction and design is very different between the two.
I really find this to be an excellent tool in the classroom and with a bit of a remodel and some work, I am excited to get with our excellent 'big kids' for an hour a day in the 2014-15 school year and share in work with a wonderful colleague of mine....


Elementary will be entirely on the Howe Elementary blog of Smocks&Splatter!

Welcome Summer... be safe, find time for family, friends, and laughter!  -mrsT

May Madness and The first bit of June!

So we mixed things up a bit... and they look a little like this:
I tried for too much at the end with 4th.. so we canceled the paw print project for next year.

4th grade- paper mache bowls

3rd grade- totem pole completion... (so awesome) + Zentangle day

2nd grade- cityscapes - paint, marker, sponge, details

1st grade- Butterflies - fine motor work and getting some art up around school for the summer!
the zentangle paintings and butterflies will fill the boards...

K- symmetrical design cutting and dip papers
(the magic of scissor shapes and folded paper... this stuff makes you feel like you are a wizard!)

The final stretch.....

Spring Break is over.. and April showers have finally arrived!!!

This being the first year back at elementary... I am unsure on how to finish but I am excited with what we have in store for us!
ARTWORK is going home... depending on the grade level, you have a lot or a little....
2nd grade worked hard on Team collaboration projects this year with their Chihuly chandeliers, Keith Haring action life-size paintings, and Van Gogh basket of yarn-painted Sunflowers... I love the collaborative projects!

4th Grade:
Paw Collaborative Project.  & Paper Mache.
Each student will be given a (  ) sheet.  They will develop their Paw Print and decide what kind of media they would like to use... using more of a drawing platform / painting platform / or a mixed media platform to create their paw print to be put up for permanent display in the library.
Each class will be doing a different variation of the Paw Project and this will go with our PBIS work on 'Being a Top Dog' at Howe Elementary.

Paper Mache-  love this stuff.. and lets face it.  it is time to get messy... we will be making paper mache bowls... pretty low key but definitely doable.

3rd grade will be developing a Totem Pole Project for our School Garden....
Pacific Northwest Totem Pole History Video.
Native American Totem Poles and Their Meanings.
Examples from another Art Classroom....in Alberta, Canada + Ms. McCallum's Art Room.

Color. Texture. Pattern... What would we like for our class totem?

Grade 2:

Cityscape Painting... a focus on Architecture.  Pattern.  Color.  With 3 musts.. a Road, Buildings, Sky... the rest is all up to them.

Grade 1:

Dippity dyes & Fish Fun..... 

K:

Flowers made from reusable materials and COLOR MIXING.... Spring is in the AIR!

(pics to come).....

APRIL!

K-
Sunflowers Mixed Media Collage....
Paint, Marker, Paper, Collage Paper....

Completed Amate Bark Paintings & Sunflowers

1-
Printmaking-

We have design our Laurel Birch inspired cats (or lions) and will be printing them.

Then we will be applying them to our Primary Color Patterned Paint papers.

Cutting some detail into the edges and finishing it off with some FUN!

2- 

Weaving + Stitching + Metal Symmetrical Mask w/ Lines + Shapes

Our burlap was woven with a pattern of paper strips, trimming the edges and then applying it to paper to have a running stitch on the edges of the burlap.  NEXT we work on the mask!  Metal Tooling is so exciting.  The possibilities!

 

3-

Radial Design Weaving with Complimentary colors

We are using a kind of diffusing paper to create a radial design project.  Two sized papers will be designed and then a pair of compliments will be chosen to use.  Sharpie is outlining the design which creates a type of barrier for the paint to stop spreading... I am using liquid watercolor with them that I have watered down.

They are to think about color, positive & negative space and the way they are choosing what gets filled in and what doesn't - One color per paper.

My practice design used primary colors but we are WAY beyond that in 3rd grade!

4- 

Amate Bark Painting Continues on and we will be writing about our work.  Students have had to chose an animal, reptile, bird, bug... the list goes on.  They will not complete their project by incorporating a paragraph about that main object- they will use the write tools concept we have been working on this year in our school.

Topic.   3-4 BIG IDEAS.   Conclusion.

My example for the Panda Bear:

         The giant panda lives in the mountainous regions of central China that are full of bamboo forests.  Bamboo is the main course for pandas to dine on.  They spend almost half of their day, 12 hours, eating bamboo.  It takes 28 pounds of bamboo to meet a panda's daily intake of food.  These mountainous, bamboo regions are very cool and wet.  It is a perfect climate for the panda to live and eat.

More ART!

Jim Dine & his Hearts series
- clay coil project for second grade

Amate Bark Painting

- one main focus piece surrounded with flora, fauna, or a border.

focus piece- animal, amphibian, insect, bird, fish, etc

Ex

Laurel Birch Inspired Cat Prints

- printing with black using styrofoam plates and creating a colorful patterned background using a primary base with secondary shapes and lines.

Radial Balance 

- students will create two works on dye paper.  using permanent markers to block areas, liquid water colors will be used to fill in the sections. 1- primary 1- secondary or Complimentary colors or Monochromatic schemes.

an example of radial symmetry

Youth Art Month & the KIDzART Show @ McMillan Library..

.. is HERE & UP!!!

This is my first year in elementary in a while boys & girls... and thanks to all your creativity we have had a successful year.  Something I have learned along the way- dive in, see how it goes, and learn along the way.. Boy, have you youngsters taught me so much this year!

Here are some photos for a little bit of a sneak peak:
Lots of beautiful work.  We are definitely surrounded by some magnificent art teachers and artists-in-training!!

Come and celebrate with us on March 13th at our Art Reception from 4:30 - 6:30