Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful summer, I know I did! Well we are already 3 weeks in and have managed to complete 2 projects! We are on a roll! The following picture is the result of a collaborative mural every student in the school contributed to. Every student used the element of line to create patterns then colored their petal their class color. I put all the petals together to create a flower! The students loved this project and were very excited to see the end result. Keep being creative!
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WOOOOWWW These Romero Britto inspired marker prints are turning out amazing! This is only the first step with the printmaking. When they dry we will trace all the white lines with a sharpie to make our designs, patterns, and drawing POP!!
This is my first time teaching this lesson. I wanted my students to ease into drawing so we looked at some Optical Illusion art. The kids LOVED the work of Vasarely. We talked about how repeated pattern, color, and line created a sense of movement and/or 3-D in the work. Then we set about investigating how to use a ruler with accuracy to create our grid. It was fantastic seeing the students’ amazement when their lines created the Op art. We then used complementary colors to color them. Great work!
Did you know that the Egyptians believed in something called a Ka and the afterlife? That's right! Egyptians believed that when a person died, their Ka (or what we call a soul) lived on in the afterlife. They believed that the Ka would behave just as it did when the person was alive. The Ka would wake up and leave the body every morning, eat, play, then go back to sleep at night. The Egyptians believed that the Ka would need a way to know which body was its own and that was the purpose of the Death Mask. The Egyptians would mummify the bodies, then wrap them in linen, then over the head a Death Mask would be placed. The mask would resemble the person who had passed. The Kings and Queen's masks would be made out of precious materials and gemstones and the people who did not have as much money, the masks would be either painted wood or the face would be painted directly on the linen. This mask would help the Ka find its body. We also talked about some of Egyptian history. Egypt was divided into upper and lower Egypt. Upper Egypt was protected by the Vulture goddess Nekhbet and Lower Egypt was protected by the Cobra goddess Wadjet. We learned that the crowns would show either of these gods and based on the one we saw we would know which land the Pharaoh ruled over. We also talked about the False beard. We learned that only Pharaohs wore a false beard and if we looked at art and saw an Egyptian with a false beard they would always be the Pharaoh. WOW, BTW kids LOVED learning all this. EVERY class was hooked and I challenged them all to go to the library and read more books on the Egyptians. After we discussed this, we then learned how to draw a Death Mask. Then we talked about pattern and symmetry. We used pattern to draw the horizontal lines on the mask and made sure that our work was as symmetrical as possible. We used oil pastels to color with and finally gold paint. The last step is not depicted but we will cut these out and mount onto black paper and used glue and glitter to draw hieroglyphs of our initials. WHEH! This lesson I do every year to celebrate black history month and it makes a fantastic arts integration project. We discuss the art of Faith Ringgold then create our very own story quilts. We learn how to make a pattern around our border then discuss the qualities of a good story. We talk about how great stories have lots and lots of details and supporting information. We discuss how artists don't write down their details, instead, we draw our details. Using lots of details in your drawings not only makes them more interesting but also helps the viewer understand your art and what it means. Check out the work of these amazing artists! You can find the lesson here! |
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