Live Art, Breathe Art: December 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

End of Semester Mini Project - Storybook Figures!

Mini Project: Storybook Figures

Project adapted from: Hinshaw, Craig. "Storybook Figures. "School Arts Magazine Dec. 2015: 27. Web.

Objective:

To create a story board story about a princess or a superhero.

To create a figure using aluminum foil based on the main character of their story. The students will also make clothing for their character.

To make your story more interesting your character needs to have a problem!

Most children's stories have a happy ending. How does your character solve his or her problem?
How does the story end?

Materials:

Storyboard worksheet

Scratch paper

Pencil
Aluminum Foil

Pipe Cleaners

Tissue Paper

White Glue

Examples of Student Work:
Grade 6 (Semester)

Monday, December 28, 2015

Torn Paper Animals

Objective: To use torn paper/magazines to create an animal collage on a cardboard panel.

Materials:

pencil

sketchbook

plastic animals to draw from observation

scratch paper

11x14 cardboard

glue

Art History Connection: Deborah Shapiro

Examples of Student Work: Grade 6 (Semester)

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Objective:
The students will think about one subject (object) that they will emphasize. This will be the largest object in an imaginary landscape, perhaps the one that appears closest in their art work. The students will use the "rule of thirds" to create their composition.

Art History Connection:
Artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe understood how to make a small object dominate a landscape and appear larger than life She placed natural objects such as shells, flowers, or bones in the foreground and made them monumental, dominating the composition.

Vocbulary:

Center of interest
Scale
Foreground
Background
Rule of Thirds

Materials:
Drawing paper
Pencil
Oil Pastels

Small Objects (shells, flowers, bones, model cars)
Apron

Examples of Student Work:
Grade 6 Art (Year)

Monday, December 7, 2015

How to make hanging globes

Materials:
Cereal Boxes
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature Figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)
Miniature Bells

Step 1: Trace your clear plastic cup onto a cereal box or other type of cardboard. We used M&M, Pasta, and Bisquick Boxes.

Step 2: Cut out your circle(s)

Step 3: Glue doily to cardboard circle

Step 4: Use hot glue to attach a miniature figurine onto the center of your doily that has been glued to a cardboard circle.

Step 5: Use scissors or other sharp object to make a small hole in the center of the clear cup.

Step 6: String a bell through hole of the cup and tie a knot at the top.

Step 7: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup

Step 8: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup.

Step 8: Flip globe over and use hot glue to attach a pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass

Congratulations, you are done! Now you can gift these to your family, friends, and co-workers!

Student Work Examples:

JMS Art Club

Thursday, December 3, 2015

How to Make Snow Globes

This month during our Art Club meeting, we made some hanging globes and snow globes using easy to find materials. I will create another post on how to make the hanging globes.

How to make Snow Globes:

Materials:
Cereal Boxes
Snow (Mixture of Fine Salt and Extra Fine Glitter)
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)

Step 1: Trace your clear plastic drinking cup onto a cereal box or other type of thin cardboard. We used M&M , Pasta, and Bisquick boxes.

Step 2: Cut out your circle(s)

Step 3: Glue doily to cardboard circle

Step 4: Use Hot Glue to attach a miniature figurine onto the center of your doily that has been glued to a cardboard circle.

Step 5: Pour salt and extra fine glitter into your clear plastic cup.

Step 6: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup.

Step 7: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup.

Step 8: Flip snow globe over and attach pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass.

Congratulations, you are done! Now you can gift these to your family, friends, co-workers!

Student Work Examples:

JMS Art Club

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Beyond Borders - Water Life

Objective: To use the "Rule of Thirds" to place the focal point of the subject off-center.
To use watercolor painting and ink techniques reviewed in their previous lessons.

Materials:

pencil

sketchbook
plastic animals to draw from observation
scratch paper
12x18 watercolor paper
permanent markers (black)
liquid watercolors

Examples of Student Work:

Art Grade 6 (Semester Class)

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Making Wearables from E-Waste

Artist, Cyrus Kabiru, is turning e-waste into wearables and art! I am in love with this idea. I see a new e-waste lesson plan in my future.

"Cyrus Kabiru. "Young World Inventors Lessons from Africa. N.p., n.d. Web 01 Dec. 2015

"Kenyan Artist digs Through Electronic Refuse and Found Metal to Create Dazzling Sculptural Eyewear." Colossal. N.p., July 2015. Web. 01 Dec. 2015

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