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Students for this unit learned about artist Glennray Tutor, who is a master at the art movement Photorealism. Students drew from observation two marbles, which is no easy feat when looking into glass taking on the reflections of the room and shadows. Students used Prismacolor colored pencils for their marbles and chalk pastel for the shadows their marbles created.
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This unit is by far a new favorite for One Point Perspective. Using angles and finding their vanishing point students cleverly pieced together these supernovas. Using value shading and paint helped the optical illusion. Watercolor backgrounds for their galaxies makes these pieces stand out. For this unit students learned about the Design Element Line. Using a continuous line students made a maze that was their foundation for a silhouette of a creature. Using analogous color groups students had to figure out color placement. Framing in their work makes for quite the piece in these stunning works. Always a favorite, when students get to explore one line without the pressure of perfection. Blind contour art is just the thing to step into the world of Sedef Yilmabasar's design and color. I always enjoy seeing what textile patterns students imagine throughout their works. This is just about the favorite of all projects to fifth graders. Learning about the Oaxacan culture and the story behind the famous Oaxacan animal. Students had to pick through wooden pieces to figure out their animals, how they are to balance and stand on their own. The intricacy of their designs painted with tiny brushes they had to practice patience to learn control of the materials. Students knocked this one out of the park not only with Learning new Design Elements such as Form and Value but how to figure spacing those pieces out in a three dimensional room. Students chose color carefully and had to consider light and how that affects a space and color. For this unit students learned about one of my favorite female artists, Georgia O'Keeffe. Size, cropping, smooth blending qualities were all taken into account as inspiration from this iconic artist. Students had to color match their artwork to the realistic nature of their shell using ratios of oil pastel and direct observation skills. For this unit students spent three months creating quite an involved Pop Art Self Portrait. Learning about the founding fathers of the movement of Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, students were inspired by both techniques within their portrait. Various paint techniques including blending skin tone was taught to make these fantastic pieces. Zentangles, the word says it all...to ZEN. Students learned about the therapeutic art form of the Zentangle that combines line design, shape and pattern. Design Element Form was introduced as well to create the familiar pumpkin. Using oil pastels students learned how to properly blend oil pastels to create an illusion of three dimension. These stunning Silhouette trees started and ended just in time with the season change. Students learned about this affordable way in the 18th century to get a "photograph" taken of oneself but instead of a side profile students invented their own tree. Using rulers to the half inch a grid was formed. Students either chose a sun or a moon to depict and learned about what truly a warm versus a cool color means, which has everything to do with saturation. |
