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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.
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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. It's that time of year when third graders explore the ancient tradition of the Notan. Through the Design Element Space students figure out organic and geometric shapes when drawing lines to cut out. Through a careful process of fitting the shapes then flipping them students create positive and negative space. For this unit students learned how to use crayons the way they were meant to; blending with Complimentary colors and really pushing vibrancy. Imagining a landscape was the first step, which can be the hardest because options are endless. Second, students created a wax transfer to capture the reflection of their landscape, which would be painted with watercolor. For this Unit students learned their last Design Element Color, specifically Analogous colors. Students had fun creating a continuous line that never crossed, left the page and had to end in the same place it began. Drawing out an organic shape students made what looked like a splat of color within beautiful designed borders. Students learned about Sedef Yilmabasar's unique style of textile art. Born and creating art in Istanbul, Turkey Sedef lives life by the moto of love what you do or do what you love. Inspired by her cats she uses her Fashion Designer background to paint and create multi-layered works that use bold and striking colors. Students were inspired by her work but also by Contour art, using specifically "blind contour," students looked more at their hands than the work and used one line to convey their hands. For this unit students first learned about Tessellations and the math behind the artistic puzzle. Once completed students learned about one point perspective through optical illusions. This multimedia project included markers, watercolor, sharpies and more. Students for this unit used mixed media for their Street Art wings that included watercolor, oil pastel and color swatches from Home Depot. This color swatches are thrown away daily and unfortunately they are not recyclable. Instead these colorful pieces were repurposed into the students silhouettes. These pieces in particular will be featured in the Art Show this year, enjoy! |
