Empty Bowls - Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and towns across the country to feed the hungry in their communities. We the Students will create the bowls then donate them to a branch of the Empty Bowls Charity where they will be auctioned off to raise money for the local food bank.
Now that we have learned how to operate the potters wheel and make bowls we will learn an plethora of glazing and finishing techniques for decoration and use.
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Caricature Drawing!
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Dog Show
For this assignment students will create a portrait of mans best friend, dogs. Students can choose from a collection of dog images or work from an image of their own pet dog. Students will work with a variety of mediums and will be allowed to create in a wide variety of methods to produce their dog portrait. Portraits can be photo realistic, abstract, surreal, etc. Alvin ISD k-12 curriculum framework: Relevance, Noticing Deeply, Voice, Play and Practice. TEKS: Art Level I C 1. A, B, 2. A, B, C, 3. A, B, Artist reference: Alfred Mucha, Andy Warhol, Assessment: Teacher assessment with classroom rubric. Objective: Creating a personal 2-D portrait work of art Vocabulary: negative space, positive space Reference: dogs Photo Editing Instructions to Posterize : Click Here |
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Ceramics - Bobble Head
For this project you will get your hands dirty in your favorite project of the year, Mask Making with Clay! ( I guarantee it ) Bettge will show you step by step procedures to making a ceramic decorative mask out of clay. Once finished you will glaze it with a variety of different glazes and techniques and fire it in the kiln. Students will learn: 3-D techniques of creating cartoon like, mouth, noes, eyes, ears, and facial structure by following daily demonstrations given by instructor. Student will also learn: Properties of clay, how it is made, what it is made of, firing techniques, wedging, score & slip, and proper storage. History: Students will view PP slides and video of how clay has been used since the beginning of mankind Artist Reference: Past Students Examples & in class demonstrations Vocabulary: wedging, quartz inversion, score & slip, firing, Grade: 1 participation 1 classwork 1 final project TEKS: Art Level 1 C. 1 A B C; 2 A B D 3. A |
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CONTRAST-O
Contrast-0 , for this assignment students will solve a puzzle of mirror imaging or replicating in negative. Students will learn to create a design that can either be replicated opposite or flipped. Using a special paper students will design cut and past a contrasting design.
Vocabulary: Contrast Resources: Past student examples Assessment: Teacher evaluation critique - RUBRIC Grades: 1 Participation, 1 Classwork, 1 Final Project. |
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Personal Pennant
For this quick one day assignment students will create a pennant that will describe them self VISUALLY ! First- Using lines. Divide your pennant into 3 sections. Shapes, lines, triangles, circles, stripes, it doesn’t matter just as long as there are 3. Some examples… Pick a section draw a symbol you think represents you or an object you really identify with. Try to stay away from simple clichés - no stars, hearts, rainbows, money signs. Examples: a baseball, a Starbucks cup, a vinyl record, a robot, an animal etc. Next section: Pick a word you love that symbolizes you in literary form. (Be appropriate) FILL UP THE ENTIRE SECTION. You can repeat it, draw it big, etc. Make sure you use a FONT. Look through the typography packet to get ideas for different shapes and types of text. Last section- make a pattern that you identify with. Will it look sharp? Curvy? Feminine? Futuristic? Natural? Psychedelic? All the background needs to be colored. Use your FAVORITE COLORS. |
Dia de los Muertos Folk Art
Calaveras For this assignment students will learn about the culture of Mexico and its folk art by making a ceramic Day of the Dead painted skull. A common symbol of the holiday is the skull colloquially called the calavera.
Vocab: Clay, Score, Slip, Fire, Acrylic, Resources: power point, past student example pics, in class demonstrations. Materials; Clay, Paint, Assessment: Teacher evaluation critique - RUBRIC Grades: Class work - Process- Participation - Final Project TEKS: Art Level 1 C. 1 A B C; 2 A B D 3. A |
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Lawndale Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Barnacle Retablo For this project students will learn basic paper Mache skills using decorative craft art paper. Students will honor a past relative, friend, or idol by adding an image to the retablo. Students will then add offerings to the barnacle. All artwork Barnacle Retablos will be combined to make an art installation to be installed in the school and to compete with other schools in the Lawndale Day of the Dead art show
Vocab: Paper Mache, cell-u-clay, armature, papell pacado, ofrendas, sugar skull, Resources: power point, past student example pics, in class demonstrations. Materials; newspaper (shredded) glue buckets, balloons, masking tape, poster board, cell-u-clay, latex house paint, acrylic paint. Assessment: Teacher evaluation critique - RUBRIC Grades: Class work - Process- Participation - Final Project TEKS: Art Level 1 C. 1 A B C; 2 A B D 3. A |
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Things to Consider
Likeness- If you can’t tell who it is supposed to be, then it is not successful. All good caricatures incorporate a good likeness of their subjects. Exaggeration- Without some form of exaggeration, or a departure from the exact representation of the subject’s features, all you have is a portrait. The level of exaggeration can vary wildly, but there must be some departure. A straight portrait is not a caricature. Statement- I believe a caricature must editorialize in some way. The artist must be trying to say something about the subject. It might be something to do with the situation the subject is drawn in, it may just be a play on their personality through expression or body language, it might be a simple as making visual fun of some aspect of their persona or image. Exaggeration itself can accomplish this in some cases. The best caricatures say something more about the subject than that they have a big nose |
Zoetrope
Objective: Students will learn how to create their own short moving animation or “old school GIF” by creating a zoetrope drawing Sequence: Students will use rulers, yardstick, and pencil to properly measure out the zoetrope template (all measurements must be exact for their image to be properly animated) Students will view images by artist Eadweard Muybridge and other zoetrope artist. Students will learn the history of the zoetrope and how the most modern discovery of the zoetrope created todays motion picture. Students will draw out a rough draft plan prior to creating the final project of a 19 image zoetrope template. History: Students will view images and class discussion of the history of the zoetrope (originally discovered in 890 AD) Grade : 1 participation 1 classwork 1 Final Project Vocabulary: animation, turntable, GIF, motion picture. Show and tell: past student examples, examples by Eadweard Muybridge. Artist Ref: Eadweard Muybridge. |
Zoetrope Rules
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DIa de los Muertos REALISTIC Folk Art Paper Mache Skulls
This will be your second 3-D artwork that you create for this class. You will be lead on a step by step process to building a Realistic Paper Mache Human Skull. You will then decorate your skull with traditional Day of the Dead fold art style designs. A lesson in the traditions of Day of the Dead will also be discussed. Questions:
Vocab: Paper Mache, cell-u-clay, armature, papell pacado, ofrendas, sugar skull, Resources: power point, past student example pics, in class demonstrations. Materials; newspaper (shredded) glue buckets, balloons, masking tape, poster board, cell-u-clay, latex house paint, acrylic paint. Assessment: Teacher evaluation critique - RUBRIC Grades: Class work - Process- Participation - Final Project TEKS: Art Level 1 C. 1 A B C; 2 A B D 3. A |
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Dia de los Muertos