These designs are an eye trick -the students' names are the main concept! They learned about radial symmetry by designing their names, tracing, and puzzling the pieces together to create these beautiful works that make it seem like the viewer is looking into a kaleidoscope, job well done!
This project was a quick introduction
to the artist, Mark Rothko, who
created field paintings that are much
larger than the ones we created.
Instead of paint, we used chalk to
blend into our construction paper
with limited colors, large squares,
and rectangles.
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The students made coil pots! Some made them into creatures while others decided to give a creative twist to pancakes. They have been fired in the kiln once and are ready to be glazed!
Don't they look wonderful after some colorful glazes?! |
This was a quick fun project to do while the coil pots
were being fired in the kiln. The students learned about
positive/negative space and were also introduced and
inspired by the famous street artist, Banksy. They used
homemade spray paint: watercolor dissolved in water
and put into spray bottles. (This was my example for
the students.)
Students learned about the genre, pop art, and artists that influenced the era such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein. We took ideas from each of these artists by turning an item from everyday life and turning it into art -OUR SHOES! Each student painted their own background before printing a repeated design on top, then we each were able to take off a shoe and draw it from observation before adding color. The students' talent with this project amazes me!
Another take on pop art: we focused on the work of Roy Lichtenstein and created self-portraits. First we talked about proportions of the face and how to create comic features and then added the primary colors and pixels to resemble the style. We used acrylic paint after sketching with pencil.
This project was based on the style
of folk art. We talked about the flat
images with the use of patterns and
colors within the folk artists' style.
We then created our own landscapes
before painting them.
of folk art. We talked about the flat
images with the use of patterns and
colors within the folk artists' style.
We then created our own landscapes
before painting them.
We used plaster to create the mold of the mask and then learned about masks from different cultures to inspire our own cultural mask designs. Sugar skulls originated in Mexico, Japanese masks show more emotion, African masks use various colors and shapes, and Venetian masks are more elegant and whimsical.