tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25964209387523843782024-03-12T06:00:09.369-07:00Art Room 104Welcome to Art Room 104! Well, I no longer teach in room 104...it's now room 309, but the heart is still there! I have now transitioned into teaching 7th-12th grades, and my focus is now moving towards Choice Based Learning in the art room. Join me on my journey as I enter new territory, experiment, and share how I fit it all into the realm of Common Core!Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-25786154206933256972016-11-06T15:36:00.001-08:002016-11-06T15:36:18.231-08:00Studio Art: ZentanglesFirst official Studio Art project of the year was zentangles. Yes, zentangles. I know this word is a cause of debate among a lot of art teachers, and this year, it even caused a bit of a debate among my students, which actually made me quite happy! Whether you call it zentangling, or doodling, or drawing, or whatever, the idea behind it is to be relaxed, have fun, and draw about something that interests you. I have done a few <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/search/label/zentangles">different versions of zentangle/doodle projects</a> with my students over the last three years, but this year, I felt like they made it more their own. In all honesty, I think my open-ended visual journal assignments have had a hand in this. So, let me explain what I mean.<br />
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I use the zentangle unit as a confidence booster. My Studio Art classes are primarily filled with students who HAVE to be there for the credit to get the Regents Diploma. Aside from the few music students who ask to take my Studio Art classes, most of them think they have no artistic ability, nor do they really want to be there. I'm happy to say that I'm already changing some of their minds about art!<br />
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Anyways, we begin the unit by looking at <a href="http://kerbyrosanes.com/">Kerby Rosanes</a> and his doodle art. We talk about how he turned something he enjoyed doing as a hobby into his job, how his creative process works, and how he organizes his artwork. I use this unit as a way to review the elements and principles of art and to talk about composition. Then, the students learn about zentangling. I have tons of books about zentangling, as well as daily brain activity cards that teach a new zentangle pattern, step-by-step. They really enjoyed using those cards. These are a few of the zentangle tiles the students completed at the beginning of the unit. (Mind you, at this point we have not dove into value, so anything you see here is what they remember from 7th grade.)<br />
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Next came the actual unit project. In my effort to be more choice based this year, students were allowed to incorporate anything into their design that they wanted. I encouraged them to send a message with their work or to use a subject that interested them. Most of the time I hit resistance here because they don't know how to concentrate their ideas into something doable, but I think the open-ended visual journals that we started the year off jump-started their noggins, because every student managed to come up with a great idea!</div>
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I also mentioned that it caused a bit of a debate. In past years, students embraced the zentangle name because it was an interesting word and many of them were very literal, enjoying the step-by-step process behind zentangles. This year, I had quite a few challenge me. "Why do we have to follow steps? Can't we just draw?" "Seriously, I already do this kind of stuff in my notebook, see Mrs. Impey..."</div>
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And this, of course, led to discussions about marketing, branding, what makes something art, and so on! It was great! Aside from having an obvious subject and focal point in this work, I did require them to use patterns in a way to enhance their work, whether they called them zentangles or not, because it forced them to think about composition and those principles of art. I didn't push the use of the zentangle cards or books (except for bell ringers, which I'll share in my next post), to get the artistic juices flowing.</div>
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<i>She comes from a farming family. ;)</i></div>
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<i>Sarge and Tahlia are his family's dogs.</i></div>
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<i>This one and the next come from a couple of gamers.</i></div>
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<i>This student incorporated some of her own poetry!</i></div>
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<i>And this one is very religious.</i></div>
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<i>She incorporated the first letter of her first name.</i></div>
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<i>The one of the left came from a sports student, and on the right, another gamer.</i></div>
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In Art History, once we finished up with prehistoric art, we moved on to Mesopotamia and then Ancient Egypt. So far, even though we only meet every other day, we are keeping on track extremely well with my planned out timeline for the school year. We have three more weeks left for the first quarter and my goal is to cover Ancient Greece by the 10 week marking period. We just finished with the Minoans and Mycenaean, and will be starting Greece on Tuesday this week.</div>
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Here is my student's diorama for Egypt, as well as her essay. At this point, I will start going through her essays to point out areas that she could elaborate on her ideas, and I plan on teaching her the Chicago style of citations (footnotes and end notes). For her next essay, I'm going to require her to use citations as well as cite the textbook we are using in her essay. We will build slowly from there!</div>
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Ancient Egypt is, by far, one of the most impressive cultures in history. From the sky-high pyramids, to the mummification of their dead, tot he solar religion system, Egypt has obviously amazed archaeologists, historians and even artists for centuries. The ancient Egyptian style of art is shown through paintings and carvings on the inside of pyramid walls, sculptures created to honor gods and the dead, and the actual structure of their buildings, such as pyramids. Throughout this unit, I learned all about the culture of Egypt, which helped to further my understanding of the artwork from this time period. The ancient Egyptians used techniques that differentiate their art from other cultures around this time, such as the canon of proportions--a twisted perspective of the human body, showing a front view of the shoulders and torso, a side view of the head, hips and legs, and identical hands. Gods and goddesses are shown with human bodies and animal heads in all Egyptian artwork. What truly amazed me about the Egyptians is their idea of permanence. Temples and artwork alike were created very strategically and with much thought in order to assure that they would last forever. This idea is also shown through the mummification of the dead, as a way to prepare their people for a permanent afterlife. Ancient Egypt has had a great impact on the world of history, religion, and art.</div>
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For my Ancient Egypt project, I I decided to decorate a diorama to look like the inside of a pyramid. To achieve the ancient pyramid feel, I used spray paint in yellow and red to create a golden look to the pyramid walls on both the inside and outside of my diorama. Inside, I painted a large depiction of Egyptian artwork on the back wall, with two men and a god shown in a line. To make this look extremely realistic, I used the cannon of proportions to paint the figures. Their heads are shown from a side view, although their bodies appear to be from the front view. The god I painted has a bird mask for a head, as Ancient Egyptian art depicted gods and goddesses with animal heads. On the two side walls of my pyramid, I painted hieroglyphics as a writing form, but the writing style they sued includes shapes of objects rather than letters. Symbols I used include the eye, hands, and a turtle. I also created an Egyptian pharaoh in a sarcophagus out of modeling clay, dusted with gold and blue pigments to give it a shiny appearance. Surrounding the Egyptian sarcophagus are four jars, also made out of clay, which would have been used to hold the mummy's stomach, liver, intestines, and lungs. These jars are decorated to represent the head of the mummy. Ancient Egyptian culture has had a major impact on cultures throughout history, and the world.</div>
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The final visual journal assignment that was due at the five week marking period was called Mind Map. I asked students to take this <a href="http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/">right brain / left brain quiz</a> and then illustrate their results. (There is also an <a href="http://www.sommer-sommer.com/brainfacts/train-your-brain-for-free-and-on-the-go-with-the-brain-train-app/">app for the iPad</a> for this particular quiz.) This, of course, required them to do a little research to understand what the right and left parts of the brain did. This project really stressed a lot of them out. If they didn't know what it meant to be right brained, they would ask me, and I would tell them, "Go look it up on the iPad." Which would result in a lot of whining. Some days, I literally had to tell them not to ask me any questions, consult the document in Google Classroom, or ask their friends, at least with the 7th graders. (My 7th graders this year is a pretty needy group...perfectionists...almost feels like they've been hand-fed and they aren't used to doing things on their own anymore...we are slowly breaking down that barrier in the art room!)</div>
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Now, I know that there are some arguments out there that the right brain / left brain theory is an old one and doesn't apply anymore, but I think there is value to this. First, I wanted students to have an unbiased idea of how they think. Most thought they would be left brained, but when they took the quiz THE FIRST TIME, it showed they were more right brained. (Obviously, they would then take the quiz again and skew their results...so if you do this with your students, only allow them to take the quiz ONCE.) Many were surprised that they were 50/50. Some weren't surprised at all that they were mostly left brained. Once they took the quiz, we were able to talk a bit about what that meant for them in art class. If they are more left brained and mathematical, I would expect that they may like to draw using grids and rulers...perfectly ok! I had hoped that by doing this assignment, it would put them more in tune with how they think and what comes more naturally to them so that they could then apply that thinking to their assignments.</div>
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<i>Here is my finished Mind Map assignment. :)</i></div>
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<i>One of the few students who didn't want to use a brain in their image.</i></div>
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<i>Absolutely loved this one!!! Though I think she may have skewed her results because she definitely has more right brain in her than she thinks she does!</i></div>
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<i>One of my Drawing & Painting students. Absolutely love her take on this assignment! She's the only one who actually used a head!</i></div>
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<i>Drawing & Painting student with an AMAZING line drawing!</i></div>
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<i>7th grader...the same with the fabulous graffiti name from the previous post.</i></div>
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Now, again, many of these weren't horribly interesting with design, using mixed media, or brimming with creativity, but they were a great place for us to start having a conversation as a class and to work on critiquing ourselves and others. Later this week, it's my goal to have students upload these to Artsonia using classroom mode and answer a few questions to write their artist statements, and then look at what the students created from the other classes. Round one of visual journal assignments is OVER!</div>
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Here is assignment #2 from the first batch of visual journals assignments due at the five week marking period. The second assignment was a name design on the inside front cover and first page (that two-page spread requirement). Like the cover, it was supposed to be mixed media, and the only other requirement was that the student had to somehow show themselves in the design (like a self-portrait...but it didn't have to be an actual picture or drawing of themselves). Here is a variety of the student designs!</div>
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<i>The student's last name, which is blurred out, really balanced this out well...blurring his name doesn't do it justice!</i></div>
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<i>Collaged background with acrylic name.</i></div>
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<i>An amazing 7th grader I have! He has always admired the graffiti art when we do it as an elementary student...needless to say he is really excited to get to the graffiti unit!</i></div>
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<i>This student used the acrylic spray paint I have, oil pastel, and then used some really cool fabric tape to make his name!</i></div>
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<i>Acrylic paint...not mixed media, but this girl has amazing craftsmanship with paint!</i></div>
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Again, many students missed the boat with the mixed media aspect of this, but I know they are going to improve. We have some pretty solid designs in terms of composition, we just need to work on experimenting and being opening to making mistakes and learning how to fix them. You can see my name design (and cover design) on the first informational post I did about these assignments, with my rubric, <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2016/09/visual-journals-and-daily-bell-ringers.html">here</a>.</div>
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Time to dive into those visual journal assignments I was talking about a while back. I am giving visual journal assignments to my Studio Art, Art 7, and Drawing & Painting classes. (You can read with more detail the idea behind these, as well as check out the rubric I am currently using to grade them <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2016/09/visual-journals-and-daily-bell-ringers.html">here</a>.) Basically, every five weeks, each class has a total of 3 assignments that are due to me. I will not accept them late (they do receive automatic 0's if they are not handed in by the deadline). Students in each class have the deadlines and the assignments for the entire school year all mapped out in a document available to them on the Google Classroom, so there are no excuses. Plus, I have made Fridays "Visual Journal Friday", giving students the opportunity to work on these in class with the materials available.</div>
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Aside from the vague description given for each journal assignment, students must use mixed media and their assignments must be a two page spread. I have my two studio art classes' assignments due on the Friday before the end of each marking period, and then I have the Art 7 and Drawing & Painting students' assignments due on the last Friday of each marking period (though I post that they are due on Thursday instead, just to give a little wiggle room). These assignments are meant to be open-ended, allowing students to think creatively, problem solve, and experiment...basically many of the ideas from Choice Based Learning or TAB programs.</div>
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The first three assignments were a cover design, a name design on the inside cover (that somehow had to have a self-portrait of the student...and by that, I meant not a selfie, and not necessarily a drawing of their face), and something called Mind Map. More on those in the next two posts.</div>
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Here are a whole bunch of the cover designs. The covers were challenging because my students had two different types of sketchbooks...the black, hard cover ones and then spiral bound. The black ones are notorious for becoming unglued at the binding, but unfortunately, all of the sketchbooks I ordered never came in and I had to fall back on the stash I had stocked up on in previous years. (Yes, I supply sketchbooks to my students. If I don't, they bring in Dollar Store sketchbooks that don't have enough pages and fall apart within weeks.) Depending on the cover and depending on what they chose to do, some students had to gesso the covers, some glued drawing paper on so they had a surface to draw on, many painted, and some collaged materials together using acrylic gloss or matte medium.</div>
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<i>This student glued down some drawing paper, drew the geometric forms with pencil, and then use acrylic paint over the top paint negative space, creating his initials.</i></div>
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<i>Acrylic gloss, newspaper, and tissue paper. Then the student used washi tape to write "Art" and also dripped colored India ink onto her collage, blowing it with a straw.</i></div>
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<i>Marker on drawing paper to get the black lines, and then she collaged tissue paper over the top with acrylic gloss.</i></div>
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<i>More acrylic gloss and tissue paper. A bit of glitter too.</i></div>
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<i>Duct tape, green masking tape, and marker.</i></div>
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<i>Tissue paper, acrylic gloss, and painters markers.</i></div>
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<i>Newspaper, tissue paper, and letter stickers.</i></div>
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<i>This student masked off the front cover with tiny strips of masking tape to paint the galaxy diamond with acrylic. Then, the back cover, she mimicked the galaxy.</i></div>
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<i>Acrylic paint...she used masking tape to mask off the chevron, and then painted the anchor and words.</i></div>
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<i>Masking tape and marker.</i></div>
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<i>Collage over the top of an acrylic background.</i></div>
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<i>This student had an amazing marker design drawn out and taped to her cover. She then took magazine clippings and taped them over the top. Unfortunately, I think she went a bit overboard because she covered up her marker design a bit too much, but either way, it's still interesting to look at!</i></div>
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<i>Baseball fan...obviously...tempera and Sharpie.</i></div>
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<i>Gesso background, masked off trees / drawn stencil used for deer head, and then splattered painted with acrylic.</i></div>
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<i>Spray paint, acrylic, oil pastel...</i></div>
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<i>Spray paint and masking tape used to mask off the letters.</i></div>
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<i>Another spray paint with masked off letters. Also used oil pastels to write his name and "journal".</i></div>
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<i>These two covers came from my Drawing & Painting class. I guess I didn't make it very clear to them that it had to be front and back for their cover designs, so for this assignment, I let them do just the front cover. On the left, she collaged together magazine clippings, and on the right, she did scrapbook paper and then created a dress for a croquis using tissue paper. The girl on the right is also in my Fashion Design class, and since posting this, she has added to her cover to make it more mixed media.</i></div>
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<i>A student who went overboard with the acrylic paint and texture rollers (the paint is super thick!!!), but ended up with a really cool feeling visual journal!</i></div>
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<i>Another Drawing & Painting student...chalk, collage, marker...</i></div>
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<i>Acrylic background and washi tape words.</i></div>
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<i>One of my few Drawing & Painting students who did the front and back. She laid down acrylic string gel for texture, painted with acrylic paint, and then splattered the white. I believe she plans on doing more with this but ran out of time before the deadline.</i></div>
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<i>Another Drawing & Painting student. His design is really quite awesome. He was trying to show how ideas look on paper versus how ideas look in his head. We went round and round with each because I felt like he should have outlined the paper and books to make them stand out more. Originally, it looked unfinished when he handed it in, especially with the beautiful bubble at the top. It's hard to see from this picture, but he went back in and added pencil shading to the brain in order to connect the pencil book to the brain.</i></div>
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So, as you can probably tell from these, quite a few students didn't understand the concept of mixed media, nor did they seem to put a huge amount of effort in, but I can tell you that I am EXTREMELY happy with these! Even the ones with seemingly little effort are more effort than sketchbook assignments from previous years. The students are really enjoying these, they like that I give them Friday's in class, and with our next set due the first week of November, I've already seen some amazing ideas on paper! Students were definitely having a hard time with the first batch of assignments because they were worried they would mess up, do something wrong, or it wouldn't be up to my expectations. However, I think they are getting more comfortable already and feeling a bit more creative!</div>
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<a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2016/10/visual-journals-5-weeks-name-design.html">Post #2: Visual Journals 5 Weeks: Name Design</a></div>
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Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-27647746559890505162016-10-09T17:22:00.000-07:002016-10-09T17:22:05.312-07:00Art History: Prehistoric ArtThis year, I am excited to say that I have an Art History course that I am able to offer students college credit through <a href="http://www.potsdam.edu/">SUNY Potsdam</a>, the institution I attended and earned my degrees through. While I originally had 3 students in it (which I thought was amazing, considering history is a tough sell at my district), a math class was moved during the summer and I lost two students, leaving me with one student. Either way, it's still great, we are getting some bonding time, and I'm making art along with her!<br />
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We are using the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Mona-Lisa-Prehistoric-Post-Modern/dp/0740768727/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476058077&sr=1-1&keywords=annotated+mona+lisa">Annotated Mona Lisa</a> as a textbook for this class, and we began with Prehistoric Art. In an attempt to make this class not just lecture (and I'm glad I decided on this because it would be really hard to lecture every day to ONE student), we are incorporating a historical art project every few cultures. As part of the project requirements, my student can create whatever she wants, as long as she displays the characteristics of that culture AND uses an artistic technique by the culture, such as making her own brushes and paints, or using a paint technique or a material specific to that culture.<br />
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We started with prehistoric art, of course, and when we got to the project, she decided (and I thought it was a GREAT idea) to make a diorama for each culture! So, as we progress through the year, she will have a pretty awesome, 3-D timeline made! Along with each project, I ask her to write a two page essay that discusses her project in terms of the techniques and materials she used, how those might reflect the ancient culture, and how her project and decisions as a whole represents that culture. In a college art history class, you usually have to write some sort of term paper, usually 10 pages minimum (at least I had to!). The cooperating professor approved my plan of multiple 2 page essays, and as we progress through the year, I will teach her how to properly cite using the Chicago format of footnotes/end notes. <br />
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<i>We used tissue paper, hot glue, and then <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-professional-spray-paint/?clickTracking=true&wmcp=pla&wmcid=items&wmckw=01432-3200&gclid=Cj0KEQjw1ee_BRD3hK6x993YzeoBEiQA5RH_BNzc4jsLTSmDNaLRa2WKOZN1eSiYZzbFybgY2n1gUe4aAkG98P8HAQ">Liquitex Spray Paint</a> (which is INSANELY AWESOME!) to create the caves. We also made our own <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/10/6th-grade-prehistoric-cave-art.html">egg yolk tempera</a>, which we will utilize again for our Egyptian dioramas, except that we will have to make some gold paint!</i></div>
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My current student taking the class is a senior and is potentially going to college for art, whether she majors or minors in it. She loves writing, so I've sort of tailored this class with her in mind. Here is her first completed project and her first short essay, written completely by her without an edits from me:<br />
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The Prehistoric Era dates back to about 35,000 BC and is one of the first eras known to create artwork. Artworks were created during this time mostly to adorn the body or to decorate. The artwork created by people during this time period can be defined as cave paintings and small sculptures. The artists, mostly female, would make all their own materials, such as the paint created from charcoal, clay, water, blood, and even urine. The paintbrushes would also be handmade, from materials such as twigs, human hair, and grass. Sculptures would be made of ivory, bone, stone and antlers. This time period had a long lasting effect on artists and people around the world, as this was the beginning of the world of art.</div>
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For this project, I chose to create a diorama to represent a cave filled with cave paintings, a fire, paints, and a cave woman. I spray painted the diorama to look identical to a cave, and also built tissue paper up along the left side to give the cave a more realistic appearance. I added texture to the inner part of the cave to show a rough, rock-like texture on the floor and walls. Next, with the help of my teacher, I made my own paint from pigments, water and egg yolks. This process was very interesting and I loved the experience. I used these paints to decorate the inner walls of the cave, painting such things as wild animals, hunters, and hand prints. The idea for the wall paintings came from the notes I had taken in class, and are accurate depictions of what would have been present on cave walls. I also added a human figure, a cave woman, to the diorama. She is dressed in a leather "dress", which would have been created from an animal hide hunted, most likely, by the men. I chose to add a woman over adding a man because most cave painters would be women, which we know because of the small hand prints visible on the walls. The hand prints were used as a "signature" for the artwork, and can be found throughout many caves. I created a fire displayed on the inside of the cave because the paintings were normally found deep inside the caves, where it would have been colder. I also added some of the paint I made into small shells, since these were used to hold paint during this time period.</div>
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Overall, I found this project to be a great experience and I really enjoyed it. I believe my diorama accurately represents a cave woman and the wall paintings. The overall process was unique because I've never made my own paint before, which I found to be interesting. I also like that I added several identifiable factors into my diorama, which helped to show that it's based in the Paleolithic Era.</div>
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<i>My diorama I made with my student. :) Not nearly as good as hers!</i></div>
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This year, I have TWO sections of Photography, and each section has 10 students in it. Sooooo exciting! Also exciting, is that the students are pumped to use the darkroom! Needless to say, it's been about 10 years since I've actually worked in a darkroom at college, so I'm a bit rusty and the chemical mixing, developing times, and in general, the entire process. The nice thing, is that it's coming back to me slowly, but even nicer, is that I'm feeling like it makes my students feel a bit better about now getting it right the first time, if I'm showing them that learning dark room photography tends to be a lot of trial and error in the beginning.</div>
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<i>Lesson #1: Make sure you rinse out the photo chemical storage jugs BEFORE mixing new chemicals. Any dry developer junks up in the bottle and turns it dark brown. Lesson learned!</i></div>
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This is also the first class that I am really using a textbook in. My district purchased me 25 of <a href="https://www.davisart.com/Products/721-7/focus-on-photography-student-book.aspx?bCategory=GP-121428">Davis Productions "Focus on Photography" textbooks</a>, and I'm really loving them! If you want a quality textbook that you'll actually use, this is it! Over the end of the last school year, I was starting to plan my curriculum for the school year, knowing that I wanted to start more with digital and move into film photography as students learned more about composition and their photos became less "snap shot-y" and more artistic so as not to waste the dark room materials. I asked my Davis representative that I met at a NYSATA Conference to send me a copy of their textbook so I could check it out, and I realized that much of my anticipated curriculum, aligned with what was in the textbook, and in the same order it was in the textbook.<br />
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The first chapter in the textbook gives a little history behind the camera and talks about how a camera works. Naturally, pin hole cameras come to mind, and so I made my FIRST pin hole camera! Yep. I've NEVER made one before. In the textbook, they give you directions to making a pinhole camera using a shoe box that is just for viewing images on a screen inside the camera. I altered mine, and had the students alter theirs, to have a shutter over the pin hole lens as well as a cover over the viewfinder, to make the camera light tight for putting photo paper inside.</div>
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The directions in the textbook have you make a lens with a paper punch. What I (and my students) discovered through trial and error is that outside, this size lens lets in way too much light for longer exposure times (thus the dark image on the lower right corner). Inside, this lens size works relatively well.</div>
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Next, I made a different size lens, using a larger safety pin to poke a hole through the black paper. Outside, this size pin hole was perfect when taking a photo in indirect sunlight on a pretty bright day. Inside, however, in the fluorescent lighting, this size pin hole was not good at all, no matter how long I kept the pin hole open for.</div>
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The Davis textbook also gives you rubrics for their projects, so I used it for this project, but altered it a bit since we technically changed the format of the pin hole camera. I asked students to turn in 3 developed photographs with their pin hole camera with a brief reflection on the back of each image, telling me how long they kept their shutter open for, the size of their pin hole, and if there was too much or too little light.</div>
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We also used these images as a way to talk about the dark room chemicals. I am currently in the process of trying to figure out a better way to store the chemicals when not in use. As our chemicals stayed out over time, they didn't work as well, and the students noticed that. They also got some weird drips and sticky parts on their images, which meant they didn't fully submerge the image in the chemicals fast enough, or they didn't keep them in the stop bath / fixer long enough. Some have marks because they got stuck together while wet. <b>Here are some of the cameras and the images students captured, as well as what their cameras look like:</b></div>
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<i>This student bought a picture box from Walmart. It made it really easy to make a shutter for her lens using the little metal label holder! Her images turned out awesome, as well, and she learned that she needs to properly rinse the photo in each chemical so as not to get the chemical drips and such.</i></div>
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<i>This student had AMAZING images! They are literally perfect! I love how she made her shutter, too. She attached a popsicle stick to the shutter so she could slide it horizontally instead of vertically. She is the only student who did that!</i></div>
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<i>Another great turn out of images!</i></div>
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<i>She lost her third image, and even though I asked them to hand in three image, I accepted two as long as they could explain to me why their image was black, white, had drip marks, etc.</i></div>
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<i>This was from one of my exchange students. We have a bit of a language barrier but he is doing great and understanding things quickly!</i></div>
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All in all, this experience was a really awesome one for learning the dark room through trial and error. Students really learned how important it was to have a light-tight box and how the tiniest bit of light getting in through a crack could screw up their image. I assessed students on if their camera was light tight, had a viewfinder with a cover, lens with a cover, and a screen inside, as well as their three images and if they were able to develop at least one good, clear image. I had students write on the back of their images how long they exposed the camera lens for and then reflect on whether there was too much light, not enough, too small of a pin hole, too big, bad chemicals, etc.</div>
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Because of this simple project and experimentation, we have come up with a routine for the darkroom, figuring that we will have to alternate who gets to use the darkroom each class (five in, and five either developing film, taking photographs, or working on digital images on the computer). I only have three enlargers (two of which work, and one I have to look at and fix), and a shoddy set-up for developing, so not many people can work in there at once.</div>
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It has taken us almost four weeks, but I do believe we are in the home stretch and almost done making our DIY mannequins!</div>
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Needless to say, black is NOT a color of duct tape I would suggest using to make these. Maybe it's just my mind going to the gutter, but the black mannequin form I made just looks like it could be more suggestive, I guess is the word, than the silver ones. It also doesn't help that I'm a bit more busty than the rest of the girls in the class either...lol!</div>
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So, here is how we made our mannequin forms. I did TONS of research on Pinterest on the best way to go about doing this. There are tons of different suggestions out there...stuffing with pillow stuffing, newspaper, straight spray foam (and then peel the tape off and cover with fabric)... I know <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2013/11/meet-violetta-my-new-twin.html">Phyl over at There's a Dragon in My Art Room</a> made one a while back and wasn't too thrilled with her outcome, so I was a bit nervous at doing this. Just like I have the students do with the <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2014/02/studio-art-3-d-media-unit.html">packaging tape sculptures in Studio Art</a><span id="goog_1945871494"></span><span id="goog_1945871495"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a>, we wrapped their bodies, but this time in duct tape. Three out of the four students brought in old t-shirts to wear, as it seemed easier to me to just cut through the t-shirt AND duct tape together at the end, rather than try to miss the shirt. The fourth student elected to be wrapped in saran wrap first, which was fine. Either way worked well in the end.</div>
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<i>Just like Phyllis mentions in her post, I would HIGHLY recommend wearing a turtle neck underneath. The old shirts my girls brought in were tank tops and we still had to figure out a way to cover up their necks and shoulders, so we improvised with shopping bags. When my hubby helped me make mine, even though my hair was up, he still managed to get it stuck in the tape and yanked quite a bit out at the roots. :(</i></div>
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Once we cut everyone out of their tape casts, we taped up the back and stuffed them with newspaper. It's really truly best if you can do the newspaper right after you are out of the form, otherwise it'll go flat. In my form (in the top picture), I did spray foam first, filling from the neck and arms up to the chest. It literally took me about 4 cans just to do that, and I knew it was going to cost us booko-bucks if we didn't do something else to fill the insides. So, I had the girls stuff with newspaper.</div>
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<i>One students made her own neck with newspaper, and attached it with tape.</i></div>
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<i>Stuffed mannequins with newspaper!</i></div>
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Next was the fun, but tricky part. Spray foam is NOT fun if you get it on your hands! I highly suggest wearing gloves. Using an X-acto knfe, once all of the arms and necks were sealed up, students poked a hole in the arm pits and started filling around the newspaper, adjusting the nozzle to get a different angle every time some foam would start to leak out the hole. Wipe the hole off and apply a piece of tape over it to cover it up once you're done working in a certain spot. You've got to use one can all at once, so make sure you don't waste it by walking away for a minute or two. Once that foam starts to harden inside the long nozzle, you're done for with that can.</div>
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Here is what I called Part 1 of my mannequin form. In the torso, I did fill it with newspaper before filling around the outside with the spray foam. I bought a broom handle for $4 at my local hardware store, stuck it up the middle of the newspaper, and then spray foamed around it, letting my mannequin sit upside down to harden.</div>
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<i>Here's the funny part, and why I called this PART 1. Notice the third boob? Yeah, that's right. When you are putting the duct tape on, be sure to make a nice, <a href="http://so-sew-easy.com/diy-duct-tape-dress-form/">tight "X"</a> in between your ladies, especially if you have bigger ones. Use small pieces of tape to cover the boobies so that they aren't deformed or flat. LOL Also, on my back of my mannequin, I had a big "boil". Literally, it was some spray foam that must not have had any aerosol in it because it just liquefied and didn't harden. I poked a whole and literally squeezed a yellow, clear "puss" out of the back of my mannequin like Dr. Pimple Popper on Facebook! GROSS! (If you've never seen Dr. Pimple Popper, do NOT look her up if you don't like weird, gross, nasty, doctor videos...just don't.)</i></div>
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I used a hand saw to shave off the bottom where my foam was uneven, and then taped it up.</div>
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Today, my very awesome shop teacher and one of his wood-working students helped me make the bases for our mannequins. We measured out 2' wood planks and screwed them together in an "X". Next, we added a little leg to the bottom of each side of the top board, so it would be even and not wobble. We had to add a third layer to the boards so they would be thick enough to hold the mannequins without wobbling. Next class we will get the mannequins all onto their posts and then finally get them onto the stands, using shims to make sure they are tight in the holes.</div>
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I've decided that Part 2 of my finished mannequin is going to have to suffice. I decided to go at my mannequin with a hand saw to try and get rid of the third boob. I also sawed off a bit of a "tumor" my mannequin seemed to have on one side. Needless to say, I'm not the thinnest of people so I knew my mannequin wouldn't be either, but the added lumps didn't make me feel too great about myself. I'm a bit happier with it now, and I know if I keep trying to "fix" it, I'll never get it right, so it's time to just leave it alone.</div>
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So, here she is. My finished mannequin. My boobs are two different sizes, my stomach looks like it has an alien moving in it, but, that's all right. I am debating about heading to JoAnn's to find some stretchy fabric that I could now <a href="http://katastrophicdesign.blogspot.nl/2013/10/diy-dress-form-phase-3-padding-and-cover.html">cover it with</a> to maybe hide some of the imperfections that the shininess of the duct tape shows off, but we will see. (The link I posted is a super extensive way to cover a mannequin form...I've seen a few other ones floating around that are a bit simpler, but I couldn't find them to link to them in this post...go figure!) For now, she'll be good enough to hold my clothes for me while I pin the pieces together and sew! My student's mannequins have turned out a bit better than my tester mannequin did, but they're also smaller and less curvy, so they were a bit easier to cover with the duct tape.</div>
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<i>All in all, this mannequin cost ME about $40 to make. The cans of spray foam were $3 each and I used a total of 7. Now that I know that the newspaper is helpful to fill the inside, it wouldn't cost me as much if I were to make one again. Also, when buying duct tape, do NOT buy the Duct Tape brand of colored tape. It's SUPER expensive compared to the generic solid colored duct tape. Being the size 14 that I am, I used two rolls of the duct tape brand (which is only 20 yards) and that only did my waist and half of my top half. You need at least two solid layers of tape, and if you're curvy, you need more tape to get in the crevices of your girls and such. Buy a big roll of 60 yard generic stuff. It's the same price and you get more!</i></div>
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Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-87385000367040532012016-09-18T06:47:00.000-07:002016-09-18T06:47:32.576-07:00Visual Journals and Daily Bell RingersThis year, I have focused our first two weeks on really enforcing Visual Journal procedures. Yep, I said Visual Journals. I'm really trying to go away form using "sketchbook" as the term for them. From my three year experience teaching high school, I've noticed that my students really didn't seem to take the sketchbook seriously. Homework assignments were not done by most students, even the ones who were serious about art. They didn't feel an urgency to keep their sketchbooks in one piece, or even bring them to class daily (even when I allowed them to keep their sketchbooks in the room!).<br />
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So, this year, in my attempt to become more choice-based (a.k.a. T.A.B), I'm calling our sketchbooks "visual journals" and I'm trying to create more open ended, thought provoking assignments. So far, I really do think they are enjoying them, too!<br />
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Our first order of business was to create a bell ringer calendar of some sort in our visual journals. I have three classes I am using this bell ringer method with: Studio Art, Art 7 and Drawing & Painting.<br />
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Since Studio Art meets every day, I had the students create a monthly calendar that spreads across two pages. Just about everything we are doing in our Visual Journals must be a two-page spread. Why? To save paper and conserve space, but also because they will have to find <b>creative solutions</b> when marker bleeds through the paper to the other side!!<br />
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Each month, our bell ringer calendars will have a theme. I saw a post about this over the summer on the Art Teacher Facebook page and it's really what got this idea going in my head. When I attempted bell ringers in the past, it was always an art question...what are the 7 elements of art? Why do artists draw portraits? That kind of thing. With all of the interim testing and assessment we have to do, I've decided that I want to get as far away from "traditional" bell ringers and do something that is more fun and art based (thus moving towards choice based). So, this month for Studio Art, our bell ringers are all going to be daily drawings of texture or patterns. This coincides with our first unit, which is about doodling and zentangling.</div>
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<i>My visual journal is the one on the right. I used blue masking tape to create a border around the edges of mine. I'm hoping as we progress through the year, my students will get a little more creative each month when we draw out our calendars! The visual journal on the left is one of my students. When we started this, it was the first full week of school. I told the students at the end of each month, I would be grading their entire calendar as a whole, looking at creativity and problem solving they had to do to make sure each square was filled in with a completely different pattern. I told them that they are welcome to fill in the weekend blocks and the blocks during the week from before we began bell ringers, and she came in on Wednesday that week with all of these amazing little pattern/texture drawings!</i></div>
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<b>Monday:</b> Create a pattern or texture that fills the entire square.</div>
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<b>Tuesday:</b> Create a different pattern or texture than the one you drew yesterday.</div>
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<b>Wednesday:</b> Create a fuzzy pattern or texture.</div>
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<b>Thursday:</b> Choose a zentangle card from my "Yoga for the Brain" card decks and draw it.</div>
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<b>Friday:</b> Draw a string to break up the box and then fill it with tangles.</div>
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, we looked at the artist <a href="http://kerbyrosanes.com/">Kerby Rosanes</a> and his style of doodling, and then they learned about the zentangle process. So, the Thursday bell ringer coincided with our zentangle practice on Thursday, and then Friday's was a review as to how to complete a zentangle tile.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">These are my own bell ringer pages from the other two classes. For Drawing & Painting, which is on the left, the students created a condensed calendar on one page of their visual journals. I only see these students every other day. Again, they were told that they can fill in the other squares on their own time. Many students left the weekend off of their calendar so that they had bigger squares to draw in. For Drawing & Painting, their monthly theme for September is "Fall". On the first day, I told them to draw something that reminded them of fall. On the second day (which should have been Thursday...I already messed up my days... ;), I told them to draw something that reminds them of fall using food. I will do a post at the end of September with everyone's calendar pages when they are complete. This group is doing amazing things...some or working in just pencil, some in Sharpie, and some are experimenting with other drawing media, like colored pencils and oil pastels!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The bell ringer page on the right, is my page from Art 7. Again, I see these guys every other day. So, I counted how many days we would see each other for the rest of the month, and then had them split their page up into that many spaces. It just so happened that 7 was our lucky number, which is perfect because our first unit is the Elements of Art! They haven't caught on yet, but each day, I am asking them to fill a space with as many lines....shapes...textures...forms...etc. as they can. </span><br />
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<i>For my Art 7 page, I sprayed it with Liquitex Spray Paint. I learned about this stuff at the NYSATA conference and it is absolutely AMAZING! You can use it indoors and you don't have to be well ventilated. It doesn't have the aerosol chemicals and smells like traditional spray paint. It's also an acrylic paint, so it dries very quickly. I ordered two cans of each color this year for my graffiti unit for Art 7. This was my way of trying to cover up the bleed through from the previous page. You can see a little bit of bleed through from my Studio Art bell ringer calendar, but if I would have sprayed another layer, it would have been covered up completely. </i></div>
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Now, onto the Visual Journal assignments that are homework. Yes, I am giving homework this year, and so far, they seem pretty excited about the assignments! I have already mapped out the entire school year for all three classes. They will have three assignments due every five weeks. These assignments can be handed in early for a grade (so they have time to re-do, fix, adjust for a better grade), or handed in by the due date, but not late. I did them every five weeks with a hard due date because (A) I get exhausted from hunting students down to hand in late assignments and (B), the students already have the document with the entire year mapped out on the Google Classroom, which means at anytime, they can do the next assignment if they wish.<br />
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In class, I plan on allowing students to work on these visual journal assignments on Fridays only. I know that most students don't have the materials at home to do this. They can come down to my room during Study Hall or after school, but for those who are in sports, this can be difficult, so I'm doing my best to give a little. The first assignment, which we spent the first three days of class beginning was the cover design. Over summer, my daughter helped me design my cover. I collaged newspaper and white tissue paper over my cover. Then, I dropped colored India Ink on it and we used straws to blow the ink. I use black washi tape to "frame" the cover, and then pink washi tape to write "visual journal" on the front. I also took a thin sharpie and added some value lines to the visual journal tape.<br />
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The second visual journal assignment is a name design. This has to be on the inside of the front cover and on the front of the first page (two-page spread). Here is mine so far...it's not quite finished, but I've used Sharpie and colored pencil. I'll add ebony pencil shading to my name once I'm done zentangling it.</div>
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The third visual journal assignment that is due on the first five weeks is a Brain Illustration. I am asking students to take a <a href="http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/">right brain / left brain quiz</a> (there is also an app for this website that you can download to iPads) to determine how they think. I really like doing this as a beginning assignment because I'm hoping it will help students see that if they struggle with creativity, it might be because they are more left brained, and that they need to think about completing art projects using what they know. If they are really good at math, then maybe they need to take a more mathematical approach to the assignments, and as we progress through the school year, maybe they'll become more comfortable with art and a bit more creative as we go along. Mine is not finished, but I created my brain using a Gelli Plate (acrylic paint and a round sponge) and Sharpie. I had this awesome cork board scrapbook paper that I glued down (to cover up the bleed through), and then I framed the border with red masking tape and wrote the characteristics of each side of the brain on the corresponding border. From here, I was thinking about making little sketches of the things I do to fill up each side according to my percentages (my quiz said I am 67% right brained and 33% left brained) and make them look like they are pinned to the cork board.</div>
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So, that's a lot, right? It is, but I'm confident that if I give them their Friday's, they'll have plenty of time to succeed at this. Quite a few of the students are already done with their cover, and a few have even told me that they asked their parents if they could go buy some art supplies for at home to do their assignments. Score!<br />
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Here is what the visual journal document looks like to my students in their Google Classroom. I created a rubric based on the <a href="http://www.everyarteverychild.org/assessment/studiohabits.html">Studio Habits of Mind</a> and in my effort to move towards choice based art, I will be assessing all of their projects using these criteria. All of their visual journal assignments must be two-page spreads and they must use mixed media.<br />
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Welcome back NY! Today was officially my sixth day back with students...we had two days of staff development on Thursday and Friday before Labor Day, and then students on Tuesday. I can tell already that I am going to absolutely LOVE this school year!</div>
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First, have a look at my new darkroom! Well, it's not new...not at all...but this is the first time in AT LEAST four years that you can actually walk into this room and see the counters! Don't even ask me about the mess of chemicals I found spilled inside of those cabinets from incorrect storage methods... ;) Hopefully I'll be good to go with dark room photography for a few years! The chemicals are all pretty much expired, but the stop bath all seems fine, and I have powder developer and fixer in there, so hopefully that will all work. More on my first adventure in the dark room in my next blog post!</div>
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Here's a look at my room...before children arrived! I was allowed to purchase new stools, so I picked out these awesome art benches. They are a bit low and I was nervous my taller students would hate them, but everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, loves them! The students can't get over how comfortable they are AND no one is tipping over in them or pinching fingers off! Seriously! Those stools you see stacked up in the top right photo were all splitting in the seats and I had a kid pinch off the pad of his finger last year! We are now going to turn those stools into an art club project. ;)</div>
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In my elementary room, the shelving behind my chalkboards was for storing class projects. Each teacher had an individual box. In this room, I'm blessed to be able to use these shelves for resources. I even had TONS of fabulous art books donated to my room by my past superintendent! My goal this year is to make students use books more for research and inspiration than the internet. If the last three years have taught me anything about high school, it's that they think if it's on the internet, it's fair game for copying!</div>
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My side wall bulletin boards have now been split into six classes instead of 3 or 4...because I officially teacher six different classes this year! (Well, actually I teach 8, but I'll get to that in a minute...) I am using the bins as Visual Journal storage so that the students don't have to drag sketchbooks back and forth. So far, they seem pretty excited about their homework assignments for their classes and the bins haven't been too full after each class, but it is only the second week of school! </div>
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I used to have <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/08/christmas-in-august.html">exit slip posters</a> hanging on this cupboard next to the door. Last year, I kind of got lazy and didn't really use the exit slip, so I nixed those. Now, homework will be listed here, as well as on the Google Classroom. Each student in our district has a Gmail account. As I have learned, high school students don't like to write things down in planners to remember them, and they tend to be glued to their technology, so I'm going to hone in on that this year and utilize the digital classroom. So far, everyone has been very receptive to it and I think it's going to be successful!</div>
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Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Here is my schedule. I am sooooo happy with it! Not only am I down from 13 different preps to 8, but for once, I'm not overloaded every day! In my union, the contract specifies that teachers will have 6 teaching preps daily, one duty (study hall or ISS duty), one planning period, and one lunch...UNLESS they are a special area teacher or a teacher who has a lab that connects to their class (a.k.a. science and math). So, in the past, I've always had 7 teaching preps a day, a prep period, ISS duty, and a lunch. Now, I only have 7 classes two days a week, and the rest are all 6, and GASP! One day with 5!</div>
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My new cohort in my district is K-6 and special education. She sees Pre-K - 6th grade once a cycle still, and then works in the resource room for parts of her day. I still receive two classes from the elementary, both of which are the upper elementary special education classes. Generally, the students are anywhere from 3rd-6th grade in those two classes, and they are some of my favorite students!! </div>
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Other exciting news? I actually have a common lunch period with other teachers FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 7 YEARS...and I actually have the common study hall time this year too!</div>
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I've already got my next two post, well, actually three posts, planned, so be on the look out! My fashion design class is jumping right into making our own mannequins for sewing and pinning clothes to, and my Studio, Art 7, and Drawing & Painting classes are ALL loving the visual journal assignments that they have received as homework assignments. Yes, that's right. They are ENJOYING homework! More on that to come!</div>
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<b>Ok folks...I'm baaaaacck!!!</b> It seems like it's been FOREVER since I've last posted...though it's only been since February. Let me tell you, this last school year has been a whirlwind! There was so much that happened, and for the most part, it was ALL positive!!! I apologize profusely for the lack of posts over the school year. Being the only teacher and taking on all that I did really took all of my time. Between taking care of two classrooms, running my Jamberry business, and spending time with my family, blogging took to the back burner. I have received so many wonderful e-mails from fellow art teachers and advocates asking if I am done. I assure you I am not!,<br />
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However, I can tell you that my blog is going to shift in the age level that it is geared for. Yes...that's right. I said a SHIFT IN AGE LEVEL! This girl is now officially 7th-12th grade ONLY! Well, aside form getting to have two of the 12:1:1 classes from elementary (the 3rd-6th grade students...my favorites!). <br />
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How in the world did this happen? I still ask myself this on a daily basis and feel like it could be snatched from me in an instant. This year, we had a new superintendent. While we all tried to figure him out and went through our ups and downs with feeling out his views on everything, the state came in and let us know that we needed to spend a little of our reserve fund because guess what...whoops! We have too much! On top of our school receive more aid this year than in the past, it meant that we get to enjoy some growth in supplies and faculty!<br />
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A fellow teacher who is certified in special education is also art certified in my district, and she is coming back this year as part time elementary art and part time high school special ed. I am SOOOO excited to have someone to plan across the grade levels with and *GASP* align curriculum with!!! I haven't spoken those words within my own district in years!! This means only ONE CLASSROOM...one set of requisitions from here on out...one principal to report to...ahhhh!!!<br />
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Other amazing things that happened? I have FOUR electives next year (Photo 1, Fashion Design, Art History, and Drawing & Painting...on top of my Art 7 and Studio Art classes)...and three of which my students will be able to receive college credit from my alma mater, SUNY Potsdam, for a small fee. Oh, and you are also looking at the new adviser for the school yearbook! Eeek! I've been wanting to get into yearbook once I truly became vested in the high school and this year is the year! I will actually be co-adviser with another teacher who is elementary, so we will hopefully be able to balance everything beautifully. Plus, I know I am going to have a lot of cross-over with yearbook members and photography students in my Photo 1 class! <br />
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Let's see, what else? My district received a huge technology grant and the ART DEPARTMENT (eeek! I don't get tired of saying this!) is receiving 25 iPad Airs (64 GB) to share between the two classrooms! OMG you have no idea how excited I am about this! So excited that I am using internet shorthand...LOL!!! ;)<br />
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I know, I feel like I'm bragging! But seriously, after the last few years of doom and gloom in my district, I can't help it! Plus, I busted my butt last year to prove my worth and prove that I needed another art department member so I could push my high school students to achieve great things. (Did I mention that we may actually have 3 or 4 students who graduate next year that will pursue higher education in the visual arts??? That hasn't happened in YEARS! Like, seriously before my time at my district!) Thus the reason my lack of posting this last school year.<br />
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So, the point of all of this is, don't give up! I honestly was ready to change professions two years ago, when my posts on here started dwindling. I wasn't liking where my district was going, where the NYS was going with things, and I was very pessimistic that year. I trudged through, kept my thoughts optimistic, and kept my wits about me to prove that I am a valuable asset to my school, and guess what? It paid off!! <br />
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With that in mind, I may be changing the name of my blog in the future, since I am no longer teaching out of Room 104! I'm not Room 309..haha! But, I might try to go with a more generic name because let's face it. At any time, I could revert back to being K-12 and being the only art teacher in my small district again. But for now, the focus of this blog will be on middle school, high school, yearbook fun, art club fun, and my adventures into using TAB at the upper levels!<br />
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Ta ta for now!!<b> </b>Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-40736070805525346962016-02-01T06:43:00.002-08:002016-02-01T06:43:48.293-08:00Ceramics: Tea Sets and Masks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's taken us a while, but our first three projects in my ceramics electives have finally been finished up. We started off the year with pinch pot tea cups, moved to coil tea pots (to make a set), and then we did slab masks. This covered the three basic hand-building skills and of course, wedging and scoring and slipping.</div>
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I am doing my best to make my assignments as open ended as possible. I mentioned in my previous post that I am moving towards TAB in my elementary room, and I'm also experimenting with it a bit in the high school room. Now, the electives are a bit harder to leave open ended in terms of choice of material, so I am doing my best to make the assignments as open ended as possible. In the beginning, it was sort of hard to think up assignments that are open-ended, but it's getting easier and easier as we go.</div>
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To make our slab masks, I gave students a variety of mask forms to choose from to slump their slabs over. They were required to give their mask a theme, and to think about texture. The lion mask above? That right there is the first 100 I've ever given on an assignment! The pictures literally give it no justice. I'm loving that my students are thinking outside the box, too, with their surface decoration. Our district's mascot is a cougar, so one of my volleyball players made a cougar mask and meticulously glued in fishing twine to the whisker holes she made. It literally took her 2 1/2 class periods to hot glue those babies into the holes. So awesome!</div>
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I've got more to come after this! Our current two projects that are being finished up are ceramic shoes (life size!) and chia pets. :)</div>
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I promise I haven't left you! I've just been doing a little soul searching, if you want to call it that. In other words, I have been feeling like I'm in a rut and I'm not happy with the way I'm teaching, particularly in my elementary grade levels. So, with that being said, my next few posts are going to be about my adventures in TAB!! Yep, that's right. I'm working on transitioning a few elementary classes into choice based learning.</div>
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At the high school level, I feel as if the choice based learning comes a bit more naturally, though I still feel as if I need to loosen the reigns a bit. So, as I share some of our high school projects that we have completed this year so far, you'll hopefully notice me loosening up on requirements. </div>
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But, enough of that for now. These oil pastel self-portrait projects were completed by my Studio Art students (9th-12 graders), and it was something that really pushed the boundaries for them. We looked at artwork by various portrait artists, including VanGogh, Frida Kahlo, Kehinde Wiley, and Chuck Close, discussing how each artist used the self-portrait for a different reason. Using the grid method, I had students draw a "selfie" they had taken of themselves onto 16"x 20" paper.</div>
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Initially, I left the choice of material open ended for students, as long as they used color. I decided to use oil pastels to do my self portrait, something I've never done with oil pastels before. Many of the students decided to follow suite, seeing how I was challenging myself to do something new. I have to say I'm extremely happy with how these turned out!</div>
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<i>The 10 Looks of Mrs. Impey: "I left my sketchbook in my locker...can I go get it?"</i></div>
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<i>These students used colored pencils, or a combination of colored pencils and oil pastels.</i></div>
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I also used these drawing projects as my interim assessment for DDI. I don't know if any of you have to do Data Driven Instruction, but my fellow art teachers and I have been getting creative with how we give our assessments. Instead of doing tests or quizzes, like we had to do last year, we are making the artwork the assessment. Since we have been stressing observational drawing, this fit in perfectly as it fell in line with my curriculum but it also worked for our DDI rubric for the 2nd quarter. Less work for me and less work for my students!</div>
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<br />Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-5700590617065395712015-11-10T11:55:00.000-08:002015-11-10T11:55:38.264-08:00We're at it again...mural painting with art club!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'm super excited to say that we painting another mural this year...and it's HUGE!! We are painting the entire wall in our cafeteria to look like a Paris city street. I have a high school art club this year (with a few 7th and 8th graders mixed in) and we meet after school on Wednesdays for about an hour. It's a super short period of time and I feel like our progress is crawling, but I'm just excited to get to paint on a wall!! Here's our progress so far!</div>
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<i>We made sure to tape everything off so we didn't get in trouble for painting on the kick boards or the ceiling. ;)</i></div>
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<i>The fountain is a work in progress...and the students decided that the sky needs some work. They aren't happy with the clouds, and I fully support their decision. I'm trying to be as hands off as possible for this, showing students some basic techniques to paint and letting them do most of the work.</i></div>
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<br />Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-68246925159876650672015-10-27T11:53:00.001-07:002015-10-27T11:53:42.547-07:00Studio Art: Unit 1 Projects with Zentangles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This year I decided to start off my Studio Art students with zentangles. Yes, I know it's up for debate among art teachers because it's technically doodling, but I like the word! And, I have quite a few high strung students this year, so using the term "zen" and getting them to relax a bit worked perfectly for them. Whether you prefer to call it doodling, these zentangled alphabets turned out great. I love using these kinds of projects at the beginning of the year because (1) it's an easy way to cover the elements and principles in a way that's easy for students to understand and (2) it's very easy for students to be successful! </div>
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We started out by creating zentangled alphabets. We spent a day in the computer lab finding a font to use that would be wide enough to doodle in. Students were required to do at least 9 letters. Some simply chose alphabet letters whereas some did their names. I've done this project in the past and the students loved it as well...you can see our results <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/09/art-elective-zentangle-unit.html">here</a>.</div>
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<i><a href="http://www.thesmartteacher.com/exchange/resource/933/Zentangle-Alphabet"><span style="font-size: large;">You can also find my zentangle alphabet rubric and a zentangle packet I like to use on the SmartTeacher website.</span></a></i></div>
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For the final project in the first unit of Studio Art, students had to incorporate zentangles into a bigger picture. Now, I'm trying this year to really give students more choices. I don't know a lot about TAB but I'm slowly trying to incorporate more and more TAB techniques. Last year, I attempted a completely TAB assignment and it flopped big time in my Studio classes, so I came to the assumption that I can't just do TAB cold turkey, especially when a majority of the students in that class are there because they have to take it. So, each unit I do this year will have a final project that incorporates more choices.</div>
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The final zentangle project allowed students to choose a subject matter of choice, and I was quite pleased with most of the results!</div>
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<i>The student who did the zentangled Darth Vater did a lot of little composition thinking...he played around with the patterns he used on each side of the face. I was quite impressed with the thought he put into it! The student who did the flaming skull...well let me tell you he brought tears to my eyes with this project. When he was in 7th grade, he did absolutely nothing. He hated art. He struggled a bit during the first week or two of school to get into the swing of things in Studio Art, but once he made the decision to remove himself from the negative Nancy's in the class, he began to excel! He did such an awesome job blending and shading his colors, and he did it all on his own!</i></div>
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<i>The portrait on the left was created by one of our exchange students from Denmark. I find it fascinating that they don't get art in the upper grades (she hasn't had it since grade school), and yet she is so willing to learn and soak up the information I have to give! </i></div>
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<i>This is another artwork from an exchange student. She is from South Korea.</i></div>
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<i>This student is going to Boces for criminal justice. She wishes to be a dispatcher. Despite her nature to complain and be negative, we figured out something she could do for her final project that actually meant something to her and she somewhat enjoyed doing! Score one for Mrs. Impey. ;)</i></div>
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Here is my rubric and project sheet from the final zentangle project.</div>
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My sixth graders have just finished up their first project, which was, of course, cave art! When talking about curriculum for my elementary grade levels, sixth grade and kindergarten are really the only two levels where my projects tend to remain the same each year, and it really doesn't bother me either! (Ask me about my high school curriculum? It's ALWAYS changing!)</div>
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Don't get me wrong, I have yet to do cave paintings the same way more than once, but the premise is there. This year, students received a huge piece of brown kraft paper. We tore off the edges, crinkled up the paper, and then took it outside to create our rocks. We used neutral chalk pastels to rub over the crinkled paper, and then used a paper towel to rub and blend the pastels together.</div>
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<i>I HIGHLY suggest doing this process outside, as the chalk pastels tend to get really dusty.</i> Interested in seeing a previous years technique for creating our rocks? <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/11/heres-little-catch-up-and-some-current.html">We have used tempera on tag board in the past as well.</a></div>
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Now, here comes the fun part, where I kind of changed it up for my students a bit. Once again, we did make our own egg yolk tempera paint. <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/10/6th-grade-prehistoric-cave-art.html">If you're interested in seeing specifically how I do it with them, you can check out one of my blog posts from a previous year here.</a> Here's the adaption for this project from this year! I did the best I could to turn my room into a cave!! I pulled the blinds, covered up the cracks with black paper, and did my best to turn it into complete darkness. Then? I put a bon fire on my smartboard as their light source for painting!</div>
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These pictures aren't that great at showing how dark it was, but it was dark enough! It was a bit comical too, as students started complaining that there was too much light coming through the windows and that this wouldn't work, but once all the lights were off and they had to work with just the fire out the smartboard, they found it was pretty difficult to see to paint accurately.</div>
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This was a super great experience for them and I definitely plan on incorporating the bon fire next year as well! There was a lot of conversation about the actual project and the way they were painting. Many noticed that their paintings got a bit better as their eyes adjusted to the darkness.</div>
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As for the bon fire video, it's pretty easy to find them on YouTube! The video I used was actually an 8 hour video of a bonfire. This is the specific video I used below. It's nice and quiet, nothing distracting in the background...just the calming sounds of a bon fire crackling away!</div>
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My goal next year is to actually use real charcoal, dirt and berries to create the paint. I never seem to plan well enough in advance but I will next year!!</div>
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I'm still here!!! I promise!!! The start of this year has been extremely hectic and I'm only now getting my feet under me!! We are in the midst of a building project and I was unable to access either of my classrooms ALL SUMMER!! We also didn't have power, lights or electricity for our first day back of staff development!! It was horrible for my organized "OCD" to have to do everything on the first two days of staff development. Not to mention, I wasn't able to get much lesson planning done at home with an almost two-year-old toddler!</div>
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Ironically, at the end of the last school year, I tore EVERYTHING down off of my walls in both rooms. I guess I anticipated that the construction project would be a bit more organized...I guessed wrong. ;) None the less, my <a href="http://www.artroom104.blogspot.com/search/label/No-No%20Board">No-No Board</a> is gone this year and it has been replaced with my rules (in the elementary room). <a href="http://www.bulletinboardstoremember.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-08-24T18:17:00-07:00&max-results=7">I kind of stole some of the wording from Mr. E. :-D</a></div>
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My supply bin organization looks a bit differently this year. I found these cute, mini-supply totes at Target in the dollar section, plus some pencil pails and rainbow pails. I decided to use smaller bins to hold the supplies so that students don't have everything at their tables all at once. In particular, I was thinking of those 1st graders and Kindergartners who tend to be distracted by the markers and want to use them, even though they aren't supposed to be. I also made some simple, laminated place mats and taped them down to the counters, and I included a picture on the window for how the supplies should look like when they are returned.</div>
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My go-to bulletin boards for the first two weeks of school are minions. Yup, straight from the art teacher's Facebook group. The kids loved it!</div>
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For K-2, we traced, colored and cut out our hand prints for the first day of art class and I created this <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/263601384416757987/">bulletin board</a>. We, of course, returned to school BEFORE Labor Day this year, so we had school on Thursday and Friday, no school on Monday, and then resumed classes on Tuesday. Essentially, my first week and a half was just rules and hand prints with the younger students and we have only now really started to dive into our projects.</div>
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Last year I shared a bit about using sketchbooks in 6th grade, as well as my high school classes, and this year I'm increasing that usage a lot more. We are using sketchbooks in grades 3-6, as well as in Art 7, Studio Art, my Printmaking elective and my Ceramics elective. All is going well so far!<br /><br />Speaking of my classes, I'd like to give you a glance at my ridiculous schedule this year. I sort of did this to myself a bit this year by taking on an extra class. My union contract states we teach for 6 periods, have a prep, a lunch, and a duty. Well, at the end of the year last year, things got changed around and classes shortened a bit to add a 9th period into the schedule to create a common study hall time in the high school. </div>
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I was beginning to have such high requests for electives that I wanted to offer two. (Secretly, I'm hoping that they will be willing to hire a part-time, elementary teacher for next year to free me up for more high school classes...we shall see how that pans out!) My numbers have increased drastically in the high school classes since I started teaching them two years ago, so fingers crossed!!</div>
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You'll also notice that I have THREE 12:1:1 classes this year...we added another teacher in our district. AND, we added a third Kindergarten and third 1st grade teacher...those classes come combined to special, which really stinks for numbers and the amount of space I have in my room.</div>
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Needless to say, with the increase in numbers in our district, this is another reason I think hiring a party time teacher will be feasible for next year...hopefully! Oh, and I'm doing art club this year AND I'm the VP for our teacher's union!! That's it...I stop the ball there. I'm not putting myself out there anymore this year. If I do, remind me to say, "No!" I'm still working my Jamberry business at home, and I plan on posting here once a week. I know I won't be able to afford more then that, so one post a week is my goal!!</div>
Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-88719575324571843432015-03-25T12:19:00.001-07:002015-03-25T12:21:02.876-07:00Sculpture Elective: Stop-Animation / Claymation<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My sculpture class has been up to some extremely in-depth projects lately. We recently completed some stop-animation projects that took FOREVER to complete...but they were totally worth it! Students designed their productions from start to finish, planning the characters, backdrop, props, camera angles, and story-line. They worked in groups as small as 2 and as large as 5, with one person acting as the "director".</div>
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The students sculpted their figures using aluminum wire as a skeleton. They wrapped tin foil around the skeletons to create more bulk on the body, and then used Crayola modeling clay to cover the body. Modeling clay doesn't dry out, so it's perfect for this project!</div>
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Next, they had to design their backdrop and props. I allowed the students to use anything from the classroom, including cardboard, foam, modeling clay, glitter, paint, oil pastels, tissue paper, etc. I had an iPad, Kindle Fire HDX, and my Canon Rebel camera on hand for students to take photographs with. We uploaded them into Windows Movie Maker, added an appropriate title page and credits page, and then shortened all of the photos to be approximately .3 seconds in length.</div>
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<i>I love how these students incorporated the words with their project. </i></div>
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On the bulletin board in front of my computer, I have some art works hanging that I did when I was in high school. I've been noticing that my supply of mat board scraps has been on the rise since we've been mating more artwork this year, and I hate to waste them. They're usually too small to use to frame an artwork but I hate throwing them out. So, I decided to give students a bit of a challenging assignment for a sketchbook assignment...reverse value drawings, or highlight drawings, as some call them! </div>
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I have two drawings on display that I did in high school and the students have always complimented them, so I decided to give them the assignment for homework. I gave each student a piece of scrap black mat board and a charcoal pencil. I told them that they could use a black and white photograph to help them do the drawing, but the photo could not be a logo. Since this concept is sometimes hard for people to grasp, I eased up on my normal "no copying" rule.</div>
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<i>These two students created these images without copying! I was so excited to get these two! The first one that says "Camden", was done all on her own, and the second artist drew his own guitar. Such a great perception of depth with his!</i></div>
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<i>This student didn't exactly follow the "no logo" rule...but she did have amazing gradation.</i></div>
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I'm actually thinking that next year, I may incorporate this project as one of the drawing unit projects instead of a sketchbook assignment. Most of the students really enjoyed the challenge of having to think backwards!</div>
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Well, I can officially say that this 5-year teacher has made a rookie mistake...she has spread herself too thin this year. Between the business of being a K-12 teacher in one building, being on a scheduling committee, the negotiations team for our new contract, being on a report card committee to revamp report card comments, working the extended day program after school, AND starting a new business venture this year, I have reached a point where I have taken on too much. Unfortunately, my blog has suffered because of it. :(</div>
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These are some of the cubist superheroes that my Studio Art classes completed this year. We finished these in the middle of February, and since done a printmaking project, soon to come. You can check out the objectives of this project, which are the same as last year, <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/10/studio-art-2-d-media-unit-painting-if.html">on this previous post</a>. Again, we used the coarse pumice and modeling mediums to create actual texture on our canvas. </div>
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Similar to last year, the students that were extremely successful at this project were the students who had a hard time with the realist projects, and the students who favor the realism projects, struggled with this project. Next year, I'm going to change up the subject matter for this project...I just haven't figured out what it will be yet.</div>
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This project took us about a total of two weeks from start to finish. Students chose an area of the still life below to draw. It was set up in the middle of my room for the entire time...in that time period, I lost a fake banana and had two bottles break during clean up, of all times. :(</div>
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As we started the process of painting, we painted the background first, using cool colors because they recede. Next, I had them choose a neutral color for the ground/cloth, and lastly they were encouraged to use warm colors for the bottles. </div>
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<i>This student did an AMAZING job, and it breaks my heart because she has such low self-esteem about it. :( It was a struggle to get her to do this all on her own, but she did it! She totally has her own painting style, but I don't think she feels comfortable enough to embrace it yet.</i></div>
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<i>This student has struggled all year but he did what I would consider a great job, based on his past projects! I'm so proud of some of these guys...they really got into the painting! This student is so psyched about our next project...I can't wait to see what he does then!</i></div>
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Again, I had students mat their own artworks too. They are getting so much better at this! It makes me proud, and them, to have their artwork framed in such a way. I've decided that I must make it a priority to make sure I have enough mat board for a school year, at least on the high school end. It's going to make my art show look that much more professional too. :)</div>
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What really surprised me about this project, is that the students asked why we didn't do a black and white drawing of the still life first! Wait, what? I figured they would get bored drawing and then painting the same thing...but now this idea is on my radar for next year! I think they saw my projects from high school, which I have hanging above my computer, and liked the idea.</div>
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Our current and last project of the painting unit is <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/search/label/cubist%20superheroes">the cubist superhero paintings in acrylic</a>. We have just started those so expect a post about them in a week or two. :)</div>
Mrs. Impeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022104364845020710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2596420938752384378.post-73049584274736946042015-01-29T12:23:00.000-08:002015-01-29T12:23:03.035-08:00Oil Pastel Jungle AnimalsI LOVE this project! It's definitely a staple in my room now for 5th graders to do this project. Their classroom teachers love it (because they draw the animal they research for class) and the students love it because they tend to be so successful with the oil pastels! I even had one of the teachers ask me if she could have a box or two of oil pastels for the students to draw with in their spare time in their classroom! :)<br />
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We did this project <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2014/08/5th-grade-oil-pastel-jungle-animals.html">last year</a>, and it didn't really change at all. I printed off a picture of each student's animal for them to use as a resource to draw from. I demonstrated how to blend oil pastels together and how to create different textures, such as rock, leaf, water, and fur. We also talk about using complementary colors to create value, not just black and white.<br />
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Here are some of this year's results! LOVE LOVE LOVE!</div>
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There were so many students who normally turn in rushed, sloppy artwork that did amazing! I have to admit, I'm one of those bloggers who tends to only upload and share the good work...and this time around, there are student's artwork posted that often never get considered!</div>
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For our first project in our painting unit, I wanted to start out with something simple and fun, so we created abstract expressionism watercolor paintings. The students had a blast with these paintings, and I think it shows!</div>
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We started off by using Kandinsky as our bell ringer artist to talk about abstract expressionism and emotion in an artwork.</div>
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Then, we took two days in our sketchbooks to learn 12 different watercolor techniques. Students masked off 12 squares in the textbook and I walked them through the techniques one at a time. Students then carefully peeled off their masking tape and labeled each square with the technique, writing a brief description as to how to do the technique as well.</div>
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<b><u>The techniques we covered were</u></b>:</div>
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Wet on wet wash</div>
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Wet on dry way</div>
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Graded wash</div>
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Tissue paper</div>
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Color/Water Dropping</div>
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Wax resist</div>
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Glaze</div>
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Here are some of their finished products. The requirements of the project were that students had to use color, line and shape to create an emotion or feeling. They had to use at least five of the different watercolor techniques in their paintings, and they could not paint something representational. Students painted three different paintings and then choose the one they felt showed the most emotion to mat and hand in.</div>
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Whew! I'm finally starting to get things caught up on Artsonia, in my grade book, and on my blog! It's been a New Year's resolution to keep on top of my grading this year, and so far so good! These triptych drawings were the last thing students finished up right before our Christmas break. It was also the final project in the <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2014/11/studio-art-micography-portraits.html">drawing unit</a>.</div>
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For this project, students had to bring in a candy bar (or similar type of food item) from home. At this point, we had <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2014/10/more-artist-bell-ringers-sketchbook-use.html">practiced with different drawing media in our sketchbooks</a>, so students were allowed to draw with any medium they wanted. The only stipulation was that one drawing had to be full (true) color, one had to be black and white, and the last could be done however they wanted.</div>
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On a side note, while we did these drawings, I used pop artist Wayne Thiebaud as their bell ringer artist in their sketchbooks, since the subject matter students were using was similar to his.</div>
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Most students stuck with drawing pencil, ebony pencil and colored pencil, but a few ventured into oil pastels as well. We haven't actually framed these with mat board yet (I cheated and just photographed them on top of the mat board), but right before the art show, we are going to have a big mating day to frame artwork for the art show. Students have mated two projects themselves so far, so they should be pros by the end of the year!</div>
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My 1st graders finished up these awesome winter landscapes right before we left for the winter break. I really like introducing the concept of depth to 1st grade because I think they can actually understand it and work with it in simpler forms. In the past, I've done <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2013/10/1st-grade-oil-pastel-pumpkin-patch.html">pumpkin landscapes with depth</a> and a <a href="http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2014/05/1st-grade-northern-lights.html">Northern Lights landscape</a>, so I decided to combine the two for this year's depth landscape!</div>
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This project took two days and about 10 minutes in a third class to complete. On the first day, I showed students a video about how the Northern Lights are created (of which this fits really well into their Common Core Listening & Learning strand about Astronomy!). We then got down to work drawing our landscape out.</div>
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Students used black oil pastel on black paper. I first asked them to draw a big snowman, just the body, towards the bottom edge of their paper, and then a horizon line behind it. I posed the question, "If you wanted to draw a snowman in the background, how would you do it?" Most of them understood that it had to be drawn smaller, but I showed them how to draw it smaller and farther up on their paper. Again, I had them draw a horizon line behind that snowman. Then, I asked, "What if you wanted to draw a snowman in between those two snowmen? In the middle-ground?" It was like a light-bulk turned on above their heads! </div>
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We added the mountains next, and then used three colors to create the Northern lights in the sky. This all happened on day 1.</div>
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On day 2, we talked about how we were going to color all the snow. If snowmen are white, and the snow on the ground is white, I explained that they would have to do something a little different to the snow so they wouldn't blend together. Luckily, there was snow on the ground outside the windows so we could look at how the shadows from the building look blue in the snow!</div>
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After the snow was colored, the mountains and the details on the snowmen were the last things left!</div>
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