Once again...

A year has gone by and I have neglected this. I am going to try and stay on top of this now that I have an iPhone. We shall see!

Modigiliani Inspired Portraits

This was a great end of the year project and the results were awesome! I found that my students that normally do not excel in art were coming up with these awesome projects!

Lego Egyptian Figures

To do a little cross curricular lesson with students and their social studies unit we did Egyptian Art Legos. We discussed proportion. When then looked at the canon of proportions in Egyptian Art and compared it to the consistent proportion of lego figures. We also went into detail about how Legos have been created based on key parts and events of history. I even made one of those goofy videos with my face. The students loved it. I gave them the opportunity to bring in Lego men/women to draw. As a class we created our own canon of proportions for the Lego figure.


 The following are student examples: 

60's Style Lyrical Posters

This was a crosscurricular lesson with English 8 students. The students had a inresidence poet come and it talk to them about the 60's era. Students viewed several examples of the culture during that time. Each student created several poems with the poet.

Creating the art work:
Students discussed the lyrcis of that time and choose their favorite lyric. Including images, patterns, and colors that were popular. Following are some student examples.

Mosiac Portraits

This project was with 8th graders. Materials used were cut up gift cards, glue and a modified photography using Photoshops' cut out filter.

Key to success in this project was to make sure that students cut pieces smaller and left space. Sometimes having to cut down pieces to a space.

In the Tiki-Tiki-Tiki Room

My students are loving this project. As they finish up their projects are turning out SPECTACULAR! Their favorite is probably the crumpling of their work into a ball and then painting over it with black tempera. I saw this lesson on an awesome blog and I am sad to say I do not remember it. Here are some of their finished pieces.

As students finished up they added a written piece about their Tiki's prediction. The myth was that the tiki's could smell things before they occurred.

Expressive Charles Burchfield Landscapes

We learned about Charles Burchfield because conveniently the Burchfield Nature Center is down the street from our school. I modified this lessons for different classes due to their abilities and so on. I thought this one was a great use of color and I loved how it turned out.