Silhouette Collage

 

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Part 1:Brief Overview
Students will make a collage of their interests within a cut out silhouette of their own head.

Part 2: Sketchbook Activity & Transition

Students will draw or list things that they feel are a pictorial description of their interests and feelings

Part 3: Opening: Looking at and Talking about an Artist’s Image

Students will look at emotional collages/collages meant to convey the personal thoughts or interests of the artist

Part 4: Exploring Materials, Tools, and Techniques

Students will look through magazines and collect images that they relate to.

Part 5: Posing the Open-Ended Problem and Providing the Criteria

Today I want you to: Make a silhouette collage of your interests and emotions

Part 6: Generating Ideas, Making Preliminary Plans

Students will use a projected light on the wall to trace the profile of their face, they can do this in pairs or in groups.  The profile will need to be larger than their actual head.  They will then start moving collage pieces around within the lines of their profile to create an image.

Part 7: Creating the Final Product

Students will glue down their images, cutting them if needed to make them fit.  They will then cut out their profile and glue it to a larger piece of paper in a contrasting color for hanging.  Students will need to write a short explanation about why they chose their different images.

Pop Culture Collage Painting

Outcome: Students will create a self-portrait using their face and pop-culture references to that they relate to.

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 Pre-Lesson: Students will practice painting self-portraits in the week leading up to this activity.  They can start with black and then can use colors as they choose later in their paintings.  Students should end the week with at least 3 self-portraits that show a progress in their understanding of how to paint a self-portrait.  These do not need to be high quality finished pieces.  

Lesson:  Students will paint their self-portrait.  They will need to choose colors that they can use either to convey the details of their portrait or that they relate to personally.  

They will then start collecting and attaching pop-culture or other images cut from magazines, or if necessary printed off the internet.  They will attach these images to their portrait using rubber cement to obtain a clean finish. They will need to choose at least one physical feature that will not be uncovered, it is up to the student to choose if they are accenting this feature due to dislike or because they favor it.

They will need to write an explanation/artist's statement when they are finished that explains their color choices and image choices.  

Assessment: 

Students must explain their concepts in their artist statement

Their work should reflect what their artist statement says

Students should have a completed painting with at least one feature showing on their face and multiple collage references with an explanation for each one.

Claymation Activity

Students will create a one minute claymation sequence.  They will team up together and will create a stop motion video using clay.  Each team will use their smart phone or tablet with a stop motion app.  They will have three weeks to complete their animation.  They will need to design a storyboard with sketches, draw character sketches, create their clay figures and then shoot their video.

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Weaving part 3

Basket weaving

Students will weave baskets using rope or reeds.  They will use their understanding of weaving from the two previous weaving activities.  Students will then weave a basket.  They will complete 3 baskets using multiple colors.  They will have to research different basket weaving techniques used by native american tribes and will attempt to use 3 different techniques for their three baskets.

Weaving Part 1

Students will learn the basics of weaving.

They will be given a loom made of tag board/found wood with notches cut into the ends.  They will wind yarn around the notches to create the loom.  They will then learn how to weave the yarn in between the strings.  After they have successfully completed four tight lines of woven fabric they can then choose their own fabric or yarn if they have access to any.  Students must complete a foot of woven fabric made of their chosen materials.

Weaving Part 2

Paper Weaving
This is meant as a secondary weaving activity.  Students can learn to weave using something with less give that requires more coordination.
Roll Newspaper into rolls
Weave newspaper together into basket shape
Start with the bottom of the basket
Roll different shapes of newspaper rolls
Weave newspaper back and forth

Materials:
Newspaper
Painter's Tape

Drawing Practice

Objectives: Students will practice drawing from observation and drawing from imagination
This lesson is meant to be drawn from a specific theme, in this case the theme is invention.

Light bulb

Pre-Lesson Discussion
Slide Show

Observation Light-bulb
Students will have a selection of lightbulbs on a table to choose from and to draw.   Students must draw from observation and not add any imagined details.  Students should try to focus on the shadows and reflections they can see through the glass of the lightbulbs.

Materials:
Paper
Pencils
Erasers
Light-bulbs


Imagined Light-bulb

Students will draw imagined future lightbulbs.  They don't have to be possible.  Their drawings should show the lightbulb as well as what the lightbulb can do.  Students should be able to show an understanding of what their lightbulb can do in their picture.

Origami Lesson

This lesson can last at least one month if wanted, or can be a week long unit

Pre-Lessons leading up to Paper Crane week:
Learn how to fold a basic shape: Not sure what that would be yet
Learn how to fold a star box


Paper Crane lesson:
(See PowerPoint for this information in an applicable way)

  

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1. History of Paper Cranes
1. Importance of the Crane
2. Sadako
2. Images of Paper Cranes
3. Discussion of different things that class can do with paper crane activity
1. Decorate the school
1. collaboration
2. Make 1000 for some reason
1. personal project
3. Use paper cranes to construct paper sculpture
1. Personal or Collaboration
4. Plasti-dip cranes
5. Cut Paper
4. Crane Tutorial

Follow up lessons:

Students continue to experiment with origami and paper folding, can continue on Crane Veign and create art using the cranes as the material

OR

Students can continue to expand their origami experience.

If they choose this option they must incorporate another art technique into their origami: photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics etc.

Design a Board Book

Taking inspiration from books like the Little Miss Austen collection, design a board book that is based on a classic novel.  Choose a novel from a list and read it.  Locate the key points/characters that would be translatable to a children's novel.  Gather inspiration images from online of illustrations of different scenes from the book and create your own images.  You can use the images and alter them so that they are yours or you can draw your own.

This project can be altered for a younger age.  Using one story, as the teacher find key characters and descriptions of the characters.  Assign each student a character and have them draw them and write a little explanation for their reasons for how they look.  As a class create the story of the book, it doesn't have to follow the plot of the original story.

Printmaking Brand

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Students will create their brand symbol and will trace it onto Styrofoam.  They will cut it out of the styrofoam and add the details and they will mount it on a small wooden block.  This will be used to stamp their works in the future and will be used as a watermark for their art labels.  Students will need to provide an explanation for their symbolism.

Rock Groups

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Materials:
Rocks
Paint
Sketches


Open discussion.  Show inspiration images, talk about what groups the students want to draw, research images.  Cityscapes, groups of people, animals etc.  Have students sketch inspiration images.  Go on a rock hunt outside to collect rocks that fit the project.  Have students paint their individual rocks with their images.  Let dry and arrange rocks onto base and glue in place.

Houses Line

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Objectives:
Students create houses in different sizes and shapes on a board

Materials:
Recycled Materials:

• boards
• foil
• recycled paper
• lids/bottlecaps
• cardboard

Students will be asked to sketch a block of houses.  They can draw from their neighborhood or they can find neighborhoods online.  They can also draw completely from their imagination.  They need to decide what their houses will be shaped like, look like and how many they want to make.  They will be required to make no less than 3.  

They will then start creating their houses.  They will draw their house shapes onto cardboard and cut them out.  They can then decorate them however they want in order to create the images they made on their sketches.  They will need to construct and glue their houses and paint their boards if they'd like, within two class periods.  The following class period they will need to figure out ho to attach their houses to their boards.  They can experiment with scraps of cardboard to figure out how the pieces should be attached.

Paint Mixing Activity

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Paint Mixing Activity

This is a small intro course for the first day of class

Objectives:

• To teach students about color mixing
• To allow students to explore paint on textured paper

Materials

• Small pieces of paper, size of index cards
• Different color combinations of tempera (?) paint on papers
• Red+yellow, blue+red, Yellow+blue etc.
• Paint brushes
• Water

This is a basic activity meant to allow new students to explore paint mixing.  Give students the cards with the paint dots on them and ask them to spread the color around and experiment.  Each student should try to mix the colors together and spread the colors out individually to cover the paper and to see how the paints mix.  Set cards aside to dry and return them to the students with the color combinations written on the back.  These will be used as reference cards for the kids in the future of the class.

Sequential Stories Collaboration Story

Sequential Stories

Read several sequential books

Suggestions:

by Steve Metzger

by Wong Herbert Yee

-Discuss with students what happens in each book.

What happened at the beginning?

How did each animal react?

-Start talking to students about how they will write one together

Start with a list of catalysts

Could be a seasonal thing: leaf, snow, etc.

Pick a location for the story to take place

City, farm, school

Think about who or what would be in this location

Ask the students what could happen if _______ happened?

-Write story and then ask students to draw different pictures of each scene

Could split kids up by volunteering or have teacher do it

Create a class book that tells the story and shows their pictures of each scene


Materials:
white paper
colored pencils
Watercolor
Pencils
Construction paper to use as backing for white paper, needs to be bigger than white paper