Teacher blogs are useful resources when designing a class. They can be referenced for idea themes, techniques, styles, and more. Teacher blogs are a way of sharing instruction techniques to better the world of education. They are also useful for the teacher creating the blogs in that the curriculum will be logged and revised.
The teaching palette
This blog highlights the review of how basic lines are used to create an animal (in this case a zebra), the knowledge of what Complementary Colors are, the exploration of animals in art, the design of a zebra in their choice of poses, painting using a Complementary color pair, and exploring the homophones compliment and complement.
I chose this blog because is seemed like a fun way to teach complimentary colors. Its one thing to tell children what they are and which colors are complimentary, but when you can visually put them into a composition it is easier to remember.
I chose this blog because is seemed like a fun way to teach complimentary colors. Its one thing to tell children what they are and which colors are complimentary, but when you can visually put them into a composition it is easier to remember.
The teaching palette
Egyptian Sarcophagus
This blog is a creative way to teach art history and Egyptian sculpture. It is a paper mached juice box sculpture that is created with a paint, construction paper, sharpies, paste, newspapers, gold paint markers and gloss spray. The coffin is made to have a hinge and be opened. This activity is for kids in grades 6 and up, being that the more advanced the kids are, the more strong their projects become.
This blog is very descriptive in its explanation and it provides a fun and creative activity for students. Students also obtain the opportunity for cross curricular learning and art history reference.
This blog is a creative way to teach art history and Egyptian sculpture. It is a paper mached juice box sculpture that is created with a paint, construction paper, sharpies, paste, newspapers, gold paint markers and gloss spray. The coffin is made to have a hinge and be opened. This activity is for kids in grades 6 and up, being that the more advanced the kids are, the more strong their projects become.
This blog is very descriptive in its explanation and it provides a fun and creative activity for students. Students also obtain the opportunity for cross curricular learning and art history reference.
art is basic
All About Me Crayon
“All About Me Crayons” start by reading the book The Day Crayons Quit. In this activity, the students trace a crayon template and draw the wavy black lines of the wrapper. They choose their favorite color for the crayon. Next, the kids write their name on the crayon, draw a self-portrait and add pictures of things that they liked or told about them.
This project is good for lower elementary grade school kids because its an easy and engaging activity. Tying in a story to this activity is a great quality to have with a lesson plan. Having children write about themselves is a good way for them to get to know each other and express their interests.
“All About Me Crayons” start by reading the book The Day Crayons Quit. In this activity, the students trace a crayon template and draw the wavy black lines of the wrapper. They choose their favorite color for the crayon. Next, the kids write their name on the crayon, draw a self-portrait and add pictures of things that they liked or told about them.
This project is good for lower elementary grade school kids because its an easy and engaging activity. Tying in a story to this activity is a great quality to have with a lesson plan. Having children write about themselves is a good way for them to get to know each other and express their interests.
school arts:digital
Loop by Loop
This project was influenced by the Pittsburgh "Knit the Bridge" project near the Andy Warhol Museum. By going to this event and seeing innovative and contemporary ways of crocheting, the author of this article decided to incorporate knitting in her classroom. She showed her students examples of artists who crochet objects including Agata Oleksiak and Magda Sayeg. Working with the ideas of public art, community, and collaboration, the teacher taught the class methods of crocheting and encouraged them to cover items or locations throughout the school. However, after a majority vote they decided to "yarn bomb" a person.
This blog stuck out because it is in a magazine, and because Pittsburgh is home to me. The "Knit the Bridge" event seems like an awesome way to display art in a city while advertising a nearby museum. This activity would obviously be for middle school students or older, and may take place over a long period of time considering each student needs to learn crocheting techniques before making a masterpiece.
This project was influenced by the Pittsburgh "Knit the Bridge" project near the Andy Warhol Museum. By going to this event and seeing innovative and contemporary ways of crocheting, the author of this article decided to incorporate knitting in her classroom. She showed her students examples of artists who crochet objects including Agata Oleksiak and Magda Sayeg. Working with the ideas of public art, community, and collaboration, the teacher taught the class methods of crocheting and encouraged them to cover items or locations throughout the school. However, after a majority vote they decided to "yarn bomb" a person.
This blog stuck out because it is in a magazine, and because Pittsburgh is home to me. The "Knit the Bridge" event seems like an awesome way to display art in a city while advertising a nearby museum. This activity would obviously be for middle school students or older, and may take place over a long period of time considering each student needs to learn crocheting techniques before making a masterpiece.
School arts: digital
Spirited Animals
The author of this article references Sue Coccia, an artist who paints animal totems. Her school curriculum stressed drawing from nature, so she incorporated Coccia's work by having students choose and sketch an animal using contour lines, and carefully creating a design for inside the animal. The design illustrated the student's own interpretation of what the spirit of the animal would look like as a design. Intricate line patterns were drawn inside the animals and eventually they add warm or cool watercolors inside their animal, and then the opposite for the outside.
These animals are very aesthetically interesting, and they incorporate a cultural reference. You could continue this lesson sculpturally if you were to actually make small totem poll models, or an abstracted version of them. This seems like a fun activity.
The author of this article references Sue Coccia, an artist who paints animal totems. Her school curriculum stressed drawing from nature, so she incorporated Coccia's work by having students choose and sketch an animal using contour lines, and carefully creating a design for inside the animal. The design illustrated the student's own interpretation of what the spirit of the animal would look like as a design. Intricate line patterns were drawn inside the animals and eventually they add warm or cool watercolors inside their animal, and then the opposite for the outside.
These animals are very aesthetically interesting, and they incorporate a cultural reference. You could continue this lesson sculpturally if you were to actually make small totem poll models, or an abstracted version of them. This seems like a fun activity.