Thursday, November 30, 2023
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Artists Choose
PRESENTING
Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.
RESPONDING
Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.
Monday, November 27, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Interactive Museum
How can an exhibit be interactive?
6 tips
1. Attention
Eye-catching, inviting, intriguing
2. Inclusion
Can everyone interact with it?
Will a kindergartener know what to do?
3. Shared experience
Can more than one person use it at the same time?
4. Multimedia
Could there be two or more of your senses engaged?
We often think of visual and auditory (what we can see, what we can hear) but could you include smell, taste or touch?
5. Ease of use
Is it easy to understand how to interact with the exhibit?
6. Clarity
Less is more! Ask yourself what is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING you want the viewer to know or experience.
Brainstorming:
Change the size! Make it super big or super tiny
Costumes, for you or something a viewer can try on
Make and take - a quick simple craft
Play - Since you are exploring history act it out - Barter or trade, shop in a store, cook something, make something, wear something, learn a game from that time period
Artists Observe
Observe-Drawing Bugs
Artists get inspiration from things they observe in the world.
Artists learn see detail by practicing drawing from observation.
- It can be an animal, a person, a landscape , or a still life.
- Observational drawing is drawing what you see in front of you as realistically, and as true to life as possible.
- When we look at an object that we are going to draw look carefully, noticing shapes, light, shadow, colors, textures and details.
- DRAW A BUG FROM IMAGINATION OR MEMORY ON ONE SIDE OF YOUR PAPER.
- DRAW THE INSECT MODEL IN DETAIL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR PAPER.
QUESTIONS: DO YOU FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE DRAWING FROM YOUR IMAGINATION OR FROM OBSERVATION? EXPLAIN WHY.
WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD DRAW FROM IMAGINATION AND OBSERVATION? GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Foil Person
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023
Draw a person using basic shapes
Drawing a Person Using Basic Shapes
basic geometric shapes such as circles, rectangles, ovals and triangles when drawing people.
Hip Hop Exhibit
Link to Canva
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFzh5unYkk/mlJ5SEA8rSZA6-YpCFvnow/view?utm_content=DAFzh5unYkk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor
If I was an animal
If I was an animal...
Think about some characteristics that you have. What words describe you?
Talkative? Shy? Funny? Strong? Loyal?
Could the words that describe you, also describe an animal?
What would that animal be?
Talkative?
Shy?
Funny?
Strong?
Loyal?
Powerpoint If I were an animal
Is there an animal you have a CONNECTION with?
If you were an animal, what would you want to be?
Why do you want to be this animal?
Could you use your animal match as inspiration for artwork?
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Revolutionary War
The Battle of Lexington
From artist's perspectives.
Photography was not invented until decades later, so there are no photographs of the Battle of Lexington. The first depiction of the battle was created by two young militiamen, Ralph Earl and Amos Doolittle in 1775. Neither witnessed the battle. They visited the site a few weeks later, spoke with participants, and created a sketch of the battle.
What do you notice about this picture?
Who appears to be winning? Why do you think that?
Why did Earl and Doolittle depict the battle in this way?
Cyrus A. Swett,
1830
What has changed in this version?
Why the change? Why did Swett depict the militia shooting at the British?
Remember Earl and Doolittle chose to depict the Lexington militiamen as innocent victims of British tyranny in order to win people to the patriot cause.
Would an artist working in 1830 have felt the same motivation? If not, what might have motivated him to depict the battle as he did?
Hammatt Billings
1859
What do these images, created over 123 years, have in common?
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