Paper Smashe

Paper Smashe Slides

 

Artists Choose

 

PRESENTING

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Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.

RESPONDING

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Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.

Cardboard Sculpture

 

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Animal Habitat

 

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

Have you ever heard someone say,

"Stop and smell the roses?"

It means slow down. and notice the little things. 

When you observe, you take time to pay careful attention to the world around you.  

Artists get inspiration from things they observe in the world. 
Artists learn see detail by practicing drawing from observation.

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.

Imagination

Observation

ACTIVITY: 

1. DRAW A BUG FROM IMAGINATION OR MEMORY ON ONE SIDE OF YOUR PAPER.
2. 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.

Share/Reflect:

The detail that captured my imagination was…

I never noticed before that…

I practiced my ability to observe closely by…

Foil Person

Sometimes artists don't want to draw or paint a person, they want to make a sculpture of a person

They would make realistic sculptures of people out of marble.

Terracotta Army

8,000 soldiers, 670 horses

Degas

The Little 14 year old dancer

Giacometti

Marisol

Gormley

The Angel of the North

We can explore some ways to create sculptures

Can you make a character from a story? 

What will the action be?

Will the character have a setting, or what event will be shown.

Could it be a historical figure?