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Virtual Learning Day - January 10, 2025 - K, 1, 2

 

Puppets are fun to make and great for imaginative play. 

You can make puppets many ways! 

First, you will need to decide what kind of puppet you want to make. 

• What kind of materials will you use?
• Is it an animal, human, machine, or creature?

You can name your puppet, and think of how you might like to use your puppet.

Some suggestions: 

Your puppet can sing a song to your family!

Your puppet can tell jokes!

You can use your puppet to read to your younger sibling, or a pet! 

You can create several puppets, plan, and perform a puppet show!

Other Links:

Paper Puppets-Red Ted Art video on how to make easy paper puppets

Cardboard Robot puppets - The Artful Parent

Virtual Learning Day - January 10, 2025

 

Telling Stories with Photography

 You can practice photography at home by creating an image using a Chromebook, phone, tablet, or digital camera. 

A photograph (photo) is a picture you take with a camera. 

Photographers take pictures, or images that paint a picture, tell a story, or record an event.

photo by Sydney J.

Toy: Lego Minifigure
Location: on the kitchen counter in the sugar bowl

What is the story? I love baking shows and my minifigure is baking!

Most of us have taken a picture. It's pretty easy—just point and shoot! Pointing is when you can see what you are taking a picture of and the area surrounding your subject. 

But composing a picture with an artist's eye takes more thought. Answer these questions...

1. What kind of props or items do you want to photograph.

Lego minifigures (like my kids chose)
LOL dolls
Pokemon toys
Littlest Pet Shop
Small stuffed animals
Action figures

Your pet (if they will sit still)

Fruit with eyes glued on
what else could you choose

2. What kind of story do you want to tell? 
Location is very important. In the photo below, the minifigure is standing behind the fishtank, on the table. Notice the minifig is wearing diving gear. My son stood in front of the aquarium and took the picture. He took several pictures and chose the best one to save. 

photo by Seth 

Toy: lego minifigure
Location: behind the fishtank
What is the story? 
This photo is about his minifigure
 looking at fish in the ocean .















3. What will the setting be?

That area is just as important as your actual subject, just like in drawing or painting, your background is as important to your work as the subject-especially if you are telling a story. 

photo by Seth 

Toy: lego minifigure
Location: in the dining room plant
What is the story? This photo is about me hiking in the rainforest.

Think about your interests when creating a story. If you enjoy cooking, maybe it could be a cooking show scene. If you enjoy sports, could you tell a story with a piece of sports equipment or a trophy you won. You can save your favorite photograph and email it to me. I can't wait to see what you create!

photo by Seth 

Toy: Bionacle and Lego Minifigure
Location: on the table by the salt lamp
What is the story? This photo is a battle scene

photo by Sydney 

Toy: lego minifigure
Location: in the laundry basket
What is the story? This photo is about me hiking in the snowy mountains.

Mini Sketchbook

 

Lettering

 

Pattern Snakes

 

Pattern Snake

 

Watercolor Pencils

 

Marker Painting

  Marker Painting

• Properties of Water-Soluble vs Permanent markers. How can both types of markers be used to an artist's advantage in the same artwork?
  
  
• Creating a value scale with marker painting
  
  
• Review Color Mixing
  
  
• Work on one section at a time-if you don't want colors to mix, work on opposite sides of art so it can dry before painting adjacent areas.
  
  
  • Draw in pencil
  • Trace in marker
  • Paint your shapes dragging the outline color in to fill up the shapes
  
  
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Animal Habitats

 

The Bull by Franz Marc

The Monarch Of The Glen (1851) By Sir Edwin Landseer

Morning In A Pine Forest (1889) By Ivan Shishkin And Konstantin Savitsky

Peacock, Hen, And Male Pheasant In A Landscape (C. 1750s) By Tobias Stranover

"Ducks" (c. 1880-1904) is a painting by Dutch artist Willem Maris.

Fox Hunt (1893) is a painting by American artist Winslow Homer.

Monkey Frieze by Franz Marc

Henri Rousseau's Animal Paintings

Mandrill in the Jungle

Tiger Peeking Out From Grass

Artist Statement

 

Sentence Starters

My artwork is about… I expressed my feelings by… One thing that is unique about my work is…
I tried something new when I… Something surprising that happened was…
I imagined my idea by… My idea changed when…
The hardest part was… I solved a problem by…
I observed… I was inspired by… One thing I want you to notice is…
I practiced new art skills when I…
I collaborated when I…
One thing I think I did great at is… One reason this is a strong piece of work is… Next time I could challenge myself to…

Alma Thomas - Eclipse

  Alma Thomas was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator.   In Washington D.C. where she worked and lived, she would view her colorful garden through the windowpanes.  Her colorful paintings evoke the happiness she felt painting. 

 

Alma Thomas

Artist Alma Thomas was inspired by the 1970 solar eclipse visible from Washington, DC. With its dark blue core and radiating rings of color, “The Eclipse,” 1970, acrylic on canvas.
Alma Thomas painted a picture depicting a solar eclipse. She made art about the feelings she had about things she saw in nature.

Did you watch the eclipse? 

Artists respond to events and make art about them...

Deborah Velasquez

Angela Lane

Ashley Zelinskie

and so can you!

What did you see yesterday? 

Who were you with? 

How can you make a piece of art about this experience?

Solar Eclipse  2024