Exploring Mediums

Mediums

Charcoal

Water Color

The Art of Education -- 7 Deceptively Simple Watercolor Techniques that Will Amaze your Students

Pencil

Basic Pencil Techniques (PDF)

A Sketchbook about Drawing (PDF) (please preview this parent before sharing it with your child).

  

Folk Art

Menzen Painted Wood Boxes

Folk Art Revealed (PDF)

Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Sign Lesson Plan

Folk Art Landscapes Lesson Plan

Assignments

1. Continue to explore folk art (even the music!)
2. How would you illustrate your favorite song lyrics or quote?  
3. Continue to observe fonts and lettering around you -- find your favorite one that is on cereal box or a food box you can cut.  Cut it out and bring it in to share with the class.  We will be using it for our art project next week.  
4. If you forgot your book this week, please bring it next week.  And see if you can identify the type of medium that was used.  
5. Choose your favorite Disney animated movie.  Be ready to share it with the class.
6. Choose a cartoon and bring it in to class
7. Have fun creating!  I love seeing your creations and your work!!!

Coop Art Class Day 1

Overview of Today

Creativity Activity

I drew this simple line and half circle on the board and asked the students to come up with a list of as many things as they could.  Some ideas the students had were: half a watermelon;  a cat looking over a fence; planet; sunrise; sunset; rock; fishing rod; bow and arrow.  After doing this in class all I could do this afternoon was keep seeing things that it could have been -- a bush on a curb; a cat paw reaching onto a table; half of an earphone....  It was a fun way to see how our brains work and how having others can help us be creative.   

Discussion of Things that Limit Artists' Creativity

1. Fear
2. Rules/Instructions
3. Climate
4. Materials/Resources
5. Self

Material Distribution

1. pencil (two kinds)
2. pen
3. erasers 

Please make sure to bring your materials back to class.  

Here is a photo of the book I recommend for the class.  The paper is thick enough for the projects that we'll be doing.

Artwork

Materials: Blue Construction Paper, various lengths of jute and sisal string, glue, sponge paintbrush, pencil

Instructions: Investigate lines with these materials.  Please don't cut the string.  

I'll post some photos of the work next week.  

Assignments

Research a Folk Artist

• Folk Art Revealed
• Folk Art Museum
• Worcester Art Museum
• Smithsonian

Bring in a Children's Book depicting artwork you like.  

• The 20 Most Beautiful Children's Books of All Time
• Art of the Picture Book
• The Caldecott Medal

Handouts

• Line Drawing Techniques
• Alphabet 100 Project
• Introducing Line -- Famous Artists

Please practice.  Use a page or two in your books to practice -- if you want to divide your page into four or six or eight sections that may give you a smaller workspace, but feel free to fill up a page with lines!  I'm excited to see your artwork!