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The Color Thesaurus – Ingrid's Notes. I love to collect words.

The Color Thesaurus – Ingrid's Notes

Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety. One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow. Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red.

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, Bansky is “a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.” The fact that he merits a Wikipedia article is an indication of how famous Bansky has become. His worked has inspired many an artist to take their work to the streets. Nick Stern, a photographer, has even made a series of photographs mimicking his work. Fame hasn’t made him any easier to track down as his real identity remains a mystery. Click here for more » INK is a UK-based, multi-award winning digital production studio that combines imagination and cutting edge digital technology to create beautifully crafted images for advertisements, production companies, and designers. Jean-Yves Lemoigne is the go-to guy if you want fun and clever ads that will stick in your consumer’s minds for a long time.

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Artist/Naturalist Andy Goldsworthy

Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, in the U.S. and many others Goldsworthy regards his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. "I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns.

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Yes, You Can Teach and Assess Creativity!

Creativity fosters deeper learning, builds confidence and creates a student ready for college and career. However, many teachers don't know how to implement the teaching and assessment of creativity in their classrooms. While we may have the tools to teach and assess content, creativity is another matter, especially if we want to be intentional about teaching it as a 21st-century skill.

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The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong. EmailEmail Malaysian illustrator Tang Yau Hoong cleverly uses negative space to create some fascinating illustrations that make you stop and think for a while.

The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong

His works look simple, yet are complicated little puzzles you can’t not love solving them! If you like them, you can even buy creative t-shirts with his negative space illustrations and give your friends headaches when they try to figure out the meaning behind them. Websites: tangyauhoong.com Facebook / Tumblr / Flickr / Twitter. Focusing on the Negative Space. Hi you guys.

Focusing on the Negative Space

Ricardo and Patricia here to give you your weekly update of what goes on in our graphic design class. To start off the week, we constructed view finders to help us identify the negative spaces around positive shapes. We had to draw figures around us, cut them out to focus on the negatives areas to finally figure out, they are as important that the positive areas of a picture. KinderArt - Free Art Lessons and Lesson Plans, Projects and Art Education Information for Toddlers, Elementary, Middle and Secondary School. Wire - Nylon Stocking Sculpture. Tie-Dye Looking T-Shirts.

This was a big hit today in my afterschool class today – a pseudo tie dying project but without all the unsafe ingredients. My sample had just a couple of circles on it, but these creative students filled their shirts with lots of color, I love it!! 1. I found cheap white t-shirts at my local Dollar Tree store. Art teaching. The Artist's Toolkit. AccessArt: Visual Arts Teaching, Learning & Practice. Tate Kids . Create . Art of the Garden. Resources for Art Teachers, Art Lessons for All. Welcome to helenhudspith.com - free DT teaching resources. Art and design. The current national curriculum programmes of study for art and design at key stages 1 and 2 have been disapplied with effect from 1 September 2013 and are no longer statutory. This means that schools are free to develop their own curricula for art and design that best meet the needs of their pupils, in preparation for the introduction of the new national curriculum from September 2014.

Further details are available via the link on this page. Art and design remains a compulsory national curriculum subject at key stages 1 to 3. New statutory programmes of study will be introduced from September 2014. The disapplied programmes of study for art and design at key stages 1 and 2, and the attainment target level descriptions, are accessible from the links on these pages.

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