We Don't Like "Projects" So I recently quit my job and started my own school with the support of a local media company, the second largest school district in Iowa, and a groundswell of community interest. Our philosophy boils down to a fairly liberal project-based learning environment. As I began the marketing push to enroll students, I uncovered some frankly stunning assumptions that many students have about learning: The word "project" is not a happy word. When I say project-based learning, most students grimace as they imagine prescribed PowerPoints.If a teacher doesn't plan it, it's not learning.If there isn't a test, it wasn't real.Their personal interests cannot inform their learning.
I'm not complaining -- in fact, these assumptions are the reason that I struck out on my own in the first place -- but I was flat-out surprised by their ubiquity. Let’s break each assumption down. 1. In short, we seem to have students who believe that projects are for assessment purposes only. 2. 3. 4. Login - TeachersPayTeachers.com. Chalk.
It rained yesterday. Not just rained but really rained. A lot. Mucho. Tornado warnings and all. And so today, when we came back to school, even though the murals were under cover, they still were washed away. This mural was basically washed away by the water. And they worked and worked and pretty soon the pictures were back up. Typetop14. The requirements for this project limited the number of colors to two plus black white and the letters to one word. After that, they were free to create their typography art anyway they chose. The original Carrie Underwood portrait met the two color requirement but then Kate started playing with different gradients for the background. I posted just three of the many she completed to show how each gradient gave the portrait such a difference appearance.
Ipad. Art Three class had a chance to stop by the Media Center last week and try their hand at the iPad app 123D Creature. A little tricky to learn but once you get the hang of it, a really fun 3D program that let's the user created creatures almost like using clay. The app has three components; creating, sculpting and painting. Each section allows the user to add more and more detail. Creature above in the painting stage. Same creature with added lighting effects. Look how completely different this creature looks from both the creature above and below. Lessons.digital arts. Overman. Art Ads – 2013. Postitstop14. The one project by far that I receive the most requests asking, "How'd you do that? " is the Post It Note Mural. In this lesson you will find images and a description of the process we used to complete these projects.
There is also a link to a video that demonstrates the process. The entire process is available for free! Later you can use the same lesson to create a mosaic out of any material including Skittles, Jelly Beans,or color swatches. We even used it to create a mosaic of the Mona Lisa using over 2,000 balloons! No matter what the media, the basic concept is the same. This step by step instruction will walk you through the entire process I've just posted two other lesson plans! How to Create Light Graffiti This project merges technology with stencils and the concept of positive and negative space into one fun and effective lesson.
Light graffiti is just a starting point. How to Create 3D Anamorphosis Drawings! 3D drawings are just a starting point. Monalloon. What would you do with 190 art One Students and 1,840 balloons? Make a giant mosaic of the Mona Lisa... silly.This project took all day. All three art classes, Ms Brokke, Ms Bate and Mr. Sands, worked all day long to create the mosaic. I think this photo, showing the trailer and cars in the parking lot gives a better idea of just how large this work of art is. 40 feet across and 46 feet down. Special thanks to Kate who was this week's blogger and tweeter. If you read a tweet or post about this project, it was Kate behind the keyboard. Shadowstop14. Did your teacher ever give you a box of junk and a strong light source and tell you to make some art? I'm sure he or she did. It happens all the time. In fact, it happened today in Sands Art One class. Here are the results...
They create a giant monster and... The monster is looming over a small child's bed. I like this tree. it is part of... This recreation of the movie poster for E.T. Cool how the bottles taped together make ET and the boy on the bike. They are making an amusement park including.. A rollercoaster and a ferris wheel. This bird is flying in the sky of clouds. Working on a water scene. We didn't start the fire.
A B movie about a guy walking a plank... Aliens abducting an innocent victim. Space, the final frontier... and the final shadow art of the day. NCArtsEducation - home. Photoshop Brush Portraits. This week in computer art we explored brushes. The objective of this project was to create a portrait that included a photo with a strong light source and then incorporate brushes, gradients and glows in some way.. We took advantage of our new green screen to capture the photos. Below, taking the photo for the image that was created, above. Forcedtop14. The only theme given was Perspective... what that meant and how it would be interpreted was up to the students.
The range of both solutions and materials varied greatly. Here are some of the final solutions.. Anamorphosis drawing of a ballet shoes.. This was drawn while looking through her camera phone in order to create the right perspective. All the images above are of the same drawing. Lou Reed in and out of perspective. This student decided to create an acrylic painting of a beach house using 1 point linear perspective.
Life Is Now Here.. Another example of localized perspective.. when viewed from any other angle this work appears to be nothing more than random shapes and colors. The I is made from pages taken from the Ayn Rand's book Anthem. Robbie is still working on his 5 point perspective project..... Digital Animation. Stencilstop14. This week in Art One we are working on Muti-colored Self Portrait Stencils (see above). We've done stencils before but always using only one cut out. This year we are a little ambitious going for three or four different cuts out to complete the portraits. I've never done this before ... the students have never done this before... so its all new to everybody and nobody is really sure if it will even work..
But I think we are off to a good start. Check out the process so far... We started the adventure up in the computer lab by importing a photograph into Photoshop. Next, we projected the resulting image onto tag board. All the fun comes when each piece of tag board needs to have the negative space cut away from it. The final step takes very little time, especially compared to the rest of the process. Above you see the second layer being applied. Here you see the work with two layers sprayed. This is the same piece with three layers sprayed. This is the final version after spraying. Unit Study Planning.pdf.