mrspicasso's art room Art Lessons For Kids | Inspiration for parents, teachers and anyone who loves teaching art The Incredible Art Department | Art Education Art and Lesson Plans Welcome to the lesson plans and project ideas section of the Art-Rageous website! Latest updates are listed on the home page of the site, and if you're looking for something in particular, try entering a word in the onsite search engine. Purchases made by clicking through advertisers' links help to offset my webhosting costs and allow me to purchase new resource materials for my classes. Speaking of webhosting, I've been with Dreamhost.com since 2000 and highly recommend them. If you'd like to start your own website, please click here to get a $50 discount on a year of hosting! As you scroll through the lesson plans below, I think you'll see why I say that my students constantly amaze me.
Eye Centre.Nature Christopher W. Tyler Smith-Kettlewell Eye Reseach Institute, San Francisco Purpose Although the eyes are a key feature of facial portraits, compositional rules for the placement of the eyes relative to the frame seem to be lacking. Fig. 1 To illustrate the degree to which an eye tends to be set on the center vertical in portraits, twelve classic portraits from the past five centuries were selected for reproduction. Fig. 2. Hypotheses Compositional principles that may be hypothesized as the basis for eye placement: Fig. 3a. Fig.3b.Golden Section hypotheses. Fig. 3c. Fig. 3d. Results Fig. 4. A second question is how the eyes are distributed over the two-dimensional space of the canvas. of only + 5% of the frame width (full curve; second eyes omitted for clarity). Fig. 5. Conclusion The eye centering with an accuracy of ~1 eye width is barely mentioned in art criticism, suggesting that unconscious functions operate in our aesthetic judgements.
is re-thinking the tools On the very first day of class, these students were given 48 hours with the following instructions: Make something with a box of 64 crayons. Ellis Gregory, creating whimsical function They had to use the crayons and the wrappers. They could choose whether to use the crayon box and they were allowed to use glue, a platform/base and other tools (scissors, knife, etc.) What could they not do? As a teacher on the first day of class, with a group of students I don't yet know, what was I looking for? Who is going to be willing to work under a deadline? Mary Grace Woodruff, creating a pulverized mosaic Kate Beebe, creating functional drink coasters and holder box Shelley Neimeyer, turning it inside-out Justin De Leon, creating a melting pot situation Sarah Barrow, creating a microwaved styrofoam cup wax drink Kristen Weaver, creating melted paintings Leah Young, creating a three-dimensional color wheel, of sorts Genny Salvatore, creating a flower bowl Shasta Phillips, creating a roller coaster
Exploring Linear Perspective Linear perspective is a mathematical system for creating the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface. The system originated in Florence, Italy in the early 1400s. The artist and architect Brunelleschi demonstrated its principles, but another architect and writer, Leon Battista Alberti was first to write down rules of linear perspective for artists to follow. Leonardo da Vinci probably learned Alberti's system while serving as an apprentice to the artist Verrocchio in Florence. To use linear perspective an artist must first imagine the picture surface as an "open window" through which to see the painted world. Straight lines are then drawn on the canvas to represent the horizon and "visual rays" connecting the viewer's eye to a point in the distance. The horizon line runs across the canvas at the eye level of the viewer. The vanishing point should be located near the center of the horizon line. Click on the buttons to check your answers.
Art Is Messy learningIT - Mac Related ICT, Art & Creativity Info for Teachers & Students Dawn's Brain – The adventures of a high school web design and graphic design teacher. » Blog Archive » One-point perspective worksheets Below are worksheets I created in Adobe Illustrator for teaching one-point perspective. Walk your students through the first two (boxes and room.) Show them the techniques used since the Renaissance to create a realistic illusion of space and form. First introduce them to the terms “horizon line”, “vanishing point” and “orthogonal line”. Horizon Line: The line in a perspective drawing where the sky meets the ground. It also represents the viewer’s eye level. A couple of technique details, along with further resources: When drawing the back edges of the boxes in the first worksheet, the artist lines the ruler up with a front edge, then slides the ruler toward the vanishing point a little ways, without twisting the ruler in any way. Once you walk the students through the first two worksheets below, they should be able to do the others on their own with a little guidance. Going through all four worksheets took me two class periods of 50 minutes each.
The Arts - The Original Flipped Classroom | Education Closet Have you been a part of the Flipped Classroom discussion yet? If not, I can promise that it is coming to a school near you. It’s an exciting and thought-provoking discussion, but it’s not necessarily new. It’s just new to a lot of educators. What’s the big deal? A while back, I was working on one of my “money-making Mondays” to try and find some grant funding or foundational funding for a project I’m working on for my school district. No. And for a while, this is what I thought that the “Flipped Classroom” was referring to. The next big idea Well, it turns out that I did some further research on this flipped classroom concept. Guess what? The arts have been implementing this flipped “integrated” classroom model forever. Now whether or not that French woman will ever understand all of this is yet to be seen.
Art Education 2.0 - connecting art educators around the globe aRTs Roundtable 21: Artsy Webby Sites Standard Podcast Hide Player This week on the aRTs Roundtable we talk about “Artsy” websites that we use in and out of our classrooms. Many are interactive or creative websites that engage the arty students to create, compose, and think using the arts. Show Host: Carol Broos Show contributors: Tricia Fuglestad, Jen Kolze and Brenda Muench Show wiki: edreach.us Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- artsroundtable@edreach.us 121 views, 2 today What do you think? Art and stuff Tutorials Stars Tutorial: There's a lot of manual labor in store here (if moving a pen a round in a repetitive motion can be called that) but also a bunch of tips and tricks how to both speed up the process of drawing a sky full of stars and how to make it all look so much fancier. Water Tutorial: Contains three different tutorials consisting of five simple steps each: how to draw flowing water, rain and surface reflections. For using the tutorial it is recommended that you already are at least moderately familiar with the digital art program of your choice, as this tutorial does not provide any specific information on tool or program settings. Most of the tutorials below already have a few years on their backs, and I'm not completely happy with everything presented in them anymore. From left to right: Fur tutorialGrass, scales and rocks tutorialClouds tutorialLightning, snow and fire tutorial A walkthrough of an older piece, "Two of a kind"