“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
― Robert Henri
And so here are results of the inevitable process.
The following album is a collection of selected student works in progress and completed. We always have a great time in the studio/classroom. At times, it feels like walking through mud ... but when we arrive we all celebrate , sometimes quietly, the challenges that we faced and moved confidently through.
The students in the 1st grade have created some beautiful weaving using cardboard and jute. After the students completed their weaving they added in 'crazy stuff' to dress up the weaving.The 'crazy stuff' was from a box of lace, wire, plastic things to weave into their weft--- also I asked the students to bring in dryer lint form home which we collected in a box for everyone to use--- we had a wonderful time!
The students in the 2nd grade art classes explored and created art workswith the learning goal of the genre of Portraitsin visual arts. The children began their exploration by looking at painting and sculptures of portraiturewhile discussing the questions of
What can an artwork tell you about the artist?
In what ways does art express emotion?
We followed our looking at and talking about art with creating a wonderful catalog of mapping facial proportions as well as eyes, mouths, and noses.The students created portraits of ‘someone’ that is thinking, yelling, and laughing singing and so on…. Then the portraits were transferred on to over head projector film, and painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of the drawing. Stunning!!!!!
Listed are the Jefferson County Visual Arts Curriculum Alignment Understandings, Know and Do the students mastered while creating their Portraits
Understandings
Students will understand that…
tArtist of many cultures create artworks of themselves and others.
nArtists use elements and principles in portraits.
oArtists follow rules when drawing a face.
vPortraits can express emotion.
Students will know:
tA portrait is an artwork of a particular person.
tA self-portrait is when an artist creates a portrait of him/her self.
nArt vocabulary:
oShape - organic
oBalance - symmetrical, asymmetrical
oPattern
oBasic proportions or “rules” of a face.
vHow to illustrate different facial expressions.
Students will be able to…
tCompare and contrast portraits from various artists and cultures.
nDraw symmetrical shapes and create a pattern.
nParticipate in an informal critique using shape and balance vocabulary.
oDraw a face using appropriate shapes and placement of features.
Once at a lecture, the artists said they try to honor all ideas that come to mind ----- I was thinking about these birds when I woke up--- flying wrapped in filigree.
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