Graffiti in Perspective

Students will create a city wall in 2-point perspective with a message of positivity graffitied on the wall.

Here are some examples:

Here is the how to video:

This lesson idea comes from Mini Matisse.

Here is my art piece.

This website will help with fonts.

Here are a few examples too.

What Do You Say, America?

Students will create an art piece integrating a quote about America.

What does America mean to you?  Find a quote that shares your thoughts and feelings about America.  Draw a U.S. flag and write your quote in some fun lettering. Be creative and add some drawings showing what you think of when you think about America.  Next we will trace in sharpie and add some water color.  Beautiful!!

America Playlist

Oh the Places we'll go in The USA

Students will be using silhouettes of cities in the USA to create their own place they want to go piece.

Positive and Negative with Notan

Students will use Notan design to illustrate positive and negative space.

Start with this video.

Landforms and Vocabulary

Students will be using landform vocabulary to form the lines of a landscape piece.

This link gives us more information and photographs of these landforms.

Here is our list of landforms.

Optical Illusion Color Wheel

We will be using our mad math skills (fractions) to create this optical illusion (using line) that doubles as a color wheel we can use later. Plus it's a little Seussical too.

 

So get out your pencils and ruler and let's get to work. Here's the process:

Start by drawing a dot somewhere in the middle of your paper.  Then draw 3 lines dividing th space as equally as you can into thirds.

Pop Quiz!  We need to have 12 slices on our color wheel.  How many pieces do we need to divide each of our thirds into in order to get 12 slices?  

Next, divide each of those sections in half.

Then each of those sections in half!  Look how quickly we multiplied our slices.

Now we are going to VERY LIGHTLYwrite our color words in on our slices.  I hope you have practiced your ROYGBV!  The easiest way to get these in the right places is to start with ROYGBV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).  Those are our primary and secondary colors.  Do know which are primary and which are secondary?  Skip a slice in between each one.  Next we will fill in those tertiary colors. The name of tertiary colors always starts with the primary color name.

Now we are going to add some curved lines that will create our optical illusion.  First draw a curve in each of the ROYGBV slices that arches out.

Now draw a curve that arches in on the tertiary slices.  Make sure they all connect.

Now we do it again!  Curve out on ROYGBIV.

Curve in on the tertiary!  Make sure they connect!

Repeat until your whole paper is full.  Notice that some of the last ones won't go all the way around because we are working on a rectangle instead of a square.

NOW ON TO COLOR!

Watch this short video to see how we add color to help give us that optical illusion.  HINT:  The shading is the most important part!

Romero Britto Portraits

There is a video at the end of this post to help you get started!

Our objectives or goals for this lesson are:

*I will create a self portrait in the style of Romero Britto focusing on bold black lines and vibrant or colorful patterns. 

*I will illustrate how I hope to grow, what I hope to learn or what makes me happy in my portrait. 

First we create 4 idea sketches.  Some are closer up (just my face) and others are further away (my whole body). I have thought about the background as well. Take only 3-4 minutes per idea sketch. Once I have 4 ideas, I will choose one to enlarge or make bigger for my final piece. 

I chose the one in the bottom right corner to make enlarge. I made sure that all of my shapes were nic and big to give me lots of opportunity to add in my colorful patterns and still be able to trace all my pencil lines in black. 

I wanted to break up my background of water so I added some wavy lines so that I could put in more than one pattern to make it more interesting. 

Then I started to add color. I started with me and the fish putting a different pattern in each shape I found. I even changed my pattern a little in my seaweed as I crossed my wavy line. 

Then I finished coloring it in. Changing my patterns for each shape between the wavy lines. I like this but I think I could make my colors a little more solid to make it look more vibrant. I think I could make me stand out more if I chose a different color for my suit. I also think my bold black lines could be darker and maybe a little thicker. 

I like how solid the colors are on this other Romero Britto inspired piece I did. The bold black lines stand out better and it is much more colorful.

I can't wait to see what you create!!

Here is the video, giving you instructions,

5th Grade Notan Designs

The 5th Graders at Beehive did a great job on their Notan Design pieces. They were pretty proud of them. In two 45 minute classes, we made a small paper bag to hold all their pieces and finished their art piece. Here they are working and just about complete. 

Here are some finished pieces. 

5th Graders at Stansbury

Proud of their nearly complete Fall still life pieces. They were given several photographs of things found in the fall time and they created their own composition and painted with water colors.