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Category Archives: Art Education
Fall Leaves on an Autumn Day
Grade 2/3: Tissue Paper Leaves This was a great first lesson, with me as the ‘guest artist’ coming into this class, one fine October day. How nice to meet this lovely group of kids, and to … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Colour, Cut-paper Collages, Fall
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Exploring Cubism
Grade 7/8 Abstraction in Cubism Session 1: I gave the class a brief introduction to one of the most important movements in Art in the last century: Cubism! I talked about the idea of abstraction (isn’t all Art just that? … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 7/8 Art Projects
Tagged Chalk Pastels, Cubism, Line Drawings
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The NameTangle Game
Grade 2/3: Doodling Around With Their Names This was great as a first Art Project for the year. Some students were new to me, but many had done Art with me the year before. We talked about different kinds of … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Doodles, Line Drawings, Names
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Another Year, and the Art Keeps Comin’
We are swinging into another year in the Art Room and beyond. Woot! Explorations in Cubism, close observations of guitars and music genre, drawing and painting are all underway. We’ve had our first Art Challenge, another to come, and the … Continue reading
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The P.O. Art Challenges of 2011-12
Every few weeks of the year, I have run an Art Challenge with the students of Parliament Oak Elementary School. It is completely voluntary, and is not connected with their schoolwork. The entries are judged by myself and an … Continue reading
Posted in Art Challenge, Art Education
Tagged Drawing
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More Op Art Cubes
Grade 7/8: Op Art Cube Sculptures There was a distinct ‘Op Art Buzz’ going on, so I took the ideas and lesson I did for Op Art cubes with the grade 6’s at the other school, and added a pedestal … Continue reading
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Tagged Doodles, Line Drawings, Op Art, Sculpture
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Op Art Cubes
Grade 5: Exploring Op Art and Cubing It Op Art Explored This fall saw several of the classes learning abut Op Art (Op is for Optical), and some of the artists who developed it. Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley … Continue reading
Tooled Foil Reliefs
Grade 7/8: A Musical Interpretation Set in Aluminum Foil Session 1: It began with brushes and pots of black washes of paint, LOTS of big sheets of paper, and music. I should say I mentioned some things like Dadaism, automatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Assemblages, Cardboard, Reliefs
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Enter, Notan.
Grade 5: Flipping the Positive and Negative With Notan I recently purchased this book, Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design and even though I have so far only taken a rather cursory look at it – I found the images … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Pattern
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More Zendalas, Please
Grade 5: Exploring Pattern with Zendalas This was a quick lesson to fill in with the grade 5’s as the 4’s were working on their Medieval castles. There was less instruction on my part than the last time I taught … Continue reading
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Tagged Doodles, Drawing, Line Drawings, Zendalas
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