Last year the sixth graders explored color theory with the cool/warm parrots. This year we tried something new. Students created cool paper with various watercolor techniques. I believe the sedan wrap on wet paper was their favorite. They also created paper with warm colors. When the papers dried, they tore up the cool paper to make a sea. They used the warm paper to create sea life. The end result a mixed media collage with high visual contrast.

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We have been back now for a month, and today is Back to School Night. I have redecorated and rearranged my room. I will admit it , I have been bad about updating this blog. So, here it goes, a storm of pictures to illustrate what has been going on in the art room.

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Creating value with personal text.

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This was a great lesson to teach one point perspective and help reinforce the concept of a vanishing point. First we looked at photographs of real Deserts that seemed to vanish to a point, then we made our own!

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My students have spent the last month designing and creating board games. They had to come up with c concept, use Adobe Illustrator to create it and Tinker cad to create dice. Today we tested out the games!

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EQ: Where do artists gather inspiration

I’m not going to lie. Watercolors are deceptively difficult.

Over the years I’ve learned I really need to teach watercolors as a whole unit.

We begin with the very basics. How to get the colors ready, how to use the palette, how to use the brush, not holding the palette sideways when putting away!

Then we move into mixing colors with a color wheel.  My students make a color wheel for each new medium. Then we explored various techniques through a guided step by step painting where we all painted the same thing.

Then the students were ready and able to pick their own subjects.

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EQ: What makes Surrealism so Surreal?

TSWAT identify a piece of surreal art.
TSWBAT analyze, evaluate, and interpret a Surrealist Art Piece.
TSWBAT modify, tranform, scale, and distort a pencil to fit the contour of a selected image.

Scale: Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.

Levitation:Floating objects that don’t normally float

Juxtaposition:Joining two images together in  impossible combinations

Dislocation:Taking an object form its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one

Transparency:Making objects transparent that are  not usually transparent

Metamorphosis:Changing objects in unusual way

Natural Laws Reversed: The laws of nature are reversed as in people walking dogs.

Repetition: An object repeated multiple times.

After learning about the surrealist art movement, students used two of the key ideas of Surrealism (transformation and repetition) to create their own spin on surrealism using a No. 2 pencil.

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Students will work together to describe, analyze, evaluate, and judge a piece of art from the Arts and Craft period. We have previously gone over the movement and talked about the key identifying features.

Each student is given a copy of a Google Slide using Google Classroom.
They will be given a piece of art to reserach and will work togetehr to fill out the information on the Slides.

1. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.91.2/
2. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.150/

3. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1985.261/

4. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1991.311.1/

6. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1991.145/4.

7. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/52.43.1/

8. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/52.43.2/

9. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/52.43.3/

10. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.389.1/

11. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1986.445/

12. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.127/

13. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1983.26/

14. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2004.334/

15. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2005.464/

16. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1972.20.2/

17. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1972.60.1/

18. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1989.129/

19. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2000.31/

20. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1990.49/