Galaxy Painting

 Description: For this assignment, we learned about the six types of way you can use watercolor. Practicing each one on a piece of paper to practice them and how they would look when they dried. Then we briefly talked about the different types of constellations in the sky and what exactly a galaxy is. Our goal for the project was to use at least three different types of watercolor strategies and create a galaxy and landscape with it, while also incooperating at at least one constellation in the sky. 

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Extension activity: As an extension activity, I would have us study in science what different locations look like at night,  and depending on the time of the year, what the sky looks like. Then they can create a picture that is based more on a real location and looks similar to what that actual location looks like. 

Perspective Drawing

 Description: For this assignment, we learned about what it means and what it looks like to draw from a different perspective, a bird's-eye view perspective. We started by drawing a dot in the middle and then making at least eight different boxes. The next step was to connect those boxes to the main point, making straight lines and making sure not to cross over the boxes. Applying Sharpie was the next step, making our lines stand out more. After Sharpie, we added a variety of different textures and patterns to the top of the boxes and then used analogous colors to fill in the buildings, showing how buildings look from on top rather than straight on. 

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Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I would incorporate math and have them use specific measurements to build their buildings, and also have them practice drawing them from different perspectives to get more practice in on both the math side and art side. 

Hidden Safari

Description: The Hidden Safari is a fun way to incorporate how colors contrast and react with each other. We started out by making our glasses with red film. Then we moved on to practicing drawing animals upside down to get more practice and confidence with drawing. Then we picked safari animals to draw on our page. After we drew them, we covered them with warm colors in a variety of different shapes to hide the true identity of our picture. Overlapping shapes and shades make seeing the animal almost impossible. Then we had to write down three clues to what our animal was. 

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Extensin Activity: You could use this for a science lesson that focuses on how red film filters differnt wave lengths. Looking at how it makes some colors stand out while making other colors disappear. We would practice with shining a white light through it, then comparing it to other colored film and observing what colors pass through them and which ones get blocked and why. 

Vincent Van Gogh Inspired Landscape Project

 Description:

 The activity started with talking about Van Gogh's Starry Night Painting and what elements of principal design we saw in it. Then we dived a little more into his life and how it can sometimes take a long time to become famous for works of art. Then we made our own project, similar to his landscape. We laid down tissue paper and stuck it down with glue. Then we cut out a landscape and glued it over the top. I decided to do a mountain landscape. We use oil pastels to mimic the swirls found in Starry Night. 

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For an extension activity, I could tie it in to social studies, and have the students do a landscape that can be found in South Dakota (or whatever state I am in), and we can talk about Van Gogh's history along with state history. 

Dot Day Activity

 Description: This is a project based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds called The Dot. It is a story based on a kid who said he wasn't creative, and yet made artwork out of different types of dots. For our project, we used coffee filters, and a variety of other mediums of art (markers, crayons,  water colors, oil pastels, ect) and created our own dot. I used a white crayon to create a secret message that appeared after I covered it with purple paint. 

Extension Activity: With the Dot activity, you could include a social studies element with it. Every student has a coffee filter, and they use a white crayon to write their signature on it. Then you will collect all of them and mix them up. The history element goes back to John Hancock and signing the Declaration of Independence. Talking about the importance of a signature and what it really means to put your name on this document. Then the students will have to design the dot to reveal whose name is on the paper, and then give it back to the right owner. 

Elements and Principal Pictures

 Unity - It is a collage of library bar codes. 

Emphasis - The pine cone and the bird stand out against the white background. 

Rythem/movement - using curved lines and a variety of colors to demonstrate something moving. 

Color - What is seen when the light hits it and reflets in our eye.

Texture: You can see the movment and demension in the fur. 

Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I will do a mystery design challenge. Each student student is going to a principal of design, and then they are going to have to use that design to create a project and then present it and try to have their classmate guess the principal they had. 

Jaci Stemwedel Footprint Introduction

 Description: I made this footprint by using at least three different media (
magazine, drawing, printed pictures). I also included my name in the middle of the footprint and used the images surrounding it to describe myself. 

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Students can use their footprint in science to learn about the footprint of different animals. After creating their own footprint, they will create a footprint of an animal and write down facts about the animal and do an all about an animal presentation.