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E-mail Mary Kohl Johnson (Art Specialist - G/T facilitator)

Art Methods Syllabus- Course Outline

Overview Assignments

TEXT Resources
Resources

Lessons and Journals:
Jan 23 - Jan 30
Feb 6 - Feb 13 - Feb 20 - Feb 27
Mar 6 - Mar 20 - Mar 27
Apr 3 - Apr 10 - Apr 17 - Apr 24
May 1

REQUIRED READING
Chapter 27: Printmaking
Chapter 28: Computer - Photo- Video

Sign in 6:30 pm
Computer room

GROUPS MEDIA
Grades Kindergarten
Grade 1-2
Grade 3-4
Grade 5-6
Grade 7-8

REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY
Summary of each assigned chapter 25-28
Brief eval of all chapter websites citing specific discipline relevancy
Journals from Ch 25-28 to be turned in at the start of this class APRIL 17 in folder/ (optional paper of CD)

REQUIRED
Art Assignment #6:
Portrait due April 17
Rubric ART Assignment

Activity Planning: ART CURRICULUMS

WI ART STANDARDS: Knowing | Doing | Communicating | Thinking | Understanding | Creating | Proficiency

 

Rural America: Making Connections with Social Studies

Migrant Mother, Photographer Dorothea Lange

Artist Grant Wood
Models are Grant Wood's sister Nan and his dentist. The house in rural Iowahas a church window (Gothic style).

PORTRAITS ARE REAL PEOPLE IN REAL TIMES
WAtercolors, markers, crayons, charcoal, oil pastels chalk
Arrange by group K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 discuss variations and integration options

Ex: Rural American lives in the 1920's, or the Depression
or Feelings if husbands were at war with no phone, or e-mail
or Planning a country dinner

As a group BRAIN STORM and discuss grade specifc lesson options, log ideas

Posing students as models, perhaps with a grandparent in attendance telling about a part of their lives, Oral Resource.

Information can be gathered from historical costumes, props, facial expressions, and body language.

Steps for success using a student model.

1. Set up model wearing interesting clothing/hat.

Have model take a few active poses. Do some quick gesture drawing warm ups. There should be NO interaction with model and clas while working.

2. Set up an intersting/ comfortable pose that can be held for 10-15 minutes. Draw 1 or 2 contour drawings to capture the image to be painted

You can draw from many points of views: straight on, from the side, 3/4 view and close-up. Your composition can be symmetrical or asymmetrical. The background as well as the figure should be broken up into simple, abstract, shape-like forms.

3. Select the strongest of your drawings, simplify shapes, disregard non-essential details. DO NOT ERASE. Use distortion and elongation where appropriate to capture personality and body language. Avoid excessive exaggeration or it will become cartoon-like.

4. Begin painting process by selecting colors. LIMIT colors to two complimentary (opposite color pairs: red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple).

Use tinted shades (darker and lighter values) of each pair. Start with background and larger shapes. Work from light to dark
HINT: Mix enough paint to cover the area to be painted. It is difficult to match a mixed color

5. When you mix 2 opposites you can create neutrals: browns, blacks or greys which will work well with the opposite colors. BUT the painting should be more of the opposite colors not more neutral colors.

Painting an era of history:
Links to letters written to Mrs Roosevelt
During the Great Depression, thousands of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for help. They asked for clothing, money, and other forms of assistance.

3 lessons available online

• Analyzing the Letters
  Hometown Children and the Depression
  A Comparison with Children in Modern Times
  http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/classdmr.htm

A Day in the Life of Children then and now,
Curriculum integration: Social studies
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview?LPid=1040

Uptime, Down time by John Peel
The story tells how things have changed and may change.