ArTechTivity (TM)

In the second week of September we learned about Animals in Art. Using our textbook, a slideshow of examples and class discussion we prepared ourselves to create some animal art.

• We learned how artists have been using animals as subjects since the early cave paintings.
• We discussed how artists can show MOOD in a piece of art. Some of the examples included humor, anticipation, dreamy, playful and sad.
• We learned how artists will use EMPHASIS in a painting to make one part more important than other parts. They can use LINE, COLOR or SHAPE to draw your eye to the important part.

My Teacher Example of an instructional video

Bike Signals

In 6th grade art we will study the elements of ART including COLOR!

Click to see a bigger view of these great color wheel ideas. Including fabric, CANDY, rocks and natural items, yarn, paint, the computer, pencils, shoes and dolls. What could YOU make into a color wheel?

Book Review of VanGogh by Marley. You can check this book out in our school library.

What do you think of this review? Have YOU read this book? Do you agree with the reviewer on her assessment of the book’s quality?

Marley BR 

Check out more of our book reviews, or share your own!

June 7th, 2008 is Drawing Day!

Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help us create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities. You can even video tape yourself drawing and share on our blog or other online communities.

I hope you will participate, just pick up a pencil and draw! Check out some great links and inspirations at the Art Junction where this Art teacher who shares his favorite drawing sites or how about I Like Pencils.

Mrs. Smith’s 8th grade Language Arts recorded some reader’s theater plays. Ms. Gaub’s 8th grade computer class is adding voice effects, sounds and music to finish them up.

First the just recorded plays…

Snow White Period One Snowee White

Aladdin Period Three Aladdin Group 1

Red Ridinghood Period Three Fairy Tales

Wizard of OZ Period Three Wiz of Oz

For our final Podcasts of the year we are reviewing a selection of art books. Here is my example.

http://www.stupidcreatures.com/

book commercial gaub

First: Take creative and quality pictures of the following items:

1. CLOSE-up of Yellow flower pollen
2. CLOSE-up of a 3 leaf clover
3. CLOSE-up of a bug
4. Colorful SKY
5. 3 colors in a plant/tree
6. the color orange
7. someone in motion (jump, run, riding a bike etc)
8. BONUS (from home) neighborhood or family pet

Then: Resize, enhance, crop rename and resave all your good photos and delete the bad ones.

Finally: put them together in a photo collage using photoshop. Include one of each scavenger hunt item and a title using text. Save it as a JPEG before turning in.

Turn into MOODLE with the proper naming sequence! ex: y8t3p1SH_sam.jpg

Students from several countries crated rotoscoped animations.

Rotoball 2008 from The Carrot Revolution on Vimeo.

For this Assignment Students Picked a verb, Used MS PAINT to create a background , Used  PIVOT Stickfigure Animator to act out the word and then Used Windows Movie Maker to add music and title, credits.

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1st Period 8th Graders

Download Video: Posted by cgaub at TeacherTube.com.

3rd Period 8th Graders

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