HCA Christmas card contest

IF you missed the notice in the Catholic Witness about the Holy Childhood Association Art Contest you can find the information on:

hcakids.org

Pictures

Anyone remember the crayola website someone metioned that can make photos a coloring page?

Veggies and Fruit Pictures

 

Thanksgiving two of the projects my class creates is with color copies of vegetables.

Color printable pages

Downloadable images

Project Examples:

 

Two Projects:

How are you Peeling creating paper collage creatures.

AND

Self Portrait in the style of Giuseppe Arcimoldo collage.

*I stop the video at the 2 min. mark, due to the last two paintings.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Uploaded by Meurglys-III. - Independent web videos.

Bob Ross time

 

Ok, Winter is coming and the painting of pine trees. I do a painting lesson with my middle school by working with the fan brush. In 6th grade I introduce the pine tree. Before this they have used the fan brush to create grass and fun little things with the fan brush. It s a favorite, but  only get them out  every once in awhile.

I play this video for  6-8 grade about how to create a fan brush pine tree.  For 6th grade it’s an introduction and for the 7th & 8th a review.

We start winter landscapes at the end of November. If I didn’t, with all the Christmas stuff going on they would never get them done by Christmas.

6th grade creates a basic tempera paint pine tree landscape painting.

7th grade creates a 4 piece card set the theme is pine trees done in four different ways. Choices  4 different art materials, colors or seasons.

8th pushes a little farther and creates an acrylic  winter scene, they may choose a pine tree calendar page to work from and a 4x4” canvas.

They love these as Christmas gifts.

Great “The Scream” video

Great artist for Halloween Art

The video is from art  DocuWatch has some really good videos. Also you can share this site with other teachers they have history, science etc.

They have Sister Wendy for you high school teachers!

I cannot embed this but here is the link:
Private Life Of A Masterpiece - Munch's The Scream

http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/?alternative=2&channel_id=10&skip=0&subpage=video&video_id=146

I watched part of the with my 8th grade you can see my examples on the other Art Blog

The Impossible Cube of MC Escher

How to draw MC Escher's Impossible Cube

 

Great video for MC Escher fans. I did this with 6th grade, after we finished the lesson on tessellations. They love this, for the next two weeks they are drawing these all the time and tormenting younger siblings by drawing quickly and confusing them. I have the younger siblings being tormented asking me how do you draw that, I just tell them when they get into 6th grade they will learn how to.

We look at this drawing

I don’t tell them much in the beginning but that this is known as the impossible cube. At first they think it’s a regular cube until someone notices the irregularity.

I show the video

1. Run it through the first time having the class watch it.

2. Run it through the second time and stop at each step:

Students have a direction sheet from wiki how

 http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-an-Impossible-Cube

They usually get it and then create several, color, cut out and mount onto construction paper.

Examples

After learning to drawing the cube I show them this website of a woodworker whose objective s to create 3-D  sculptures of Escher’s art. One side looks like the drawing, then he shows how it needs warped on the other side of the shape to create it.

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/

Good Video

Good video for continuous contour line portraits .

website: http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx video is from youtube on his site if your school blocks youtube. I put it on from the dailymotion website, but it does have an add that runs before.