Our next project is a project for Halloween! Trace your hand and turn it into a zombie hand!
Take a look at the directions and examples below.
There are also a couple links to click on for some inspiration.
5th- Roll a Monster
Our next project is a fun Halloween project. You will use the worksheets as a guide as you roll a die to randomly select the parts of a monster to draw. After you draw your monster you will need to color it in full color. You can also add extra details and textures to make your monster unique. Monsters need to be drawn on the provided paper and fill the page. (No tiny monsters!) You will create two monsters for this project.
DIRECTIONS: There are 4 different options below.
Choose 1 worksheet per monster and complete all the requested rolls for your monster.
Roll the die and draw the corresponding shape that matches the number you land on to create your monster. After you draw the monster parts you rolled, you may add extra touches and color to your monster to make it your own!
OPTION 1
OPTION 2
OPTION 3
AR Standards: CR1.5.1 P5.5.1 CN10.5.1
7th- Dia de los Muertos and Sugar Skulls
Día de los Muertos acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between life and death. El día de Los Muertos is celebrated on November 1st and November 2nd, in which the spirits of the dead are believed to return home and spend time with their relatives on these two days. To welcome them, the family build altars in their honor. These altars have a series of different components that vary from one culture to another that mostly include yellow marigolds, candles, photos of the deceased ones, papel picado or cut tissue-paper designs, as well as food and beverages offerings for the dead.
Check out this video to learn some history about el Dia de los Muertos
and here is a video about Sugar Skulls
DIRECTIONS:
For your next project, you will be creating Sugar Skull collages.
We will focus on creating symmetrical balance and unity in our sugar skull designs.
Symmetrical balance refers to balance that is achieved by arranging elements on either side of the center of a composition in an equally weighted manner. Symmetrical balance can be thought of as 50/50 balance or like a mirror image. In other words, the image would look the same on either side of the center.
UNITY in art is about separate parts working together in a composition. In an artwork, unity creates a sense of harmony and wholeness by using similar elements and placing them in a way that creates a feeling of “oneness.”
Take a look at the examples below and at the link below for many sugar skull examples.
STEP BY STEP
Step 1- Fold your paper in half.
Step 2- Using one of the example skull shapes draw half of your skull on one side of your paper.
Step 3- While your paper is still folded, you can trace the skull shape you just drew on the opposite side of the paper. When you finish unfold your paper and check out your skull. You can also trace your skull with a sharpie now.
Step 4- Using the construction paper and the scrapbooking paper, create shapes for one side of your skull.
REMINDER: Please try to not waste paper, cut from the edges of colorful paper, not the middle.
We DO NOT cut pizza or paper this way!!!
Here are some links that show some how to draw tutorials on sugar skulls and their designs.
Step 5- Trace each shape you make ONE time to create your mirror image on the other side of your skull. At the end of this step you should have two shapes that are the same.
Step 6- Glue all of your colorful shapes down onto the skull. You may add overlapping shapes to create a more complex design.
Step 7- Cut out your finished skull and glue it down to a large rectangular black sheet of paper.
8th- Blood and Bones
Students will look at reproductions of anatomical illustrations to inspire these gruesome masterpieces. Careful observation are encouraged in order to retain realistic accuracy of the structure of the bones and organs. We will employ a variety of techniques to create a vintage “antique” feel to our drawings, including painting a sepia toned background and using chalk pastels for hints of muted color. Final touches include creating a wire frame around our drawings, and adding optional “blood” splatters.
This project is from Mrs. Amsler's ArtRoom
https://amslerartroom.wordpress.com/student-work/blood-and-bones/
"Memento Mori"
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/memento-mori
“Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.
Closely related to the Memento Mori picture is the Vanitas still life. In addition to the symbols of mortality these may include other symbols such as musical instruments, wine, and books to remind us explicitly of the vanity of worldly pleasures and goods.
The Vanitas and Memento Mori picture became popular in the seventeenth century, in a religious age when almost everyone believed that life on earth was merely a preparation for an afterlife.”
Take a look at the slideshow link below for the intro
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yOV4SLX8N6rN9q45FFb4j8G4MmJ0rijc_xyrKNP46JI/edit#slide=id.p
After looking at the introduction, begin working on your preliminary drawings. You can refer to the two links below for reference images.
8th- Digital Juxtaposition
Artists will create TWO (2) digital artworks that contain juxtaposed images using Pixlr or Photopea on their computers.
Click on the link below to hear a definition of juxtaposition:
Definition: Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements.
While juxtaposition can be used in terms of formal elements - for example, the use of aggressive mark-making in contrast to an area of very controlled shading, or an area of crisp detail against something softly handled, it more often refers to concepts or imagery.
An artist might juxtapose a machine-made object or urban environment against organic elements of nature, in order to highlight different qualities in the two. Note that the way this is done can dramatically change the meaning: we might regard the machine-made or human-created as representing safety and order against the uncontrollable strength of nature; or we might see the fragility and beauty of nature against the soul-less uniformity of the urban world, depending on the nature of the subjects or images and the way they are presented.
Visual Examples
What are the effects of the following juxtaposed images?
Literary Example
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens
“I thoroughly hate loving you. Your heart is a perfectly-carved stone; Set deep into your chest, soft as granite. I grip you gently with angels' claws; Icy breath scorching your warm, shivering skin. Your hard topaz eyes shimmer liquidly.” - Author unknown
“You will soon be asked to do great violence in the cause of good.” - The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Juxtaposition in Movies
Project Examples
Demo Videos
PIXLR DEMO
PHOTOPEA DEMO
DIRECTIONS:
Artists will create TWO (2) digital artworks that contain juxtaposed images using Pixlr on their computers. Follow the instructions in the video above.
You will need 3 images for each artwork.
The two images creating the juxtaposition
and the silhouette.
You will need 3 images for each artwork.
The two images creating the juxtaposition
and the silhouette.
5th- Aerial Perspective Google Drawings
Today you will learn about Atmospheric(Aerial) Perspective and create an artwork using Google Draw.
Click on the link below to learn about Atmospheric (Aerial) Perspective.
Watch the Google Drawing tutorial below for an example of this project and some step by step instructions.
After watching the tutorial complete your 2 atmospheric (aerial) perspective landscapes.
Your landscapes must include:
1. 4 different background levels for your atmospheric piece
2. An interesting silhouette for the foreground
3. An interesting image/silhouette for the background
6th- Music Inspired Digital Kaleidoscope with Photopea
This is a digital project that will use the website Photopea. We will be using a few tools in Photopea, mainly the Magic Wand tool and the Filter section, and also learning how to use the layers section in Photopea.
We will also be discussing balance and rhythm in art, while using music as our inspiration to create awesome abstract kaleidoscope images of instruments or other musically inspired images.
This is a beginner project and there will be a live demo in class together, but there is also a video posted below if you need to go back and watch the tutorial again.
Directions:
1. Find a picture of a musical instrument(s) or something musically related online.
2. Watch the video above and follow the steps to transform your
instrument.
AR Standards: CR1.6.2 CR2.6.1 CR2.6.2 CR3.6.1 R9.6.1
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