6th-Design a New Cereal

Today you are going to become cereal inventors and package designers. Your job is to invent a brand-new cereal that does not already exist and design its cereal box.

Your cereal can be funny, strange, gross, delicious, or completely ridiculous. You might invent cereal shaped like planets, monster teeth, tiny pizzas, or something nobody has ever seen before. The idea needs to be your own.

Do not redesign a cereal that already exists. I should not see a new version of Lucky Charms, Froot Loops, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or another real cereal.

This is an art assignment, so the goal is not just to come up with a funny cereal idea. Draw large, add details, make the cereal name stand out, take your time, and color carefully.

DIRECTIONS

1. You will begin today's assignment by completing a brainstorming worksheet about your cereal box.

2. After completing the worksheet and having your design approved. You will be able to begin your final piece. I will provide you with a blank cereal box template like the one listed below.

3. Complete your cereal box design.

YOUR CEREAL BOX MUST INCLUDE:

FRONT:

1. CEREAL NAME - Make it big and easy to read.

2. PICTURE OF THE CEREAL - Show what the cereal actually looks like. A bowl of cereal works great.

3. MASCOT - Create an original character for the cereal.

4. FLAVOR - Clearly show what flavor the cereal is.

BACK:

Add a maze, game, comic, jokes, trivia, or another activity featuring your mascot."

SIDES:

One side will contain an Ingredient List that I will provide, the other side needs to be some kind of design related to your cereal.

5th- Robots and Doughnuts with Eric Joyner

Our next project takes a look at contemporary artist Eric Joyner and creating a metallic effect with colored pencils by blending them together.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us.

Take a look here for more examples of contemporary art:

http://arthistory.about.com/od/current_contemporary_art/f/what_is.htm

http://www.art21.org/teach/on-contemporary-art/contemporary-art-in-context

Pulled from Eric Joyner's website.

In 1999, I started to enter various juried shows at Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley, CA. and the work was well received. Shows in other galleries, (usually group shows) were positive as well. In 2000, after years of painting other people’s pictures, I made the decision to only paint things that I liked. Four series of paintings of different subjects were started; they were: San Francisco urbanscapes, paintings of old newspaper cartoons characters, Mexican masks, and last but not least, Japanese tin (toy) robots. Though all four series of these subjects were enjoyable to do, I chose to focus on the tin robots, as they were the most popular and seemed to have the most possibilities. So, armed with a small collection of tin robots and spaceships I began painting them in earnest. In attempt to bring them to life without losing their charm, I showed them where they belonged: outer space. By 2002 the paintings were looking good, but they still needed something to play off of… perhaps a nemesis. After a month or so of searching for a ‘nemesis’ I had an epiphany while watching the movie ‘Pleasantville.’ In one of the scenes, Jeff Daniels paints a still life of…donuts. With thoughts of Wayne Thiebaud’s pastries always close at hand, it wasn’t difficult to see the battle scene of robots retreating from 300-foot tall donuts when I went to bed that night. The rest, as they say, is history.

This video is a tutorial showing some different colors you can blend together to create some metallic textures.

Directions:

Create a robot artwork inspired by Eric Joyner.

Add donuts (or another type of sweet treat) to your robot drawings like Eric Joyner.

Create a metallic texture on your robot using the blending techniques we worked on in class.

There are many robot part examples below here for inspiration.

AR Standards: CR1.5.2 P6.5.2 R7.5.1

8th Grade- Magazine Sculptures

For our next project you will be using magazines and colored paper to create a sculpture of your choice. Your sculpture can be a relief sculpture, for hanging on a wall, or a sculpture in the round that stands on its own.

Check out the artwork from artist Yun-Woo Choi here: https://mymodernmet.com/yun-woo-choi-magazine-sculptures/

The pictures below are all examples of different magazine sculptures. They all look different but are all basically made the same way. Roll the magazine strips into tubes and glue them into an interesting pattern. Notice how the texture of the paper rolls create a nice pattern and rhythm in your work.

7th- Keith Larsen- The Faces in Places- Google Drawings

This project will be a digital assignment using Google Drawings. You will need to look at the slideshow for all instructions for this project.

Your first task will be creating an original emoji. This project will help you learn how to use the tools. The next part of the project will be to create an image in the style of Keith Larsen's Faces within Places drawings.

Your second task will be to find an item in the real world that looks like a face and take a photo of it. Then you will use what you learned creating your emoji smiley to create a unique character from your item.

Take a look at the video for some examples of this. This is a phenomenon called pareidolia and everyone experiences it.

NOW take a look at the slideshow and begin your project!

6th- Digital Mosaics in Google Drawings

Our next project will take a look at the art of mosaics and stained glass. Mosaics have a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC. They were typically made from clay tiles, pebbles and sometimes glass. They often depicted religious subjects or were purely decorative. You will be able to choose any photo you would like to create for your mosaic and we will discuss how to use the Google Drawing tools in class. Take a look at the links below for inspiration and some of my examples in the photos.

https://www.artsyshark.com/2019/11/18/featured-artist-carol-davis/

https://www.mountainliving.com/hand-cut-stained-glass-mosaics/

https://jkmosaic.com/translucent-stained-glass-mosaic/

DIRECTIONS:

Find an image to recreate as a mosaic and save it.

Upload your photo into Google Drawings.

Using the tools we discuss in class, create your mosaic.

5th- Embellished Portraits with Victoria Villasana

For this project we will take a look at artist Victoria Villasana. She uses yarn and fabrics to embellish portraits of vintage photographs. "Embellish" means to make something more attractive by adding decorative details or features. We will use Google Drawings to create an embellished portrait in her style. Click on the link to take a look at some of her art examples, then take a look at my example of Adam Sandler. We will discuss how to use the Google drawing tools in class.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/10/embroidered-vintage-photos-victoria-villasana/

https://victoriavillasana.com/

DIRECTIONS:

Find and image of a celebrity of your choice.

Upload it into Google Drawings.

Turn it black and white.

Embellish your portrait with colorful lines to create shapes and patterns.

5th- Keith Haring!

For our next lesson, we will look at the art of Keith Haring and the figures that he created.

First, you will practice creating Keith Haring figures by drawing from the Roll-a-Haring worksheet. Then, you will create a collage using construction paper and markers for your figures.