Friday, April 17, 2015
River View Local School District Art Show Announcement
River View Local School District Art Show is May 1st and 2nd from 4:30 - 7pm at River View High School! Come support the arts and the amazing talented and creative students here at River View! In the next week, students from Conesville and Keene will be receiving a letter home as another reminder!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
2D vs 3D Andy Warhol Soup Cans
5th Grade is finally finishing up their Andy Warhol 2Dimensional turned 3Dimensional Soup Cans! They really turned out great! Below are some pictures of student artwork from Mrs. Donaker's 5th grade class at Conesville! Wonderful job! :) I'm also super excited to be continuing on to a Georgia O'Keeffe water color study with 5th grade to welcome spring!
For this lesson, students were inspired by Andy Warhol to come up with a unique, creative, Campbell Soup name. I encouraged students to think outside the box (see teacher sample)! Next, students watched, discussed, and compared artwork of Warhol's together in groups after watching an inspiring video, introducing students to the artwork and life of Warhol. The classroom discussed the Pop Art Movement (What makes something popular?! What does Pop Art look like?), as well as an unfamiliar art process: printmaking. However, with this project students didn't get the full experience of printmaking. But, they did create "print like" transfers using a graphite pencil process to replicate the same, detailed cursive Campbell's font from a copied print.
Students also discussed how math is frequently used in the artworld. In order for every student to make "print-like" replicas of Andy Warhol's Soup Can prints, students were asked to measure specific dimensions for the background of their compositions. Therefore, there was an equal amount of space around the can, as well as the size of the can stayed the same. Students also discussed what the difference was between 2Dimensional art and 3Dimensional art.
We had a couple of hiccups and changes to this project along the way. Originally I wanted students to paint the text "Campbells" with white paint. However, with the amount of time ticking away and the lack of comfort students had with painting, I felt it was a better step forward to approach the white of the text with white oil pastel. Students outlined their print transfers and filled them in neatly with oil pastel and they came out great!
Check out some of the photos below!
For this lesson, students were inspired by Andy Warhol to come up with a unique, creative, Campbell Soup name. I encouraged students to think outside the box (see teacher sample)! Next, students watched, discussed, and compared artwork of Warhol's together in groups after watching an inspiring video, introducing students to the artwork and life of Warhol. The classroom discussed the Pop Art Movement (What makes something popular?! What does Pop Art look like?), as well as an unfamiliar art process: printmaking. However, with this project students didn't get the full experience of printmaking. But, they did create "print like" transfers using a graphite pencil process to replicate the same, detailed cursive Campbell's font from a copied print.
Students also discussed how math is frequently used in the artworld. In order for every student to make "print-like" replicas of Andy Warhol's Soup Can prints, students were asked to measure specific dimensions for the background of their compositions. Therefore, there was an equal amount of space around the can, as well as the size of the can stayed the same. Students also discussed what the difference was between 2Dimensional art and 3Dimensional art.
We had a couple of hiccups and changes to this project along the way. Originally I wanted students to paint the text "Campbells" with white paint. However, with the amount of time ticking away and the lack of comfort students had with painting, I felt it was a better step forward to approach the white of the text with white oil pastel. Students outlined their print transfers and filled them in neatly with oil pastel and they came out great!
Check out some of the photos below!
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| Teacher Sample |
Friday, March 20, 2015
1st Grade Shaving Cream Starry Night
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| Teacher Sample |
Spring is finally here and the art room is smelling a bit like shaving cream! My first grade students have been fascinated by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night to create an artwork that's all about movement! So far, we have discussed how to draw movement, Vincent Van Gogh's painterly style, and history. Students also discussed what they thought they saw in the Starry Night (Is that a bush? A castle? Fire?!...Are those crashing waves or hills?! Did Van Gogh really see the sky like that?!) , which led to another discussion about opinions and art. It was really interesting hearing what everyone had to say!
On the first day, students also had the responsibility to work on their own, following my visual step by step instructions on how to create stars with movement using paper, glue, and markers, replicating Van Gogh's Style! As students were working, I pulled aside a few students at a time to create movement with watered down blue tempera paint and (my favorite) shaving cream! Students sprinkled a few dots of paint on the cream, swirled it with the handle end of a paint brush using large circle motions, pressed their paper gently on top, and scrapped off the access cream to reveal a wonderful white and blue marble painting. They came out great!
I will post some finished work in Keene Awesome Artists soon!
Have a wonderful day :)
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Mr. Vincent
It's official! The weather is warming up! (But, I'm sure now that I've said that the weather will probably drop below zero...) I'm excited to show you the next couple of projects students will be working on.
Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters and his work can easily inspire students to think and see objects differently! Students will be inspired by Vincent Van Gogh to analyze and interpret 'the impression' of objects. They will specifically be experiencing and applying Van Gogh's artistic painterly style to create movement with tempera paint and oil pastels when replicating Van Gogh's famous artwork 'Starry Night'. They will also have the opportunity to create their own towns on the hills (or crashing waves!) below.
This is a lesson I had the awesome opportunity to witness during my student teaching experience with Ginger Pacer (Paint Brush Rocket), who very often is my inspiration to think outside the box when it comes to creating elementary art lessons. I haven't had the chance to teach the lesson yet myself, so I'm super excited I get to share this opportunity with my 3rd graders. I know they are going to LOVE it! Plus, we just got in our new paint brushes that I purchased using our Square 1 art money! So thank you to everyone who participated in that fundraiser! They will definitely help students create quality artwork without the struggle of the old, deteriorated paint brushes we were previously using.
6th graders are currently finishing up their Egyptian portraits, adding their names in hieroglyphics on a black border. Next, students are studying 3D art! Sadly, students do not have the opportunity to create a ceramic piece of artwork this year because of budget costs and there is only 1 kiln between the two elementary schools. But, that will not prevent me and my students from creating any 3D work! 6th grade students were asked to bring in cereal boxes to construct 3D letters using paper mache. Below is an example of a letter I've created.
Please make sure 6th grade students bring in flattened cereal boxes with their names on them by March 24th! Thank you :)
Also, a tentative art show will be May 1st and 2nd at River View High School. More details to come!
Keep creating!
3rd Grade Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Paintings
Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters and his work can easily inspire students to think and see objects differently! Students will be inspired by Vincent Van Gogh to analyze and interpret 'the impression' of objects. They will specifically be experiencing and applying Van Gogh's artistic painterly style to create movement with tempera paint and oil pastels when replicating Van Gogh's famous artwork 'Starry Night'. They will also have the opportunity to create their own towns on the hills (or crashing waves!) below.
This is a lesson I had the awesome opportunity to witness during my student teaching experience with Ginger Pacer (Paint Brush Rocket), who very often is my inspiration to think outside the box when it comes to creating elementary art lessons. I haven't had the chance to teach the lesson yet myself, so I'm super excited I get to share this opportunity with my 3rd graders. I know they are going to LOVE it! Plus, we just got in our new paint brushes that I purchased using our Square 1 art money! So thank you to everyone who participated in that fundraiser! They will definitely help students create quality artwork without the struggle of the old, deteriorated paint brushes we were previously using.
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| Teacher Sample...Just realized my crescent moon is backwards! :) |
6th graders are currently finishing up their Egyptian portraits, adding their names in hieroglyphics on a black border. Next, students are studying 3D art! Sadly, students do not have the opportunity to create a ceramic piece of artwork this year because of budget costs and there is only 1 kiln between the two elementary schools. But, that will not prevent me and my students from creating any 3D work! 6th grade students were asked to bring in cereal boxes to construct 3D letters using paper mache. Below is an example of a letter I've created.
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| Teacher Sample - Van Gogh Style |
Please make sure 6th grade students bring in flattened cereal boxes with their names on them by March 24th! Thank you :)
Also, a tentative art show will be May 1st and 2nd at River View High School. More details to come!
Keep creating!
Friday, February 27, 2015
Egyptian Portraits, Aboriginal Australian Animals, and Funky Lego Prints
WOAH! Things have seriously been crazy with all of these snow days (I think, what, it has been a total of 14 now? I lost count...). First, I would like to say that I cannot wait till SPRING!! Recently I made a post about the art exhibit Play Ground of Color at the JH Museum. I finally had the chance to make it over to the exhibit and I saw some pretty neat and inspiring stuff! If you didn't get the chance to see it the artwork will be up until the 2nd week of March. Here are some pictures :)
All of these snow days have really taken a hit to the art rotations schedule. Some of my students I have only seen once since we have been back from winter break! I'm trying to make the most of my time though. Currently, 6th graders have been brainstorming about how artists use math when creating artwork. To compliment the Egyptian social studies unit, my 6th grade students and I took a look at Egyptian art (specifically portraits) and how the art work reflects their culture. I found this cool video that really explained how Egyptians used a mathematical grid process to create precise portraits that have been drawn, carved, sculpted (you name it!) for hundreds of years! Students were then provided copies of Egyptian portraits with different crowns, which I had drawn a 1 inch grid on the top of the copy to help students analyze the line, shapes, and space within the portrait.
When starting the drawing, I asked students "How can we enlarge this drawing to make it 2 times bigger?" Students were provided a sheet of paper to the correct dimensions and they got started creating their own grids (that were 2 times bigger of course!)
After that students were on their own when drawing their portraits because every portrait was different! It really made them slow down their process of drawing to study the direction of line, the amount of space compared to other lines and shapes, and proportion. At first most students were nervous because they were on their own, but after getting use to the grid their portraits CAME OUT FANTASTIC! A very successful project :) Students outlined their portraits with black crayon and got to painting a light application of gold paint. The next step is going to be painting gold hieroglyphics on the black border!
3rd Grade has been busy too! I introduced students to Aboriginal Australian art and we have been focusing on animal silhouettes, free form shapes, and contrasting colors. Here are a couple of "nearly" finished artworks!
2nd grade has had the opportunity to use my childhood Duplo Legos and regular Legos to create abstract (almost industrial looking) prints! We used the second day of the lesson to focus on primary and secondary colors, as well as what it means to use different types of pressure when drawing. Some student imaginations really took off! But believe me, this was probably one of the messiest projects to date! If you do this at home with your children proceed with caution! :)
Stay warm!!!! :) -Mrs. Yambor
All of these snow days have really taken a hit to the art rotations schedule. Some of my students I have only seen once since we have been back from winter break! I'm trying to make the most of my time though. Currently, 6th graders have been brainstorming about how artists use math when creating artwork. To compliment the Egyptian social studies unit, my 6th grade students and I took a look at Egyptian art (specifically portraits) and how the art work reflects their culture. I found this cool video that really explained how Egyptians used a mathematical grid process to create precise portraits that have been drawn, carved, sculpted (you name it!) for hundreds of years! Students were then provided copies of Egyptian portraits with different crowns, which I had drawn a 1 inch grid on the top of the copy to help students analyze the line, shapes, and space within the portrait.
When starting the drawing, I asked students "How can we enlarge this drawing to make it 2 times bigger?" Students were provided a sheet of paper to the correct dimensions and they got started creating their own grids (that were 2 times bigger of course!)
After that students were on their own when drawing their portraits because every portrait was different! It really made them slow down their process of drawing to study the direction of line, the amount of space compared to other lines and shapes, and proportion. At first most students were nervous because they were on their own, but after getting use to the grid their portraits CAME OUT FANTASTIC! A very successful project :) Students outlined their portraits with black crayon and got to painting a light application of gold paint. The next step is going to be painting gold hieroglyphics on the black border!
3rd Grade has been busy too! I introduced students to Aboriginal Australian art and we have been focusing on animal silhouettes, free form shapes, and contrasting colors. Here are a couple of "nearly" finished artworks!
2nd grade has had the opportunity to use my childhood Duplo Legos and regular Legos to create abstract (almost industrial looking) prints! We used the second day of the lesson to focus on primary and secondary colors, as well as what it means to use different types of pressure when drawing. Some student imaginations really took off! But believe me, this was probably one of the messiest projects to date! If you do this at home with your children proceed with caution! :)
Kindergarten just finished up studying Wassily Kandinsky. We took a look at his abstract expressionism paintings and students were asked to find objects in his paintings from the different marks he made with paint! Students identified warm and cool colors and painted an expressive, colorful background while listening to instrumental music. On the second day, we reviewed Wassily Kandinsky's work and made different expressive marks using black ink with cardboard tools!
Stay warm!!!! :) -Mrs. Yambor
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
JH Museum's Playground of Color!
Hello all! Recently I was asked to submit work to the local Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum for their annual art show in Coshocton County! This year their theme is "Playground of Color." I submitted about 40 pieces per school! The students did a fantastic job! Below is some of their work! I will be posting some more photos from the actual exhibit later in the week. Thank you to parents and students who were able to make the opening! Art work will be displayed until the middle of March.
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