ABC Scratchboard

The ABC's scratched into black tempera paint over crayon. ABC's around the outside as kind of a border and then lower-case letters swirled in the middle.

Starry Night

Depiction of the view from my bedroom window at night. I actually live in a basement apartment without a window here in Logan so I drew the view from my room back home. There is a tree right next to the window and then one further away. There is a grassy hill with a trampoline at the bottom of it which i was trying to show at the bottom of the page. I can always see the moon really well and full moons are my favorite so I chose to draw the night of a full moon.

color wheel

A color Wheel using the primary colors to make the secondary and tertiary colors. I wanted them to look like crayons. The warm colors are outlined in red and the cool are outlined in blue. The legend in the bottom right corner tells you that the primary are the ones connected with a solid black line, secondary and connected by a dotted black line and the tertiary are connected by the circle. The word Color is in secondary colors and Wheel is in the primary colors.

watercolor textures

6- texture squares portraying different emotions. The first emotion is confused, then depressed, then surprised, peaceful, irritated and mundane. I used salt to texture the first one, a stick on the second one, the side of a credit card on the third, plastic wrap, wax and a dry brush.

Carl Bloch Art Exhibit

A few weeks ago I was able to go down to the BYU Museum of Art and go through the Carl Bloch exhibit. It was absolutely phenomenal. The Museum has tons of original Carl Bloch paintings that are have been lent to them from different castles and churches in Denmark and Sweden. Many of the paintings had never been moved since first put their by Carl Bloch. BYU was also able to buy the painting "The Pool of Bethesda" and have it on permanent display. My grandparents are actually the ones who bought it and then donated it to BYU because it was my grandmothers favorite. For that reason and many others it has become one of my favorite paintings as well. The faces in the piece and all of his works, are incredibly detailed and emotional. You can feel the emotion that the artist wanted portrayed by each person in the paintings. This particular painting is so deep and has so much to take in. The large paintings of his are overwhelmingly beautiful and full. They portray so much that you could sit and look at them for hours on end. I liked how the exhibit offers ipads for rent that have extra information about each painting if you should want more than the plaque gives alongside the paintings. Bloch's art is used countless limes in Christian churches and so I was familiar with most, if not all the paintings they had on display. It made a more significant impact on me though because I was seeing the original artwork. There's just something special about seeing the paintings that Carl Bloch hand-painted himself, like I knew him somehow through his art. I would encourage anyone who has the chance to go down and see this exhibit, to do so. It's free unless you want an ipad, which is three dollars I believe. These paintings will never be released again from their original resting place so this is your only chance to see them!

Practicum-Name Bugs:)

Art Practicum Reflection

March 14, 2011

I think a few things went really well with this lesson. The kids seemed to really enjoy the project and really got into making it their own unique picture. They all thought the art I showed them before was started was cool and they all were able to understand the concept of symmetry.

If I were to teach this again I think I would change the way I gave directions for the name bugs. I need to figure out how to teach to the quick kids as well as the ones who may be slower in following directions. I had the classroom teacher kind of go around with me and help the kids who were having trouble writing their names etc. I think I will maybe have some of the kids go around and help their classmate in the future since I won’t have another teacher in my classroom.

I didn’t anticipate the amount of confusion that the kids had in where they were supposed write their names. I just had to go around and tell students to erase and start over or get a new paper, or flip it over because they had written it in the wrong place. I will have to write up step-by-step instructions next time maybe with pictures to accompany the steps because kids like to go ahead when they think they know what is going on.

The students loved this project! I wasn’t surprised though because I loved it too when I was in third grade. They thought it was really cool to design and color in their own bugs or monsters. Some of them got really creative in their backgrounds and some even made their bugs saying things, which they came up with all on their own.

I would probably teach them another visual concept like that of symmetry. For example, patterns. We could make another bug or monster out of patterns and they could have a family of bugs or something like that.

This project did make me excited to teach art because the kids were creative and I could tell that they were all having such a good time. It’s fun to see their brains working and see what they can come up with on their own. I think that I would enjoy just teaching art in my classroom and not being a full time art teacher just because I feel like it’s easier to relate art to their lives when you know their lives better.

We actually hung of all the students work on the white board with magnets. The students were all able to go and hang their picture up when they thought they were done with it. The teacher will eventually put them in their portfolios that they keep all year. Parent teacher conferences were actually later that week and so the parents got to se their work hanging up while they waited or after they were done with their conference.

A student who is normally very shy and unwilling to share their work with others was very proud of hers and thought it was awesome. She was willing to show the class and explain what all the parts were, which is a huge step for her. It was great to see this leap of faith she took with my lesson. If I can make it so that kids learn to have confidence in themselves and their abilities I will feel like I have accomplished something as a teacher.

Coil Pot

My coil pot. For some reason I couldn't get a very good picture of it but I kept the coils on the outside and smoothed the inside. I also painted this one blue and then black because I thought that it would make it look cooler. I also thought it was cool that the height wasn't the same on all sides, I think it makes it look more authentic.

pinch pot

This is my pinch pot. I took close up pictures of the three designs that I used. I painted it green first and then brown because I thought it would make it a cooler and more earthy color.