Art Portfolio

1#1  The project that I made today was a sculpture using, toothpicks, Styrofoam like puffs, a Styrofoam cup, plaster strips, clay. We were able to create whatever we wanted with these materials as long as it was on top of the styrofoam cup. At the end we were then to combine all of our groups sculptures together to create a theme. Our theme was music so we made a band and I turned my sculpture upside down to resemble a trumpet.   #2 I had never used the plaster strips until today, they were very interesting, you dip them in water and then form them into what you want as they harden into place. This project can be very versatile when it comes to different cultures when we were asked at the end to transform our individual sculptures into a group sculpture it could have been anything from anywhere. You could have used cross curriculum here and had one of us make a science sculpture, one person can make a social studies sculpture, another person can make a gym relate...

#1 This week we were given instructions that were broad and we could choose what order we did them in. We were given the instructions to draw on three separate pages an organic shape, geometric shape and a recognizable shape. One shape needed to be close to the whole page, one close to half of a page and one close to a quarter of a page (small, medium, large). Then we were to cut out these shapes. Next, we were to use 3 different textures to fill each shape. We could use, crayon rubbing, wallpaper, random material (tissue, and cloth) #2 Today I learned how texture can be shown in a variety of ways. When I previously user to think of texture I used to think of the word bumpy and when I run my fingers along it i thought I had to really be able to feel bumps. Today taught me that it doesn't always need to be bumpy, but it could be silky, smooth, rough, soft etc.  #3Throughout todays lesson I communicated the feeling of life. I took three random shapes and put them toge...

#1 This week we made portraits using the art form of drawing techniques. We took a piece of paper and split it portrait way. We then chose two of the four artists we learned about. The four artists we learned about were Mondrian whose style was straight lines, with some of the squares coloured in using only primary colours. Matisse whose drawings were very colourful. Picasso whose drawings with abstract and unusual, usually consisted of splitting up the artwork into multiple pieces and rearranging it slightly. Picasso used bring colours. The last artist was Van Gogh who used short little brush strokes over top of each other to create his drawings he used multiple colours as well. For my portrait I chose to use Van Gogh and Mondrian. I split my page in half, and on the left I used Van Gogh’s technique of little brush strokes accept we were using oil pastels. On the right hand side I decided to use Mondrian’s technique of straight lines and primary colours. #2 In today’s art lesson I l...

March 7 th 2019  #1 Today we did grade 4 drawing exercises and activities – exercises “drawing is a practice”. As teachers we should give our students a  list of things to draw, give them a drawing book and allow then to have 5 minutes at beginning or end of the day to freely draw. Allow them to pick anything on the list or their own creations. Drawing something different every day and allow us as teachers to get an observation as to where they are at and where they are going. We learned many different drawing techniques today the first was to train you eye look at a bulletin board and draw the shapes on it, this is called mental measuring. Which is a good connection with the mathematics curriculum, using: symmetry, measuring, etc.  Give them little activities for example we drew the bulletin board, then we drew our route from our parked car to how we got to our classroom using a pencil. Next we chose a different drawing option, I chose a charcoal pencil. ...