Romare Bearden

As a class we are going to look at an artist named Romare Bearden. We will be reading the handout in front of you an answering the questions as a class. 

We will be creating our own Ropmare Bearden inspired collage. 

What I want you took concentrate on are the activities and things that surround your community and life style. Just Like Bearden tell us YOUR life STORY.

WORD WORLD

This lesson is going to incorporate more design then anything. Have you ever gazed at the clouds and images started to appear? Have you ever looked at a word long enough and it starts to look unrecognizable? Well if you answered yes, that is exactly what we are going to do with this project. You are all going to create a drawn animal by using the letters that make up that animals name. 

We are going to watch a show that does just this.

Louise Nevelson Born in Russia on September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988. Came to America with her family when she was young. She is considered an  American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces. She called her large found wooden object sculptures "crates".  Louise Nevelson liked to call herself the original "recycler." 

 

Goal- Create and original recycled piece of artwork inspired by Louise Nevelson. Include a eye catching design, and use layers to show depth in your sculpture.

STILL LIFE 

As a class we will be practicing how to draw simple still life objects with ellipses and lines. You are then responsible for drawing all four objects at your table on a 3X3 inch piece of paper.

Goal-

Accurately drawn images

creative angles 

proportionate drawing

accurate shadding

 Kaleidoscope Name Design

Mate­ri­als:

• 2 square pieces of paper the same size (copy paper usu­ally works well)
• Pen­cil and eraser
• Scis­sors
• Black “F” Sharpie
• Col­ored pen­cils or markers

Direc­tions for lower grades:
1. First, fold both of your papers in half diag­o­nally, then in half again. Unfold both of them and set one aside.
2. Cut out one of the tri­an­gles cre­ated by your fold lines on just one of the papers.
3. With the flat edge along the bot­tom and the point fac­ing up, write your name with large stick let­ters so that it fills the entire tri­an­gle.
4. Now, draw an out­line around your stick let­ters to make nice, thick let­ters that touch all three sides of your tri­an­gle. Trace over your pen­cil lines with Sharpie.
5. Next, place the tri­an­gle with your name on it under one of the cor­re­spond­ing tri­an­gles on the other paper. Trace your out­line let­ters with pen­cil onto the new paper. (It can be help­ful to use a light box or even tape your papers to a win­dow for trac­ing. You could also try using a more translu­cent paper if it’s dif­fi­cult to see your lines, although cheap copy paper works great for me.)
6. Con­tinue trac­ing your name onto each sec­tion, flip­ping your name over every other time to achieve a “mir­ror image”. (Flip­ping your name over every other time is essen­tial to achiev­ing a mir­ror image, so don’t for­get this impor­tant step!!)
7. Then, trace over all your pen­cil lines with Sharpie.
8. Color with mark­ers or col­ored pen­cils.

Tuesday

Welcome to Intro to Art

In this class we will explore a wide array of art mediums. We will dibble and dabble with different eras, artists, techniques and cultures. This class is tons of fun, if you are open to trying new things. 

This is your class blog site that I will communicate your weekly lessons on. We will explore the blog today so you fully understand how it can be beneficial to you and your parents.