dolla dolla bills

These are from last semester. I had the students redesign the dollar bill. I gave them a print out with facts about the dollar, and things to include in their designs. They chose what medium they wanted to color them.

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Rotating Color Wheel

The other art teacher at my school did these last semester and I thought they were fantastic. Sooo it was what I started this semester off with. I printed off a worksheet with the pieces already drawn on them. The students then cut the pieces out and traced them on a piece of poster board. We then divided the circle like a clock (12 & 6, 9&3, then 1 &2, 4&5, 7&8, 10&11) and used a ruler to connect opposite numbers. I then had them outline everything in sharpie and had a discussion on how to lable the colors, starting with primary, then secondary, then intermediate. The arrows were labled as complimentary, triad, and split compliments. I explain the color schemes after they painted and assembled the color wheel. They paint the color wheel, then paint the arrows with textures, and cut everything out. Assemble with brad- color wheel on bottom, then split compliment arrow, then triad, then complimentary. I then explain the arrows by having them point the compliment arrow to a color and they tell me what the compliment is. I did this with all of the arrows and also explain analogous colors. They then use this for their next project...coming up next!

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Celebrity Mosaics

Here are the mosaics my 9 th graders have been working on for almost 3 weeks...in between 12 snow days. Well the semester is over and as you can see...not done. A few of my students are coming in after school to finish, but I have been dying to post progress pics. A few are done.

some famous soccer player?

lady gaga (not finished)

Marilyn Manso (not finished)

Reese Witherspoon

Jeffrey Stars???(not finished)

Prince Royce (not finished)

Hillary Duff (not finished)

Taylor Lautner (almost finished!)

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google redesign

This was an on the fly, filler project. The rules were to redesign the google search logo using a theme. I showed them a few designs google has done for holidays, olympics, artists, etc. I got some pretty cool designs!

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Google has gone Cezanne!

I love Paul Cezanne! ( Today is his birthday-1839) and google is honoring it.

Which reminds me of a project I did with my students I need to upload!

slab pottery

I am not much of a clay artist, but of course that is most students favorite thing to do. At the beginning of the year, I get asked at least 5 xs..."when do we get to do clay?" I usually save it until late in the year, for many reasons. At the intermediate school where I teach, we have TONS of clay stuff, because the previous teacher was a clay queen. So here are the steps to slab pottery:
You will need:
Large pieces of canvas
Two thin strips of wood these same height (1/4 inch)
Rolling pin
2-3 lbs of white clay
Plastic snowflakes, fake leaves, or anything else with a neat texture(lace)
Diff. Sized Bowls, leftover styrofoam from frozen meats- cleaned of course!
Steel wool
Kiln
Glaze

Steps:
Wedge and compress clay on canvas
Roll out clay between sticks on canvas. The sticks are to prevent your clay from being rolled too thin or thick, and help to achieve a more even slab.
Initial bottom of slab
Stamp in snowflakes, leaves, lace, etc until you have desired look.
Place slab in bowl or styrofoam platter to give slab a dip or to mold the slab into bowls/platters.
Let dry in molds until bone dry.
Sand down until smooth with steel wool or synthetic rough kitchen pads.
Fire on bisque setting.
Dab a darker glaze into snowflake grooves- its ok if it gets on the smooth part of your pottery
wipe down with damp sponge
Paint with a lighter glaze the rest of your pottery or dipp it in clear if you want it to be white.
Glaze fire
Wahla! Beautiful pottery awaits you!

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must take pics!

My camera is done...so I only have my camera phone...the good thing its 8megapixles and its always charged. However, the first semester is about to end and I have at least 10 projects I need to upload! I decided to do the celtic project with my art ones from now on.

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Art Directory

If your like me you use the blog-o-sphere for inspiration for your art classes. Well, I came across this on Vivid Layers blog and would like to invite you to join!

1. Marcia Beckett	2. Greg Percy	3. Mini Matisse	4. Barb's Students	5. The Teaching Palette	6. Artspiration
7. eleni	8. Mrs. Picasso's Art Room	9. Trish ackerman	10. Use Your Coloured Pencils	11. Art Makes Kids Smart	12. Draw, Paint, and Cut
13. LeAnne	14. Katie Morris	15. Art on the Move	16. The ART of Education	17. Rachel Motta	18. Tami Smith
19. Waitsfield Elementary Art	20. Fayston Elementary Art	21. Barb's Thought of the Day	22. Tana	23. Art Teachers Hate Glitter	24. Stuck In The Mud Pottery
25. phyl	26. Lines, Dots and Doodles	27. Mary	28. Kthomas	29. Kathy	30. Artful Artsy Amy
31. Art with Mrs. Smith	32. ARTolazzi	33. Studio-Kids	34. Lori	35. Laura	36. we heart art
37. NancieKay	38. OZKIDZ ARTZ	39. Gallery2404	40. Her Dabbles	41. mary ellen	42. Fine Lines
43. Jen Matott	44. Janie B	45. Jodi	46. Kati Walsh	47. Karen	48. Megan Swartz
49. Patty Palmer	50. TishaLou	51. BeccaRuth	52. Maggie Bandstra	53. School at St. George Place Creation Station	54. Jacquelien Bredenoord
55. Karen Bosch	56. Lisa Winkler	57. Lori K	58. Jeanne Bjork	59. Digital Sojourns	60. GT Art Room
61. artteachergirl	62. Jacqueline Cassidy	63. Roderick Vesper	64. High School Art	65. Ms. I's Artroom	66. Mme Reddick
67. Mme Reddick	68. Natalie	69. Deanne Tepen	70. DATA Di	71. Nicole D.	72. nicole sisco heller
73. destiny Breault	74. shine brite zamorano	75. Anna Pietrolungo	76. The Dot	77. A Faithful Attempt	78. Artmuse67
79. This Little Blog of Mine	80. stacy spangler	81. jennalee	82. Hannah	83. Aileen Wilson	84. in art class
85. Beth	86. Wilkinson's Wonderful World of Art	87. My Adventures in Positive Space	88. Beth Hurley	89. claudiaj	90. Christy Branham
91. Visual Thinker/Digital Learner	92. Mr. R.	93. Art is the Best Part of the Day