Art I Self-Portraits

I am sooooo excited to FINALY share these with you. It is one of the proudest moments I have had in teaching!!!   Here are some examples of my Art I acrylic self-portraits.

Did I mention how much I loooooove them!

american gothic parody 2nd semester

south park

elvis and singing minnie 

(yes, the student knew they donald is daisy actual significant other, but she wanted daffy.)

bert and ernie

sponge bob and gary

bugs and daffy

family guy

I have no clue...

I love this project for many reasons, the main one being the students also love it! My one reccommendation is if one student does a couple don't let anyone else do that couple. Otherwise you would have a bunch of sponge bob and patrick american gothics. But, if they come up with a different "couple," then the can repeat one of the cartoons (aka a student can do sponge bob an patrick, and another can do spongebob and gary). I find that by making the students think of different couples helps them be a little more creative with their "couples." I have a few more pics I'll post soon! Here is the first time I did this project.

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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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Cultural Self Portraits and Mystery Monet

The Mystery Monet

Mystery Monet Project was a small section of a famous Monet print that the students glued somewhere on their paper and had to finish the rest. The students really enjoyed making up their painting.

Then, we had to pick out the actually Monet print in which their piece came from and compare.  A nice way to lead into critiques. ( I would have more pictures, but forgot- these were students who were absent the day I passed back the work).

(To start the students picked their section from a box in which they couldn't see in to. They could switch it out once, but if they decided to switch, they had to keep their second pick.)

 Cultural Self-Portrait

students picked a culture to research, and turned themselves into that culture ( respectfully).

again, forgot to take pictures until they were already taken home. 

Collage Pop Art Animals

I really wish I could rotate pictures after I have uploaded them.  Sorry.

Steps:

1. Find an animal pic- print as a 5x7 grayscale.

2. Use grid enlargement to double the size to 10x14

3. Paint the background with a BRIGHT color.

4. Divide animal into sections, leave lower half of animal ( or another part) undone- outline with sharpie.

5. Use paint to create value in a few sections with one color per section (monochromatic).

6. Add texture to a few sections with sharpie.

7. Tear different textures and colors out of magazines and glue down. I also had silver paper they used.

This project took about 3-4 45minute classes.

Some turned out not so hot. It is important to emphasize how they divide the sections to follow the shape of the animal, and to use small torn strips of paper rather than chunks.

American Gothic Parodies

My students loooved this project. I talked a little bit about American Gothic, most students recognized the painting, and then asked each student to pick out a "famous couple." I encouraged cartoons, but they were not limited. I had a list to help them get started, but no one was allowed to do the same thing as someone else. The students were thinking up couples I had totally forgotten about! They then had to decide how to position their character, and what details to include. They penciled in a sketch ( NO TRACING) and the background ( as close to Grant Wood's original as possible). Then paint! I loved this project because it was fairly simple directions.