Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we learned about holidays around the world and how they are celebrated. After which we used glue to put a string on our papers and created lights to put on our string.
Extension Activity: Language Arts is a great extension activity as students can write a story about each of the lights. For example, the first light is purple because I have siblings and they are. . . This could go on for each light.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, students learned about pottery and different artists that work with pottery to create their art. During this time, students were given a proportion of clay that they then formed into three sections, pinch pots. Then, they learned how to join the three together to form the body of a snowman. They painted their snowmen and added arms, faces, and buttons to complete the image.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we learned about great information on patterns and beadwork before diving into our project. Then, we got to create a cob of corn using beadwork and patterns. Then, we created a Thanksgiving placemat that included a pattern as well.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we learned lots of neat information about two artists who work with 2D art. After this, we created a list of 5 personal adjectives that we would use to describe ourselves. From the five adjectives, we chose our top three and then found letters to spell the adjectives from magazines.
Extension Activity: Language arts can be used to create an extension for this activity. Students can write a story about their adjectives that they chose to put on their project.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we learned about drawing which was very informative. After this, we got to draw pumpkins and fill them in with our favorite things about fall.
Extension Activity: An extension to this activity could be from Language Arts. Students would write a short story explaining what they drew within their pumpkin.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we learned about Henri Rousseau and looked at some of his jungle scene artwork. This was super neat to see before jumping into our own project. First, we made red glasses that would be the cherry on top of our completed project. Our next step was to choose our own animal that would be present in a jungle safari. We turned this image upside and began drawing it on our paper with a blue pencil. After completing our animal, we began drawing patterns overtop the animal with warm colors. This covered the animal that we drew with the blue pencil and the neat part is how the pattern overtop the animal makes the animal visible only when wearing our red glasses.
Extension Activity: This could be tied to a science assignment. Students will choose an animal and create their hidden safari drawing. After, they will create a diorama of the habitat their animal would live in. They will create a poster to go with their diorama listing what they eat and three facts about the animal itself.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we used a clear drying glue-like medium to attach tissue paper to a piece of construction paper. This became the background for a landscape idea that was made using different construction paper and then pasted onto the background.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we first read the book The Dot. The child in the story created art pieces that included dots so, this project entailed making our own dots. We were able to choose our own design, color, and coloring supplies. I chose to use crayons, watercolor and oil pastels to make my dot. Using a white crayon, I wrote out the word 'love' in the center of my dot. Then, I used blue crayons to outline the circle of the center of my dot and to create wavy lines coming out from the center of the dot as well. Later, I used pastels to create dots and hearts on the sections created by the wavy lines. Finally, I used watercolor to paint my dot and watched as it worked around the crayons and pastel colors and blended with itself in some areas.
Extension Activity: Students would be able to make their own dot as a practice dot. After this they could make a dot for a mathematics unit where they make it all about positive integers.
Name: Itzel Sanchez
Description: For this project, we made a presentation that described the elements and principles of art. Within that presentation, we had to take photos that portrayed each of the twelve elements and principles. Attached are four of my favorite photos that portray some of the elements of art.
Color ~ This photo was taken in Salamanca, Spain in a walk through museum. It portrays color because there are a variety of hues, values, and intensities.
Value ~ This photo, take in Salamanca portrays value because there are a variety of dark and light colors within the image.
Space ~ This photo of a bookshop portrays space because there are a variety of sizes and you can really feel the area where these books are displayed.
