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Monthly Archives: October 2011
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7th grade @Gimp collage of Perspective drawing student gallery #artsed #edtech #web2.0
7th graders at BWMS were introduced to the concepts of One Point Perspective and Surrealism. In the past, I normally allow the students to draw a room and then cut out images from magazines that would demonstrate the elements of Surrealism into their drawing.
This year, we scanned the original perspective drawings in, which you can FIND HERE by clicking the link to the students’ original work.
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Students would then watch the various GIMP tutorials that I made up so that they knew how to download images, cut them out and insert them into their drawings in the form of a digital collage. Like you may have read in my previous posts, GIMP is an excelent program to edit photos and it is a free alternative to Photoshop.
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Unfortunately, it would seem that the students still had a difficult time watching the tutorials and then creating their collage as a .JPG and post it on Edmodo – but I was really pleased to see the work that they posted here for you to see.
Lions club peace poster contest student class work #artsed
Bwms art students had the distinguished pleasure to be the only students in the county to participate in in the contest
The challenge this year was to use their non-linguistic representational skills and create a poster that showed the theme “children know peace”
Afterwards, the students judged their peers to help pick the poster that best shows the theme for the class, and I then made a poll for students and faculty could vote when I posted it on my blog, edmodo and Facebook fan page. Check out some of the work below
Best bond pic
6th graders make Butterfield Stick Sculptures student gallery #artsed #neolithic #handson
6th graders at Black Water Middle studied the work of Deborah Butterfield, well known Folk artist who makes horse sculptures out of found materials, scrap wood and metal. Students were also studying Hunters and Gatherers in Social Studies, so the art students focused on Cave paintings.
Students collaborated or individually came up with a design that resembled a horse as if they were neolithic people
Day 1 Students safely use tools to create two “A-frames” and then a spine to support their horse. The students had to cut their wood and make exact measurements
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Day 2 – Carefully glue pieces together so that the horse is stable, students should also wrap up cutting of the wood
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Last Day – Students glue pine straw to their work to resemble hair. Finally wrap tape around the horse’s stomach with your name. Display completed work.
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Can you teach perspective with a 3D modeling program? Use @Google SketchUp
Do you want to incorporate 3D modeling in your class? Check out my Yahoo Voices article Teaching Sculpture on iPods
Here is a collection of images that my students made utilizing Google Sketch Up. They got most of their information on the video tutorials provided by Google Sketch Up and they were able to modify and/or use pre-existing models that were uploaded to the Google Sketch Up model library. When the students were done, they also had the option to add their work to the library and share their work with the world.
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My students and I recently mentioned in the @thesunnews for our work in #Horry Lion’s Club #artsed
James Gorcesky has sent you the following story:
This article talks about the work the students and I are doing in preparation for the Lions Club Peace Poster contest. Thanks for the plug Naomi! 😀
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
Central Strand Notebook | Eat spaghetti, help Lions
By By PeggyMishoe
The Carolina Forest Lions Club is offering a homemade spaghetti dinner and the opportunity to assist the club in its efforts to help others in the local community on Oct. 24 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The “A Night in Tuscany” fundraiser will be held at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 2105 U.S. 501, across from Horry Georgetown Technical College. Dinners are $7 for adults and $4 for children age three to 10. Dine in or take out.
There will be door prizes, a silent auction and a traveling accordionist to provide mood music for the occasion.
8th grade Linear Perspective student gallery work Falll ’11 #artsed #perspective #artlesson #horry
8th grade BWMS students learned the basics of linear perspective from observation and guided instruction when they had to draw from the hallway outside my classroom. I try to tell them that perspective is one of the most valuable tools any artist will ever need. Click on some of the pics to see why:
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We actually spent a day or two on perspective prior to this, but I think it helped for them to understand the connection between doing a Dilation in Math class and the repetitive process of creating a checkerboard.
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Middle School Art Online & Creative Writing 