Art Ed Geek Teaching for Artistic Behavior at Plymouth State University and Beyond

Sketchbook Prompt:

Thanks to http://run2thewild.blogspot.com for the awesome prompt.

Sketchbook Prompt:

Thanks to http://run2thewild.blogspot.com for the awesome prompt.

Sketchbook Prompt:

Go outside and look closely at your surroundings. Fill a blank sketchbook page with one or more sketch studies of what you discover.

Thanks to http://run2thewild.blogspot.com for the awesome prompt.

Sketchbook Prompt:

Trace an object one or more times to create a drawing.

Sketchbook Prompt:

What is your favorite place?

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does this color remind you of?

What name would you give it?

How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does the color “green” mean to you?  What does it remind you of?  How does it make you feel?

Summer Art Fix: All invited to log on for sketchbook idea

Art teacher aims to keep creative juices flowing through summer

Feeling creative? Feeling the summer hours seeping away with nothing to pique your interests but television and the odd beach day?

Ashley Norman has your fix that involves nothing but checking the web and allowing your mind to wander.

It’s call the Summer Sketchbook Spectacular, which Norman herself started at first as a means to connect with friends creatively but then spiraled into something more. Norman is an arts teacher at Costal Ridge Elementary School in York, and has decided that art shouldn’t end with the school year.

As Norman says: “It [art] doesn’t have to be purely academic. I feel like everyone can have an artistic experience.”

As a free art initiative, the project reaches out to participants both young and old. There is a sketchbook prompt on Norman’s blog that allows for participation and interaction as well as freedom to do with the prompt as you wish.

For example, Sunday’s prompt was: “Take an adventure into your backyard. Try to find one thing that you have never noticed before. Make a piece of work about that object or your experience finding it.” On Aug. 17, Norman wrote “What does the color “red” mean to you? What does it remind you of? How does it make you feel?”

Another recent prompt on Norman’s blog was to use the complementary colors yellow and purple and to make a piece of art. She then went on to explain what the term “complementary” means in the artistic jargon, managing to educate while giving artists something to do.

The topics vary in subject matter from idioms to “bad hair days” — all in the hope of broadening people’s perspective of art.

“It’s not just for the visual artists,” Norman said in regards to who should be interested in this project.

“The seacoast has a lot of artists, and they don’t always know the opportunities they have. There is an established community, a lot of which is traditional art as well. My hope is that maybe this will help people break out and also want to reach out.”

Norman isn’t new to the social media means of creating context to work. After college she’d stay in touch with friends and fellow artists with another similar blog that had word prompts instead. She says that she recognizes the helpfulness of networking.

However, her greatest followers may be the students she’ll soon see back in her classroom.

“I have students participating but I want more people to realize it’s out there. I’m just excited to return to the school year in the fall and see the students’ works.”

It’s the difference in the age groups that creates such an all-inclusive nature to this project, like the difference between a 7-year-old’s reaction to the “bad hair day” prompt vs. the 40-year-old’s.

She notes that despite the variety of ideas, she hopes to be all-inclusive.

“It’s really the prompt and how the person is going to take it. I want it to be accessible from 7 to 100 years old.”

Norman herself is trying to keep up with the prompts, too, but finds some more difficult with the schedule she’s juggling.

With two weeks left in the project, she’s already thinking ahead to next summer. “I think I’ll have more of an outreach ahead of time and getting the word out earlier,” she said.

The Sketchbook Spectacular runs until Sept. 2 with an exhibit to celebrate and showcase the art done at Chases Garage opening in October.

Young and old, boys and girls, artistically gifted or creatively stunted, the summer is drawing to a close so why not preserve your thoughts and memories on paper with a little helping hand? Scrapbooks capture time, and the prompts help lay them on the paper.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130821/ENTERTAIN/308210334

Sketchbook Prompt:

Have a friend draw an organic shape on a page in your sketchbook.  Look at the shape in different ways.  Turn your sketchbook around.  What do you see?  Draw into the shape to make something new.

What are geometric shapes?  What are organic shapes?

   1. Geometric shapes:

• Are circles, rectangles, squares, triangles and so on – have the clear edges one achieves when using tools to create them.
• Most geometric shapes are made by humans, though crystals are also considered to be geometric despite the fact that they are made in nature. 

   2. Organic shapes:

• Are shapes with a natural look and a flowing and curving appearance.
• Organic shapes and forms are typically irregular or asymmetrical.
• Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does this color remind you of?

What name would you give it?

How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

Take an adventure into your backyard.  Try to find one thing that you have never noticed before.  Make a piece of work about that object or your experience finding it.

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does the color “red” mean to you?  What does it remind you of?  How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does this color remind you of?

What name would you give it?

How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does this color remind you of?

What name would you give it?

How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does this color remind you of?

What name would you give it?

How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:  

Make a piece of art using the complementary colors:

Red & Green

What are complementary colors?

They are two colors on opposite sides of the color wheel, when you place them next to each other they make the other color look brighter. The complementary color of a primary color (red, blue, and yellow) is the color you get by mixing the other two (red + blue = purple; blue + yellow = green; red + yellow = orange). So the complementary color for red is green, for blue it’s orange, and for yellow it’s purple.

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

gussy up (verb)\GUSS-ee-UP\ 

: dress up, embellish

How do you use it?

Grandma didn’t know we were throwing her to a surprise birthday party, and kept demanding to know why we wanted her to get all gussied up.

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

adhere (verb)\ad-HEER\

1 : to stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or melting

2 : to agree to observe

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

roil (verb)\ROYL\

1 : to make cloudy or muddy by stirring up

2 : to rouse the anger of

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

August

What reminds you of this month?  How does it make you feel?  What does it remind other people of?

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

livid (adjective)\LIV-id\ 

1 : discolored by bruising

2 : pale as ashes

3 : reddish

4 : very angry

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

journey (noun)\JER-nee\  

:travel from one place to another

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT:

tense (adjective)\TENSS\

1 : stretched tight : made taut : rigid

2 : feeling or showing nervous tension

3 : marked by strain or uncertainty

Sketchbook Prompt:

Play it cool.

Sketchbook Prompt:

There’s nothing to it.

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does the color “yellow” mean to you?  What does it remind you of?  How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:  

Make a piece of art using the complementary colors:

Yellow & Purple

What are complementary colors?

They are two colors on opposite sides of the color wheel, when you place them next to each other they make the other color look brighter. The complementary color of a primary color (red, blue, and yellow) is the color you get by mixing the other two (red + blue = purple; blue + yellow = green; red + yellow = orange). So the complementary color for red is green, for blue it’s orange, and for yellow it’s purple.

Sketchbook Prompt:

A whale of a time.

Sketchbook Prompt:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Sketchbook Prompt:

Create a flying machine.

Sketchbook Prompt:  

Make a piece of art inspired by the famous painting:

The Son of Man, 1964
By: Rene Magritte

Sketchbook Prompt:

Sometimes artists like to use words as their inspiration.

Make a piece based on the word: circus

Sketchbook Prompt:

Sometimes artists like to use words as their inspiration.

Make a piece based on the word: circle

Sketchbook Prompt:

Sometimes artists like to use words as their inspiration.

Make a piece based on the word: hoping

Sketchbook Prompt:

What does the color “blue” mean to you?  What does it remind you of?  How does it make you feel?

Sketchbook Prompt:

Sometimes artists like to use words as their inspiration.

Make a piece based on the word: THICK

Sketchbook Prompt:

Sometimes artists like to use words as their inspiration.

Make a piece based on the word: SMASH

Sketchbook Prompt:  

Make a piece of art inspired by the famous painting:

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1829-32
By: Katsushika Hokusai

Sketchbook Prompt:  

Make a piece of art using the complementary colors:

Blue & Orange

What are complementary colors?

They are two colors on opposite sides of the color wheel, when you place them next to each other they make the other color look brighter. The complementary color of a primary color (red, blue, and yellow) is the color you get by mixing the other two (red + blue = purple; blue + yellow = green; red + yellow = orange). So the complementary color for red is green, for blue it’s orange, and for yellow it’s purple.

Sketchbook Prompt:

After listening to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 make a piece of artwork about it.  You may want to listen to it again while you’re working.  How does it make you feel?  What colors pop into your head while you’re listening to it?  What is the mood of the song…happy…sad..concerned…delighted?