Prompt:
Sit outside in the grass for five minutes. What did you see at the start…the middle…the end? Draw what you saw or something about the experience that inspired you.
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 10
Prompt:
Draw something that you find in a drawer.
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 8
Prompt:
Explore the color RED! How does it make you feel? What does it remind you of?
You can make something abstract, realistic, or a design. Bottom line, have fun!
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 7
Prompt:
Explore the color BLUE! How does it make you feel? What does it remind you of?
You can make something abstract, realistic, or a design. Bottom line, have fun!
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 6
Yesterday I had a chance to see the work of Sol LeWitt in person at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA.
Prompt:
Look at the work of Sol LeWitt and then create a piece of art inspired by it. How does he use lines? How does he use color? What happens when you put one color next to different colors? Do they look the same? Do they look different? What happens when you layer colors in a pattern?
Here is a link to his work at Mass MoCA:
http://www.massmoca.org/lewitt/
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 5
Prompt:
Draw something from an ant’s point of view.
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Jun 14
Summer Sketchbook Spectacular 2014: Day 1
Prompt
“There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.” -Bob Ross
Using the 4.5”x6” mistake given to you last week or one that you have at home turn it into a “Happy Accident.” There is no right or wrong. Use your imagination and shape it into something else.
Example
Before: Mistake
After: Happy Accident!
P.S. If you don’t have a mistake lying around the house you could ask a family member or friend to do a quick squiggle make on a page and work from there. Have fun and happy summer!
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Apr 14
Dale Chihuly Inspired Sculptures: Part One
This week my second graders began to learn about American glassblower Dale Chihuly. We started the lesson by watching a few short videos on him, his work, and glassblowing as a medium.
Here are the links to those videos:
- Intro to Dale Chihuly by Plum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ETJhw9_B_X4
- Time Lapse of Fire and Water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=hW18CBPGFT0
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Gathers (1990’s RISD):
- Through the Looking Glass @ the MFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fNVo3Vp5VOQ
- Through the Looking Glass @ MFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=-FiB3AaQ3DI
- Dale at Cheekwood (Short Intro Modern Blowing)http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Bj0JrYJmO8U
Before watching the video everyone took out their sketchbooks. I asked the students, “Why would we want our sketchbooks out while we watch a video about an artist?”
Students answered:
“So we can draw artwork we like.”
“So we can draw what we are inspired by.”
“So we can write down a question.”
“So we can write down something he said.”
Lesson Vocabulary:
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Glassblowing
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Dale Chihuly
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Installation
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Sculpture
- 3D
- Form
- Inspiration
Teacher Resource:
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Dec 13
Winter Fun in the CRES Studio, 2013
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- Shark with Snow Boarder
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- Collaboration
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- Snowman
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- Further exploration of Expressionist painting.
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- Textured paper, hole punched, and mounted.
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- Textured paper, hole punched, and mounted.
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- Creature
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- Bugs from observation.
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- Collage Center Exploration
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- Room Sign
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- Collage Center Discovery
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- Mask
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- Santa’s Sleds
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- Blocks
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- Minecraft
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- Minecraft
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- Minecraft
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- Log House
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- Architecture Through Blocks
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Dec 13
2nd Grade is falling in love with Collage!
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- “Ants”
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- This student textured her paper, hole punched it, and then mounted it on lavender paper to create contrast.
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- This student discovered she could create a pair of glasses by using an “L” and an “O” stencil.
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- Ava’s basketball man inspired Jamie’s baseball man.
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- “Parrot”
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- Meet Mr. and Mrs. Claus!
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- “Penguin”
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Dec 13
2nd Grade Expressionist Paintings, 2013
Students looked at the work of famous expressionists from the early 20th century. They were then asked to use complementary colors to create as many hues of a color as they can. They then embellished their paintings with it’s primary compliment.
When you mix complimentary colors together they make them neutral. When you put them next to each other they make each other stick out.
These are some great color videos that we watched before starting the paintings.
“Three Primary Colors”, OK Go
The Ballad of Red and Green
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Nov 13
Buoy and Still-Life Group Drawings, 2013
This group drawing was created by some of our 4th graders. First students studied Chuck Close and his use of positive and negative space in his gridded portraits. Then students did several drawing exercises honing their skills with both looking at, and drawing using negative space. Finally, each student was given their own 3/4”x 3/4” photo to enlarge onto a 6”x6” square.
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Oct 13
Collaboration: Our Community, York, ME, Mrs. Peterson’s 2nd Grade
Our second graders have been studying what makes up a community in their classrooms. In art we have been talking about what it means to collaborate and be part of a community. The second graders in Mrs. Foster’s class did a fabulous job of brainstorming all of the amazing things that make up our community here in York, ME.
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Oct 13
Fibers Center
This student is working on embroidering a head for his puppet in the Fibers Center.
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Sep 13
Begining of the Year Self-Portraits, 2013
Each year we start off with a beginning of the year self-portrait.
At the end of the year, students in the 4th grade do another self-portrait to see how much they’ve grown as artists.
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Sep 13
Day 74: September 2, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
Find objects in the room you are in that are made out of squares.
List, photograph, or draw them.
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Sep 13
Day 73: September 1, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
After listening to Philip Glass’ Metamorphosis #2 make a piece of artwork about it.
You may want to listen to it again while you’re working. How is it different from Metamorphosis #1? How is it the same? 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? Do your lines help tell the story?
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Aug 13
Day 72: August 31, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
After listening to Philip Glass’ Metamorphosis #1 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? Do your lines help tell the story of the song?
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Aug 13
Day 71: August 30, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
What does the color “purple” mean to you? What does it remind you of? How does it make you feel?
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Aug 13
Day 70: August 29, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
Find objects in the room you are in that are made out of circles. List, photograph, or draw them.
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Aug 13
Day 66: August 25, 2013
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.
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Aug 13
Day 65: August 24, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
Trace an object one or more times to create a drawing.
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Aug 13
Day 63: August 22, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
What does this color remind you of?
What name would you give it?
How does it make you feel?
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Aug 13
Day 62: August 21, 2013
Sketchbook Prompt:
What does the color “green” mean to you? What does it remind you of? How does it make you feel?
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Aug 13
Summer Art Fix: All invited to Log on for Sketchbook Idea
Summer Art Fix: All invited to log on for sketchbook idea
Art teacher aims to keep creative juices flowing through summer
By Ally Johnson
yorkweekly@seacoastonline.com
August 21, 2013 2:00 AM
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