I led the set design for the 2015 Black History Month Performance. I designed and constructed backdrops and props and led groups of students to assist with painting. The performance was covered by a local newspaper which printed full color images of the students performing with props I helped them make.
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Students wrote out the colors on the bottom of their papers and selectively used warm or cool colors.5th Grade Students at Columbus Elementary examined Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night and used the painting as a platform for discussions about space and movement. Students examined space as an element of art and discussed how space or the illusion of space is created within a landscape. Students identified the foreground, middle-ground, and background as essential elements of a landscape which create space or the illusion of distance. Students used this knowledge to create a foreground middle ground and background based on the composition of The Starry Night. Next students examined the movement in The Starry Night and came to the conclusion that movement can being created by controlling the direction of short or long lines. By controlling the direction of strokes of pastels students mimicked the movement in The Starry Night. Students also refreshed their knowledge of painting by reviewing and demonstrating good painting practices including caring for paints, pallets, and brushes. First grade students examined and discussed the artwork of Wassily Kandinsky. Using geometric shapes and rulers, we traced and overlapped shapes in the center of the paper to create an area of focus. Also using crayon to fill color and marker to outline shapes. The last few pictures are of the first project students did in art class this school year, an introduction to drawing geometric shapes and lines with crayons. Special Education Students traced circles, then cut and traced flower petal shapes made from poster board. Then they use rulers to draw strait lines and markers to outline everything before painting. 4th grade students at Columbus Elementary School studied the proportions of a human face before drawing a large generic human face on black paper with pencil. Next students studied movement created with directional strokes in portraits by Van Gogh. By using directional strokes to build up color in their drawings faces students began to make their faces their own. Additional classes were spent examining and exploring Complementary Color and Analogues Colors and students were challenged to selectively use color while still incorporating directional strokes to show movement. |
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