Art in Minnesota flag design

Design a flag for the "Youth Art Month" competition. Columbia Academy has had two winners for this statewide competition in the last 5 years. Wow!

1. Your design must be "U.S. paper" size (8.5 by 11 inches), horizontally.
2. It must show "minnesota" and "art".
3. Use Illustrator, Photoshop, an ipad drawing app, or a web-based drawing app. You can also draw on paper

Columbia Academy winner Jackie Anderson

Here are some "Minnesota" and "Art" images

Painting and Drawing: Collage Portraits

Mark Bradford

1. Watch presentation and take notes
Rosemary Karuga

Mark Bradford videos (Paradox)

Romare Bearden

2. Explore these websites:

Romare Bearden website

Collage Maker

3. Take a picture of yourself. Save it to the Fowler>Classroom>Paint/Draw folder. Ms. FOwler will print it. Trace onto white paper.

Past student work

Extra Credit: Humanimal collage

Maurice D.

6th Digital Arts Halloween Surreal Self Portraits

We will do a quick project, for Halloween, creating "surreal" self-portraits.

Ms. FOlwer will show you some examples: presentation
6th examples

Video: Creating a Surrel Self Portrait
Halloween Psd Tutorials

To keep these school appropriate, no weapons and go easy on blood or gore.

If you need photos, get them here.

7th Digital Arts: Schoolhouse Rock Musical posters

Your class has been hired to design posters for the musical "Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.".

Research 

First watch some video clips and look at what other designers have done.

Links

Schoolhouse Rock poster designs

Video Clips

I'm just a Bill

A Noun is a person, place or a thing

Conjunction Junction

Unpack your Adjectives

Plan

Sketch an idea. You can design using copy-right free photos, or scan a drawing and edit on the computer

Design

Start by using the template. Go to Fowler-Classroom > Materials and copy the poster template to the desktop.

Evaluate and Critique.

One winner (or more) will be chosen to print professionally. They will also get free admission to the show and a prize!

Write an artist statement and do an online critique.

Videos

Poster Design

6th Digital Art: Mandalas

We will be using Adobe Illustrator to create "mandalas". This project will use art and math skills, along with reflecting on big questions like "what brings you peace?"

1. What is a mandala?
2. Look at some mandalas
3. Vocabulary words: symmetry, icon, serenity, radial, reflection, concentric
4. Videos: Time lapse Tibetan monk mandala, Sand Mandala video, Digital mandala installation
5. How to create concentric elements in Adobe Illustrator

Extra time: Kaleidoscope       Color in Motion       Flowers        The color test

Digital Arts Radio Station

Would you like a radio station for us to listen to during work time?
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Painting and Drawing: Play in Art

PowerPoint

Videos:
Introduction
Ellen Gallagher
Aurturo Herrera


EC drawings
Exquisite Corpse drawing examples

Exquisite Corpse video

Oil pastel blending
Surrealist drawing
Surreal animations

Appropriation defined
Appropriation in Art Video