Painting and Drawing: "The Giver" Project

ART + WRITING, based on the movie "The Giver"

Ringling Collage Creative Awards Contest

1. Watch the movie "The Giver"
2. Write 100 words or less, complemented by a supporting illustration.
What theme in THE GIVER relates to you personally, your community, your goals, or other aspects of your life? Students can identify a theme from the movie, movie script, the book, the trailer, or the synopsis of the movie.

Themes

Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

Entry Examples

"The Giver" Art and Illustrations

Scholastic

What career would you be assigned

At the Window

Deep Space

Painting and Drawing: Observational drawing

Are you more right-side or left-side of the brain?
(this theory has been disproven, has more to do with brain networks, but for fun we will try it)

1. Warm Up: Picasso line drawing
2. Presentation on "Observation in Art" take notes
3. Try contour line drawings
4. Choose your animal photo from Morguefile.com
5. Left brain/right brain games

• Take the Color text (left brain/right brain)
• Left-brain/Right-brain quiz
• Are you left-brained or right-brained?

6. Practice finding shapes in an animal

7. Practice drawing your animal

8. Create a value scale

9. Draw your animal. Start by lightly drawing shapes. Use all of the values. Cover your paper with detail.

Drawing from Nature: James J. Audubon Movie

Audubon Society website

Other Observational Artists:

Melanie Norris

Zaria Forman

Donna Brass

Jen Mann

7th Fashion Design

Vocabulary
Use the dictionary on your computer to find the definitions to the following words: symmetry, geometric, organic, pattern, ornate, textile, client, mass market.
Research

Try the two activities linked from caarts.blogspot.com

1. Symmetry Activity
   
2. Organic and Geometric Shapes
3. Patterns 
4. Practice making some patterns

Now lets look at some examples of print and pattern designs. Go to: Print and Pattern. Look through all of the examples (you can also go through the archives). Pick 3 and describe them. 

printallover.me

Look at some Columbia Academy student work

Follow the directions on your worksheets to design 3 different patterns and apply them to 3 different items. Have fun!

Create a glogster inspiration board for your fashion designs.

NEXT: Create an original fashion design! Ms. Fowler will give you directions

EXTRA TIME ACTIVITIES:
Champion Hoodie Remix (design a hoodie)

Nike iD (design a shoe)

Spread Shirt (Design a T-shirt)


Videos

The Art of Making Red Dress

fashion career

Advice on becoming a fashion designer

Parsons Fashion Design
4-year old Fashion Designer


Student Examples:
Fashion Designs
Fabric Designs

Haute Couture
"high sewing"

6th Media Arts: Sketch-Up Sculpture

Claes Oldenburg sculpture at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

Research:
1. 2. 3. Go to THIS PAGE for sculpture videos and examples. Ms. Fowler will present.
Sculpture Garden websites:
Walker Sculpture Garden
Franconia
Olympic Sculpture Park

4. Outdoor Sculptures

CA students at the Walker Sculpture Garden

5. What is scale? Scale (Element of art)

6. Pick descriptive words

Past student examples

Design:

Google Sketch-Up tutorial video

Extra Time games:

HomeStyler
Architect Studio 3D (might not work)
My Imaginary City