Watercolor Flowers

We will create a watercolor painting inspired by Vincint Van Gogh's "Sunflowers"

Videos

Vincent Van Gogh Biography



Van Gogh Cartoon
Paintings stolen and recovered
Loving Vincent trailer
Behind the scenes of Loving Vincent             

1. Research:

- National Gallery Sunflowers: symbols of happiness
- Van Gogh Museum: Why are Van Gogh's Sunflowers so famous?
- The Art Story: Van Gogh's life and work

2. Plan

- Watercolor Techniques
- Small watercolor paintings of fruits/vegetables, from observation

3. Create

- Choose a nature photo to paint
-Use the techniques you've practiced

Extra:

                                Sunflower Matching Game
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Rise Up Postcards

Design a postcard to be sent home to families of students who show "Rise Up" qualities.
Steps:
1. Open the template from the "Materials" folder
2. Design a background graphic, or download a photo to use here
3. Make sure you include "Rise Up" or "and I'll rise up" or something similar
   - You can also include the words for RISE UP: Respect, Integrity, Strength, Excellence,
      Understanding and Pride
4. Download fonts here
5. Save and turn in to "Hand in work" folder

8th Media Arts: Type Motion Graphics

How can typography (the art of designing letters and words) bring a sentence to life? We will be creating typographic movies of a favorite quote, saying, line from a movie or song lyric.

Research and Planning

Go the the Graphic Design Dictionary and write the definition for some key terms.

font, frame, graphics, layers, opacity, pixel, RGB, typography

History of Animation and Motion Graphics (Off Book PBS)

Pick a song lyric, a line from a movie, a quote or a famous saying. You want people to get it so pick something recognizable, or something emotionally powerful. The more words the longer it will take to make it, so stick with something short.  Try for between 6 and 12 words. If you need some ideas, try 100 Songs Best Lines, ThinkExistSongLyrics, RollingStoneBestLyrics ,  famous quotes, inspirational quotes, famous lines from movies or search on your own.

All of the Lights

Off Book: Typography

Typographic motion graphics video examples.

Create

1. Sketch a storyboard (plan out what will go on each slide).
2. Download fonts and background graphics. All images must be copyright free!

Design

Follow Ms. Fowler's demonstration.

Present

Online and to the class

Reflect and Critique

You will participate in a class critique and use a critique form to evaluate classmates.

Student Examples 1 
Student Examples 2
Student Examples 3

Convert a youtube video into an mp3 for your project here

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6th Media Arts: Video Haiku

1. Complete the introduction worksheet on haikus
2. Go to ReadWriteThink to plan your own haiku
3. Write it down
4. Storyboard your haiku
5. Design your backgrounds and images in Adobe Illustrator
6. Optional: Download vector graphics here
7. Put together your you pictures with music and words in iMovie

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Painting and Drawing: Parody art

Very famous works of art are often parodied in pop culture. We will research parody and create our own parody drawing.

1. What does parody mean?
2. What is pop culture?
3. Watch the presentation and label each famous work of art.
4. Create some sketches of your parody ideas.
Famous Art Parody Google search
Famous Art Parodies 1

Videos:

Apple Store
The Scream Parodies
American Gothic Parodies
Small Potatoes
Weird Al "Word Crimes"
Best of Weird Al
Education Parodies

Lesson: Art Parodies

Parody Song

Objective:

Students will create an educational parody based on a popular song they already know and like.

Procedures:

❶ Divide into small groups of 2-4 members.

❷ Distribute Parody Writing Worksheet.

❸ Review the worksheet

❹ Choose your song, and look up the lyrics on your computer or tablet

❺ Listen to the original song and replace the lyrics with new ones.

❻ You may record or perform their parodies if you would like too!

Create Digital Parody Art:

1. SONG
How to write a silly parody song
Song Lyrics Generator
Automatic Song Generator

2. Motivational Poster Parody
Original Motivational Posters
DEMotivational Poster Parody Maker

3. Parody a popular meme
Make a MEME

Extra time:
What is your famous painting IQ?
"Painting Puzzles"
Color with Leo
Art Games
jibjab.com (login: fowlerj@colheights.k12.mn.us, password: columbia)

Wednesday, Nov. 30th: One Hour of Code + Activities

1. Go to: https://hourofcode.com/us/learn

2. Complete an activity appropriate for your grade and skill level.

3. Screenshot your certificate when you are done: Window key + shift + 4

4. Name it "your last name code" and copy to the hand in work folder.

5. Extra time:
Try Code Combat

Design a Tile

Block pattern
Symmetry Artist

6th Sketch Up Sculptures

Research:
1. 2. 3. Go to THIS PAGE for sculpture videos and examples. Ms. Fowler will present.
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (new sculptures)

CA Franconia Trip

Franconia Video
Olympic Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Creator's Project Underwater Sculpture park
Theo Jansen

Sculpture Garden websites:
Walker Sculpture Garden
Franconia
Olympic Sculpture Park

4. Outdoor Sculptures

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

6. Pick two random adjectives to incorporate into your sculpture.

Past student examples
Franconia sculpture park videos

Design:Google Sketch-Up tutorial video

Extra Time games:
HomeStyler,       3Dtin,     My Imaginary City

6th Media Arts: Crazy School lunch

You will be using Adobe Photoshop to create a "Super Crazy School Lunch"

For your CRAZY lunch, you will add pictures of food (or other things) to turn it into a "Super Crazy School Lunch." Choose a theme for your lunch tray (for example: gross lunch, bear lunch, treasure lunch, zombie lunch, dream lunch, alien lunch, shark lunch, etc.).

1. What is the THEME of you lunch tray?
2. What 5 (or more) items will you put on your Crazy lunch tray? 

Extra Credit: Design a Healthy Lunch. Include a food from each category: Dairy, Grains or starches, Meat or beans, Vegetables, Fruits.

8th Media Arts: Sound

Videos

1. What is a foley artist?
2. Foley artist CBS News
3. Vimeo, Portrait of a Sound Design artist
4. Music Technology
Extra:Audio Engineer and Producer: Chris Monsanto
Parody: How to be a music producer

Research

1. Vocabulary
2. Pick a famous music producer. Write a few sentences about them.
3. Read Jay Z article and answer questions.

Optional, Radio story: NPR Godzilla Sound

Making your soundtrack- videos:
Air Music Video
Bon Iver, Hinnom, TX
Garageband Sample Dance Track
Student Example Video
Jordan, 6 year old
Artists and bands who use garageband

Choose a video

1. Find the Materials folder in the Fowler Classroom folder with the "public domain" videos.
2. Or, if you have extra time, download a video from the Moving Image Archive
 * Download as a MP4 file or a Mpeg. Follow Ms. Fowler's directions to either loop it or edit it to make it between 1:30 and 2:00 minutes.

Garageband Help

You tube, Working with loops Video

GarageBand Manual

EXTRA TIME:
Audio Sauna
Button Bass
Incredibox
Patatap
Soundation
Soundtrap

Painting and Drawing: Folk Art and Zentangles

1. Research. First research "Folk Art" Use the links below

1. What is folk art?
2. Go to the American Folk Art Museum, or the International Folk Art Museum website.  or the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Choose an artist. Answer the questions on the worksheet.
3. Videos: Emilio Sosa Medina,   Oaxacan weavers,   Tanya Aguiniga   Contemporary folk art of Oaxaca,      Video 1 (extra)
4. Research folk art from your own culture. Choose one example and sketch it on your worksheet.
5. What is a zentangle?
6.  Research Zentangle patterns

2. Pick and practice drawing an animal
     What is your Spirit Animal?
     Primal Zodiac
     WeDrawAnimals.com

3. Create a landscape background.

• Collage with simple shapes. Hills, trees, streams, etc.
• Draw in zentangle patterns.

4. Add your animal

• Start with simple shapes. Draw in pencil. Fill your page.
• Go over with Sharpie. Erase pencil lines.
• Fill with zentange patterns.
• Cut out and place on your background.

Past student work.

Zentangle Animals

8th Media Arts: Artist-inspired Self Portrait

Kehinde Wiley "Dee and Ricky"

We will be creating a self-portrait inspired by the artists Gustav Klimt and contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley

1. Complete 4 of the "Perceive Model" of questions, regarding the Kehinde Wiley painting "Dee and Ricky"

2. Read about Gustav Klimt and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Kehinde Wiley images
3. Kehinde Wiley Video

4. Klimt Video (optional: Art Nouveau presentation)

Klimt's portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" sold for $158 million, 
about the 10th highest in history

5. Compare and Contrast

6. Start your design. Watch the demonstrations and follow the directions on your worksheet. Video: How to use patterns in Photoshop

Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"

Download Photoshop Patterns

7. Look at some past student work.

If you have extra time, explore iKlimt or Color a Pattern, or More Kehinde Wiley (NPG)
More About Gustav Klimt

Additional videos: Kehinde Wiley on MSNBC, Kehinde Wiley in Jamaica

Kehinde Wiley "Juliette en Camier"

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8th Media Arts: Annie Jr. Poster Design

Google Annie Jr. Posters
Stages Theater Company's Cast
Stages Annie Jr. Compilation

You can draw your own artwork on paper to scan, or in Photoshop. You can download copyright free photos to use. Change the fonts, colors and layout of the template!

Annie Jr. Summary

The Universal Arts of Graphic Design (PBS Off Book Video)