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)

Painting and Drawing: Experimentation and Process

We will use a variety of methods and techniques to explore the process of drawing and experimental drawing.

"Play" in Art presentation
Videos:
Art 21: Ellen Gallager, and Arturo Herrera (13:07 mark)
Kevin Champing on "Making Art" Series
Pinterest video links-Fowler



1. Bulletism Drawing

2. Appropriation Collage

3. Directions Collage

4. Exquisite Corpse

5. Humanimal Collage


6. Collaborative Drawing (with tools)