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)

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)

6th Media Arts: Legendary Creatures

Directions

1. Vocabulary

Go to wordcentral.com and look up the definitions to the vocabulary words.

2. Research

a. Mythical Creatures (answer the questions in your packet)

b. Myths, Legends, Fables and Folklore (answer the questions in your packet)

c. Look at these professional examples:

Photoshop Animals 1


Student examples

3. Write
Follow the directions on your worksheet, and us MSWord to write your legend.

4. Sketch

Sketch in your packet

5. Design

Go to Morguefile.com to collect your photos. Copyright law: A Fair(y) Use Tale

VIDEOS

Photoshop animals

How is Photoshop used to trick us? Is anyone model perfect?
PBS Off Book: Photoshop

Disney Legends
The Tortoise and the Hare
Mythical Creatures part 1, part 2
Cows, cows, cows
Animal Planet: Monster Week

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo, Build Your Wild Self, Creature Creator

Painting and Drawing: Still Life

Jonas Wood

1. Perceive Artful Writing: Jonas Wood

Audio Example

2. Research
Still Life Painting-An Introduction from Frank Curkovic

VIDEO

What is contemporary art?
Elements of Art packet
Article: Famous Still Life Artists of the 20th century

KQED Elements of Art Videos

3. Inspiration
     Plant collage Pinterest
     Jonas Wood
Video: Jonas Wood

** Extra Time: MOMA art games

6th Media Arts: Typographic Self Portraits

1. Presentation- What are fonts? 
2. Presentation- Typographic Design
3. Take a look at last year's student projects
4. VIDEOS: Movie "Typolution", An Intro to Typography, What is Typography? Text/textures
5. Writing Assignment- Find and download a font that represents you. Write 3 sentences about why you chose it and how it represents you.
6. Demonstration- creating and starting your project

Typographic" means made of type or letters.

This picture is all letters. Can you figure out

which ones?

• Work time

If you have extra time, try 
Design a Font
Kern Type
Shape Type
Type Fight
Font Game
TypeWar
What Type Are You?

Doodle for Google

Template

Link to contest instructions
Prizes

Past examples

Computer Procedures

1. cagallery.blogspot.com

2. Google.com

3. Saving and Naming Practice

Vocabulary

• Find it Game 

Media Arts Intro Quiz

1. m.socrative.com
2. enter room ca157
3. click "join room"
4. wait for Ms. Fowler to begin

5. Writing Practice: How to be a Critical Viewer

Go to this link. Choose one cigarette advertisement and answer the questions on the screen. When you are finished, sign up on the board so Ms. Fowler can check it.

Try it:

Try these Media Arts activities: Media Studio

Go to these computer knowledge games

8th Media Arts: Monogram Logo Designs

Research and Brainstorming:

1. Watch the presentation on logo design.

2. Look at the websites  and watch the videos below: Logo Lounge,    Simple Logo Designs,   Vintage Logos,   Logo Awards,  Logos 99

Videos: Draplin Logo Design
The Art of the Logo Design (PBS)
Change the Way you look at logos (part 1 buzzfeed)
(part 2 buzzed)
Logo Animation
What makes a truly great logo?
Logo Design Process by Swerve


3. Look through the printed out logo designs on your tables

4. Fill your page with different monogram designs
and go through the folders with samples for some logo design inspiration

Make your Monogram Calling Cards
Choose your final design. Redraw on final template. Draw carefully in pencil first! Be a perfectionist! Go over your lines with Sharpie. On the back of your card, design your phone number or email or screen name or twitter. Some kind of contact info. Create with collage or by hand.

Student Examples

Extra time?
Try
Fontstruct
Shape type
Typing Games
Sky chase

Introduction

Julie Fowler - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

Examples of Media Arts: Portfolio of Media Arts, Polyester Studios

Portfolio of Motion Graphics

One Minute Movie: The History of Media

Media Arts in School: Media Arts Academy
Art Institutes Commercial

What are the Elements of Media Arts? Image, Sound, Space, Motion, Sequence, Time
Examples:
Food Rap "What's Cookin"
To This Day

Media Arts student work examples

Portfolio Designs: Graffiti Names

1. Read article, use HUGS for main ideas: Graffiti is Always Vandalism (NY Times Op Ed)

2. Video: History of Graffiti- Vandalism to Art

3. Video: CBS: Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism?

4. Responding and Forming your opinion:
Museum of the City: Graffiti, Art or Vandalism?

Widewalls- Art or Vandalism?

5. Add your opinion here-debate.org

Video: Graffiti vocal
Video: From Graffiti Artist to Graphic Designer
Video: Bay Area Graffiti


Use Graffiti Creator to design your portfolio

Painting and Drawing: Introduction

Welcome to painting and drawing.

Art is not just about having a great piece of work at the end, it is about the process and what you learn and discover along the way.

What is Art? (Creature Comforts video)

What is art for? Video
What is Art (Short Vimeo video)?
What are 8 ways to look at Art (Prezi)?

Extra time videos: Making Art Series, on themes

For our first exercise, see what you can discover...

Instant Face Maker from FaceHeads on Vimeo.

8th grade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA5x-PdigG8

Closing Questionnaire

6th Grade Letter Illustration

Designers need to understand fonts, typography and lettering styles. Brainstorm 100 ways to illustrate the same letter. Choose one design that you will create on the computer.

Alphabet 100

Inspiration:
Daily Drop Cap
TheTypeFight

Photoshop Drawing

example

Photoshop Drawing:

Create a photoshop illustration of a flower arrangement or a CRAZY hairstyle.

Directions:

1. Research and think of an idea. Use the links:
Google Crazy Hairstyle
Google Flower arrangement

2. Right- Click on one of the images below to open it in a new tab.
3. Drag it to your desktop
4. Drag it on to the Ps (Photoshop) icon
5. Use either the drawing, paintbrush and paint bucket tools to create. or cut and paste parts of copyright-free photos.  Fill your page! There should be little to no empty/white space.
6. Save and turn into the Design flowers/hairstyle folder.
7. You can create a second for extra credit but it must be well made.

Student Survey

7th Media Arts: Franconia Field Trip

Franconia Sculpture Park

Photo assignment: Take some interesting photos at Franconia. Make sure you try different camera angles, try photos of just sculptures, and photos of people. 

South Lion's Park

Photo assignment: Andy Goldsworthy inspired Photographs.

Take a look at the Goldsworthy images, as well as some other land-art installations. Pick 3 to describe. How are they made? What is interesting about them? How were they made? What is the scale (how big)? Etc. Use at least 3 complete sentences.

Land art

More Andy Goldsworthy images

Cornelia Konrads

Videos:

Land art: Creations in Nature

Landthropologic, Earthworks In Motion: Stunning Animated Land Art Experiments by Paul Johnson

Tate Gallery: Land Art. Answer the questions on the worksheet