December: Line
Project: Geoff Slater Continuous Line Drawing Project
This project will challenge students to create a scene using one continuous line. Students will learn how line can create shape and depth, and infer movement and texture in a composition.
Line Painting is a method using a single line of that changes color to creating an image that never touches or crosses itself.
Written by Geoff Slater, a contemporary artist.
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January: Color
Project: Warhol Camouflage T-shirts
Students will be introduced to acrylic paint and use them to create camouflage designs on paper, t-shirt templates. The various properties of color, including hue, value, tints and shades will be discussed. Students will tint and shade the color of their choice and paint a monochromatic color scheme on their shirt templates. The artist Andy Warhol will be discussed.
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February: Shape
Project: Geometric to Organic
The British artist Andy Goldsworthy uses natural materials such as brightly-colored flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns to create his art work. Many of his pieces of art are these materials turned into geometric shapes. Photography plays an important role in his art because of the material’s tendency to change. According to Goldsworthy, “Each work grows, stays, decays—integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit.”
Example of the 3rd Grade Shape Project for November
As Andy Goldsworthy makes geometric shapes out of natural materials, our project will be to make organic shapes out of geometric shapes.
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March: Clay
Project: Coil Pots
Students learn the technique of creating coils by rolling out the clay, then use the coils as a base element for creating a dimensional pot.