Do You Fly in the Sky? Do You Fly in the Sea?

Art 4 Visual References


Helpful websites for Ohio Birds and Fish

Ohio Birds

Ohio Fish


Have a Look at "Word Birds"


Art 2 Caricatures: A Walk down Memory Lane

Caricatures: Birds and Fish Examples

Raku Clay Bird and Fish Examples

Memory Story Descriptive Writing

Please read the introduction in this document.  Then create a Google Doc and write a descriptive paragraph. Make sure that you share it with me, so that I can print it for you.  


Memory Story Descriptive Writing

Art 2 Color Scheme Designer Assignment

Color Scheme Designer Website


Mrs Stanforth's Art 2 Class Presentation

Mrs. Carr's Art 2 Classes Presentation 

Mrs. Carr's Art 2 Memory Story Resources for Students

Zombie Self-Portrait

The first in a series of self-portraits....illustrate yourself as a "Zombie."

 

  Some DEFINITIONS

One of the most famous zombie-themed television appearances was 1983's Thriller, a Michael Jackson music video featuring choreographed zombies dancing with the singer. Many pop culture media have paid tribute to this scene alone, including zombie films such as Return of the Living Dead.  

Zombies are fictional undead creatures regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed works. They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and particularly for human brains in some depictions. Although they share their name and some superficial similarities with the zombie from Haitian Vodun, their links to such folklore are unclear and many consider George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead to be the progenitor of these creatures. Flesh-eating zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, all drawing on European folklore of the flesh-hungry undead.

The zombie apocalypse, the civilized world brought low by a global zombie infestation, has become a staple of modern popular art. By 2011 the influence of zombies in popular consciousness had reached far enough that the United States government's Center for Disease Control used the idea as a theme to promote disaster preparedness.

Some RESEARCH SITES:

zombie sketches

How to Draw Zombies

More Tips 

 

 

Zombie Stuff 

 

Zombie Blogs

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Art 4 Sketchbook Research

Sketchbook Websites-- Art 4

Spend some time looking at various examples of sketchbook ideas.

Keep in the following ideas:

Materials

Styles

Techniques for creating continuity from page to page

Themes

These basic things will help you decide what to do with your own “Maze” Book.

Look at these websites before you investigate on the web on your own, please.

http://blog.sketchbookproject.com/


http://gasp2011.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/great-garden-sketchabout-9-revised-plan-for-themed-sketchbook/

http://gasp2011.wordpress.com/category/sydney-sketching/page/11/


http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/p/themes.html

http://danieladistantstitch.blogspot.com/2010/10/chapter-10-investigating-book.html


http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/shereenlaplantz.pdf



http://stamphenge.wordpress.com/minibooks/meander-accordion-folded-book/

OGT Enrichment: Constructing An Image

During the 7 weeks before my school's OGT testing, once a week students attended various one-period classes on Wednesdays, at the end of the school day.  The Art Department decided to team together and provide all juniors and seniors an experience where they would be required to use the four "C's of 21st Century Skills:  Creativity, Collaboration, Cooperation, and Communication.  Senior, Matt Moore produced this video assembling their final "products":  lighted torn paper sculptures.  Each one started as a series of torn paper objects created individually.  From those, students created one construction.  Then students moved places and manipulated the construction in front of them.  Finally, students worked together at their tables to produce one pleasing, and mutually agreed upon paper construction.  Students then lighted their works, and took photos of them from various angles and points of view with their cell phones.  Enjoy!

Teacher Tech Camp: Assignment One

Technology...I am fascinated at how easy it is to do things now in minutes or even seconds that a few years ago would require hours of frustration.  I like to use it.  I need to use it.  It is the language of the new world.  I still NEED to touch and smell art materials, books, and paint, and I get tired of looking at a screen.  You get the idea.  I am a fan of the seeming democracy of the web, the idea that everyone can put themselves out there (good or bad).   While I often miss the touch of books, the use of technology for information, inspiration and communication is boundless.

• In the recent past I have used a blog to create a place where students could complete photography assignments given with a specific prompt.  Currently I want to expand on using a blog with my Art classes.  By attending this class I hope to expand on my knowledge of blog use, and meet other teachers who are using them. Specifically I hope to steal/ borrow some ideas to jump start my Art 4 blog-plan.  I really want it to be awesome.