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| Close-up of Antony's haunted drawing |
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| Angela |
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| Mihika |
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| Britney |
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Showing posts with label art lessons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art lessons. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Wooooo....Haunted Houses!!
Today my students at All-Star Academy drew haunted houses onto watercolored sunsets that they had prepared last week. Then they 'spookiefied' their drawings by adding ghosts, bats, witches, dancing skeletons, etc!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Scenes from Art Start Art Camp - Aug. 6-10
I have the best assistants! Sydney is a former student. Here she's helping the kids fold their shirts for tie-dye:
Jake came up with his own scheme to fold his shirt. I had to push him when applying the dye to get it deep into all those folds but it actually turned out great!
The class all created watercolor paintings of butterflies:
The full day campers focused on jewelry making and t-shirt upcycling as well as painting a beach scene with acrylics:
Jake came up with his own scheme to fold his shirt. I had to push him when applying the dye to get it deep into all those folds but it actually turned out great!
The class all created watercolor paintings of butterflies:
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| Bryce |
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| Jackson |
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| Sara |
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| Kate |
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| Jane |
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| Cami |
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| Kate |
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| Emmy and her finished watercolor |
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| Kate, Nathan and Ian's paintings....gorgeous! |
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| Nathan made the coolest fighter jet. |
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| Best friends Jane and Jackson rocking their new tie-dyed shirts! |
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| Emmy enthralled a group while she showed Sam how to draw Voldemort! |
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| Ian got super creative thinking up cartoon expressions! |
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| Jacob and his Galacta Knight drawing. |
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| Didn't their masks turn out great? |
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| Jake and his camo mask |
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| Erin and Emmy working on bracelets. Emmy went on to made earrings for all the class! |
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| Sophie and her scrabble tile necklaces |
Friday, January 13, 2012
10 Lessons the Arts Teach
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.
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