Hidden Safari

Can you find me?

In this picture, I drew a picture of a elepant upside down.  You want to use a little blue colored pencil to get the best effect.  The lighter you draw your lines that easier it will be to hide the animal.  After you draw your picture you want to use warm colors to hide your animal.  You want to create patterns that distract your eyes.  Lines that are both horizontial and vertical are great.  Geomentric shapes that are colored in are good, but when you color them in try not to create the shapes on the lines of the animal becasue it makes it eaiser to see.  When drawing shapes to distract the eye you want to make them diffent sizes as well.  After finished with the picture you can view the animal with glasses that are tinted red.  When you use the red glasses it doesn't distract the naked eye from seeing the animal.  The glasses in a way block out the warm colors and then the cool colors stand out. 

Extention:
In a Science class, the teacher could use this activity to explain how certain animals hide themselves from other animals in the wild. The teacher can talk about why animals hide themselves and the importance.  Students could create there own animals and they could give clues to the other students.   After the activity is complete the teacher could then display the students work with different colored glasses and the title of the board could be, "I hide to stay alive!"

Eric Carl Story Illustration



First I took white paper and painted different colors on it and then let that dry.  I painted several different sheets with different colors to create the color of my drawings that I made to go on my story page.  I created a page of a butterfly that meets a flower that later becomes here new best friend.  The story is about a butterfly that is lonely and can never find a friend to talk to, so on a bright summer day she was flying this beautiful flower said "hello!"  And from then on they were friends and played every day.


Extension:
I would have my student create a page for a classroom book.  Each page will be about either the activities they did, field trips they went on, assemblies they seen, or things they learned in the classroom.  They would still use the Eric Carl techniques but their pages would be about what happened that year in school!

Van Gogh Tissue Collage

Night Life

It is my interpretation of what a city is like at night.

·         The steps to complete this project:

o   First I took tissue paper and made coils from different color tissue paper.

o   Then I cut out waves of pink and orange. 

o   After cutting out all the movement shapes I wanted, I than began pasting down the tissue paper with acrylic paste to a sheet of construction paper.

o   While that was drying I created 3D sky scrapers using chalk.

o   When the tissue paper was dry, I used oil pastels to outline the movement in the project. 

o   Once that was complete I than glued on my city and my project was complete. 

·         An Extension activity:

o   Have the student’s put on an exhibit.

§  The community could be invited and you could have each student explain their art piece when the people walked around.  You are allowing the students to learn and teach at the same time.  I think this would be a great idea for 5^th and 6^th grade students.

The Van Gogh Finger Painting

Fireside

It is my interpretation of a campfire.
·         The steps to complete this project:

1. Movement has to be created in the picture, so I took my fingers and started making blue swirls for the sky.
2. After the sky was dry and complete, I made a yellow sun.
3. The next step was creating the fire.  I used red, orange, and yellow paint.  And pulled my fingers across the paper towards the top.  This created movement in my fire.  
4. I took blue, black, and white and swirled it around in the sky.  This was the smoke from the fire.  I used more black and white then blue. 
5. Grass and the fire were logs were the last part of my project to complete the painting.
6. After I let dry I than framed it with construction paper.

An Extension to this activity:

• Students could right reflect about the feelings toward the paint.  Or when they look at the painting what type of feeling to they feel.
• For example, mine would be a warm cozy feeling because it makes me think of family and sitting around a fire place.
• You could have the student s do their interpretation of the seasons.  Each student will have a different idea.  They must include movement throughout their work.  There are way different ideas you can do with this project, it is a great way for students to feel movement.

Elements and Principles of Art

green cup and red twigs-Contrast

Paining by my grandmother-Emphasis

Gift box-Color

Painted wine bottle-Movement

Rug-Texture

Extension

You could use this same lesson in an elementary classroom, but with a different approach.  A classroom tree, students would trace their hands and their hands would be the leaves on the tree.  Each student would create a hand representing themselves. 
Another classroom activity would be working art into the language art class.  Students could create a personal poem and they can only use other material besides their writing utensils to write their poem.  A word could be represented by a picture and they could use clippings from other paper products.

Personal Footprint

Footprint

This is a story of my life in a footprint.  The materials I used in this project were tissue paper, magazine article, cotton ball, scrapbooking stickers, gems, and a wedding announcement.

My favorite season is fall and the tree was made from various colors of tissue paper.

I love boating with my family; the sun is a painted cotton ball and the boat is a scrapbooking sticker.

I have been coast to coast in a car and my family farms.  The gems represent by love for sparkle.  Great project for teachers to get to know their students in a creative way!