Printmaking with a Styrofoam Plate
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Printmaking made easy…
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The students taught me for a change…
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Click to see art that I made as a part of the student led learning experiences.
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Exploring Fiber Arts
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Click to View student art:
Fiber Arts Projects
Color is carried on waves of light…
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TinkerBall: Explore spacial relationships. Think. Plan. Logic.
MugTug Sketchpad: Online paint program provides patterns, menus, unique paintbrush options (such a butterflies)
Mr. Picassohead: Provides you with pieces of Picasso’s artworks to create your own.
Destination Modern Art: Definitely for kids, but has some good info on modern artists. Explore the museum and click the artworks.
Pixlr.com: 3 Photo editing sites, including a collage maker, quick effects, text overs
Matisse Pieces: Provides you with pieces of Matisse’s artworks to create your own. Pieces can be scaled, rearranged, color changed.
Architect School: Design a floor plan with Frank Lloyd Wright.
NGA Kids: Several Art Games on one site, Brushster, Collage Maker…
Phototropism: Create art that simulates artwork that reacts to light, choose shapes and materials. Then, watch it react to simulated light.
Chicago Art Institute Kid Corner: a few games, try the sound match ups–they were my favorite.
National Museum of American History
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Birds-Eye view
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An aerial view of an outdoor sitting garden. This garden was created on the rooftop of a parking structure. Utilizing this type of space has become a common practice in urban architectural designs. Notice that the gently curving pathway is not the most direct route from the doorway to the table. The goal is not fast-paced efficiency. In keeping with nature and the purpose of the space, the organic pathway is more calming. Organic lines tend to be more calming, geometrical lines tend to communicate organization and structure. Aerial view simply means the view from above. It’s also called a birds eye view, which is pretty easy to remember. Landscape designers frequently plan in aerial view.
At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History– forensic artists
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Forensic artists study ancient bones and reconstruct lifelike models of the person based on the information they gather. The work that they create makes history come alive.
The third picture is a lifelike model. The first two pictures are of the bones that were found. This is a model of a 14 or 15 year old young man was one of the first settlers to arrive. He was also one of the first settlers to be killed upon arrival. His teeth and bone structure help us to know what he would have looked like.
A “deeper” understanding of portraiture at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
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