6th Grade Girls at Grant Middle School
learned to transform simple shapes, into complex shapes and patterns, to form a work of art with a foreground that emerges from its background (2/6/13)
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| my example of transformed heart |
This is my example of how you can transform a heart into a clover, leaf, dragonfly, or butterfly, by combining, and adding details.
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| highlighting emerging shapes on the smart board |
We played an interactive I-Spy game where students picked out emerging shapes out of photographs. We talked about how they pop out and how they are subtle and different ways nature uses camouflage and artists can change the color, shape, and details of something to make it blend in or stand out more.
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| students transformed shape ideas |
Students brainstormed shapes that look alike, then cut out their "simple shape" out of card stock, and traced it, then adjusting, combining and adding details to transform their shape into a new more complex foreground ideas for their art work.
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| students successful foreground and background |
Next student's decided how to repeat their simple shape to form a background and which complex shape they would place in the foreground.
After sketching their ideas out on a big sheet of paper they colored them in with color pencil, watercolor pencil, or pastels. We focused on having the foreground emerge from the background using emphasis of color on the complex shape or less emphasis if the shape already stands out well from the background. Here are the results!
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| students worked well together to get finished |
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| example of subtle emergence bunny camouflages into the background using color |
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| emphasis on the turtle in the middle with placement and color |
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| student that was missing caught up quickly by choosing charcoal a medium that covered the areas she wanted quickly |
I was very proud of the overall results, the girls listened to directions well, worked hard and came away with some very unique products and skills.
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