6th Grade Art

Hughes and Ibsen

 

You parents are invited to art studio on June 2nd to help you glaze your bird houses and to see your most recent artwork. (See Woodlawn Notes) 

 

Art and Ecology

Monday June 1

We will look at examples of performance art.  You will work in a team to perform an ecological process.  

Website:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_M-WaCg27k&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik%2Ecom%2F5259796%2Fnew%2Dtoyota%2Dprius%2Dcommercial%2Dcreepy%2Dand%2Dmesmerizing&feature=player_embedded

 

Tuesday June 2

We will set-up for our art show and work on our performance art pieces.  Remember to invite your parents to the glazing studio and art show today. 

 

Homework for this week:

Please photograph all of the walls in your bedroom.  If you do not have a camera you may check one out from the art room.  You may need to take more than one photo of each wall if it does not fit into one photo.  You will piece these together to create a panoramic view.  

To turn them in do one of the following:  

1.  Save the photos on your USB and transfer them to my computer.

2.  Save the photos on your desktop and transfer them to me using my USB

3.  Send your photos to me in an email as jpegs.  

4.  Print them in color (4x6 minimum size).  

David Hockney   http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php

 

 

Week of May 25

This week we will photograph natural sculptural pieces and create our own pieces from found objects that symbolize an ecological concept   

 

Websites: 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/naturepaintings/

http://jrlandart.blogspot.com/

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/320718

 

Week of June 1

Tuesday

You will work with your peers on a collaborative performance project that creatively interprets an ecological process.     We will glaze our pottery birdhouses today. 

Thursday

End of Year Art Exhibition

 

Previous Week: 

Week of May 18

Tuesday

Macro photography

We will look for interesting texture and patterns in nature and create macro mystery photographs      

Friday

Preliminary work for natural sculpture pieces that symbolize an ecological concept

 

Modern Art

 

Week of May 11

Tuesday

Pottery with Parents   

Parents are invited to join our class to design and build clay bird houses  

Friday

Work on craftsmanship of bird houses  

 

Tuesday  4.28.09

In Class:  Continue presentations of art movements - Surrealism.  Finish art pieces based on Fauvism and create your very own piece in the style of Cubism.

 

 

Homework:  To prepare for our Surrealism lesson next Tuesday, please keep a dream journal and attach it to you sketchbook.  Keep your journal by your bed and if you remember any of your dreams during the next week, jot them down in your journal.  You may also include “day dreams”. 

 

 

Archived Lessons 08-09

 

Archived Lessons 07-08

 

 

Tuesday June 2