Sisters by Chance - Friends by Choice (Scrapbooking Project)

For this project, we were asked to use scrapbooking paper to create a scrapbook page of a memory. I chose a picture of my family's barn and a picture of my sister. My favorite childhood memories were with my sister, and we often played in the barn; therefore, I thought these pictures would make a good scrapbook page. The quote "Sisters by Chance, Friends by Choice" titles this piece because both my sister and I are adopted. Therefore, we truly are sisters by chance and friends by choice. This project uses some elements and principles of design, such as line, movement, space, balance, and color. I used stickers and pictures as well as paper to create this project. An extension activity for this project would be to have students write a paragraph that explains the thoughts behind the page for an English class.

Four Seasons Window

This project uses color, texture, space, value, and shape. I used different media in each square to create a depiction of what I see during the different seasons. This project shows the different cycles an apple tree goes through during each season. This project could be used in a science class to teach students about seasons and different weather during the seasons.

3-D Art with Pastels

This project used line, color, texture, space, and value to create a scene and a three dimensional object using pastels. While making the mountain scene, I used a condensed part of the above photograph to create the scene and added black and brown to shade the picture as well as white to add tint. This project could be used in a P.E. class to go on a nature walk to get ideas.

This project uses line, shape, and space. This project used a vantage point to teach students about perspective drawing. When making this project, I thought about my hometown and what it would look like if it had a few more buildings. This project could be used in a P.E. class by having students take a nature walk to gather ideas for perspective drawing.

Sounds Reverberating Through Clay

For this project, we listened to music as we worked with clay blindfolded. We then took the blindfolds off and worked with the clay to make any "corrections" or different object that we wanted to. For this particular project, I thought of a sound (the scratching of nails on a chalkboard) and made an object that looked like what I thought the sound should look like. This project used many different principles and elements of art, but the two main ones were line and color. An extension project that could be used for this project would be having students make something with clay and write a short paragraph about the project for an English class.

Christmas Stamping

This project used different types of media (Styrofoam, sculpting tools, construction paper and ink) to create a holiday greeting card. We used the sculpting tools to push on the Styrofoam to create a stamp with a design of our choosing. Then we covered the stamp with paint-like ink using a special tool and stamped our project. The principles and elements of art that I used to create this project were space, line, texture, and shape. This project could also be used to teach students about the different holidays, or it could be used in an English class by having students give a short speech about their stamp and why they chose the design that they did.

My Treasure

This project uses many different elements and principles of art including color, texture, and shape. To create this project, cement was placed in a pie pan with beads as well as a piece of glass and necklace clasps. I created this look for the project because, in my mind, a girl's necklace happened to break over the cement and as she reached in to get the pieces she left her hand print. This project could be used to teach students that they are all different; therefore, everyone's project is different. It could also be used in an English class by having students share with the class their thought process behind their project.

The Adventures of Bobbi and Marlow

This project uses line, shape, color, and value. To make this project, I used a pencil to draw on the construction paper the cartoon that I wanted. Then, I used a marker to trace what I had drawn. Finally, I used colored pencils to shade the project and glued it to construction paper to finish it. This project could also be used in a P. E. class by having students act out each other's comics and having students who are not being used in the skit as an audience.

Sandpaper Art

This project uses color and line to create a traditional Native American art project. It was created by using crayons to color on sandpaper. Then, taking the crayon/sandpaper piece and placing a white piece of paper over it, covering it with newspaper to protect the project, and ironing the project to transfer the wax the project is complete. After having students read about Native Americans in their social studies class, this project could be used to teach children about cultural differences between their own personal culture and traditional Native American people they have read about.

Scratch Art

I used special scratch art paper and a scratch tool to create this art project. It uses the principles of movement and the element line to not only keep your eyes moving through the piece, but also to create the objects that you see in the picture. Also, the elements and principals of line an negative and positive space is used to create the image above. This project could be used to teach children to use line and movement in art. It could also be used in and English or reading class by having students use this to illustrate a story they have read.

Me, Myself, and My Initials

This project uses the priciples and elements of art such as line, shape, and texture. After cutting out my initals from the yellow piece of construction paper and tracing them onto another piece of construction paper, I used injet printed pictures of different ads from the 1920s to present (glued to a piece of construction paper with traced intials on it) as a background for the above project. Then, I put the layer of construction paper that I had already cut my intitals out of on top. This project could be used to teach students about the differences of different people and cultures. It could also be used in an English class after having students write a paragraph describing themself and using this project to illustrate it.

Collages

These collages were a class collaboration in which words were defined by a student and then built upon by the entire class. These collages use many different kinds of principles and elements of art. Example would include movement, shape, and line. You could use this project to help build student interaction within a class, or you could use it to have students define their vocabulary terms visually in an English class.

Words and Definitions (in order from top to bottom):

Omission: Something missing - Something untold - Something has been removed

Secretes: Something that no one else knows - Something that people may want to discover but you don't want them to

Anxiety: Fearful - Nervousness - Constant movement - Worry

Clutter: Messy - Little Space - Random objects

Time to Draw!

This is the sketchbook that I made to keep my drawings in. It is made from paint and paste paper as well as paste and plain white paper. I used wallpaper paste to put the paste paper on the cover, and I bound the sketchbook using black necklace string. I used the primary colors blue and red to make purple and added black to make different shades of purple for the cover. I used lines to add movement to the cover as well as glitter to make it look like a twilight sky. This would be a very unique poetry book or sketchbook for kids to have as something that represents themselves on the outside as well as the inside for English class.

Pretty Butterflies

This is a collage made from different types of scrap paste paper and construction paper. The butterfly is removable from the cocoon. I made this piece in response to the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar written and illustrated by Eric Carle. This piece shows that all butterflies and children are beautiful. I used the concept of color to chose shades of green for leaves and other tertiary colors, such as purple, for the cocoon. This project could be used to teach colors and shapes. It could also be used to teach children to count, like when the caterpillar in the book eats one item, then two, then three, and so on. It could also be used in a science class to teach children about butterflies. The possibilities with this book, and project extension, are endless!

Can You See the Elephant?

This is a drawing that I did of an elephant in blue colored pencil with warm-colored patterns over the top; so, when you view the picture with red cellophane glasses you can easily find the elephant. I used repeated patterns to make the elephant even harder to see. This would be very interesting to use in the classroom to teach children about color blindness and show how some people see certain colors as all one shade. It could also be used in math as a counting project, such as count the number of triangles, count the number of red triangles, count the number of yellow circles, and many others.

My Fingerpaint Version of Starry Night

Alyssa's Starry Night

Once upon a time, there lived a young boy who could never do anything right. One evening his parents became so upset with him for not doing his chores correctly, they sent him outside. While outside, he walked up a hill and saw a beautiful sight. He decided to paint what he saw. When he was done painting, he showed his parents, who then showed the whole town - - the boy had finally done something right!

This project could be used in an English class by giving students art supplies and having them illustrate their stories. It could also be used by having students try to reproduce a famous painting (with some differences) and having them write a story about it.

Line Movement

Moving Lines

I created this artwork to show movement with lines. I used yarn, pipe cleaners, and hemp on a felt background to show lines moving and twisting and untwitsting as well as moving from one corner to spread and flow over the felt. I used different hues of blue and brown to also show movement in the color of the lines.

This project could be used to teach children to count in math by giving the students a certain number of shapes and telling them they must use them to create a project using principles and elements of art.

Footprints

My Footprint

This is a representation of myself as a footprint. Every piece on it represents something about me or something that I love. The heel is a page from a book because I love to read. The magazine picture of wolves and the drawing of a lion are mascots of schools I have attended. The drawing of the dragon represents my favorite mythological animal. The shiny orange sparkles are my name in Elfish, because I love the Lord of the Rings. The "passport" and ticket stub represent the places that I have gone as well as the concerts I have been to. "Oz" on my toe represents my favorite movie of all time, The Wizard of Oz. The lines represent the fact that I like to doodle. Finally, the cut out magazine letters on the foot spell my name.

This project could be used in a classroom to have students teach each other, about differences that exist between eachother as well as introduce themselves.

Claude Monet
Water Lilies
1906

Description:

He used different textures and small dots to create smooth-looking water and rough-looking plant life. He also used lines and different values of green in the water to make your eyes move from one part of the painting to another. He used mostly cool colors with pink and red variations as well as yellow for contrast. Finally, he used different shapes (such as circles and organic shapes) to form water lilies and lily pads.

Analysis:

He used circles and organic shapes of green to form lily pads against a blue and green water background that moves your eyes throughout the piece. The red/pink variations, as well as the yellow variations that compose the lilies in the piece, also cause movement, because they make you look from lily to lily.

Interpretation:

I believe that this is an oil painting of water lilies that was created as a calming, soothing painting of lilies.

Judgement:

I believe that this piece was a success because it is a calming, soothing painting of water lilies. It looks like water that is barely moving and is peacefully harboring the lilies.

Other:

This type of project could be used in the classroom as an "icebreaker" to introduce children to criticizing their own and each other's artwork and may also be used as a part of English, because a teacher could use it to grade students' spelling and grammar.