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.