Miss McElhany's Art Gallery

Description: This drawing activity implemented and focused in on illusion. For this art project we were asked to create our own illusion using the a grid and line format. The center focus of my illusion was an H for my first name. We were also asked to state our different types of media that we used throughout this project.  Extension: An extension to this activity would be to implement different shapes into the background instead of the letters. This will expand students creativity in focusing in on different shapes and can be related back to math with a lesson focusing in on 2D and 3D shapes.   

 Description: For this art activity I drew an animal shape in a cool blue color in the background. This art project goes off of the art of Herni Rousseau where he most commonly is known for hiding objects in his art work. One thing that I did to draw my animal is to draw it upside down. By doing this I got a more clear image of an actual animal. After drawing the animal I drew three different shapes with warm colors to cancel out the blue cool color to the naked eye. At the end we were to state 3 different hints about our animal.  Extension: As an extension activity I will have students scribe a letter through mores code and pass it to one of their classmates to translate with their red color glasses. This will have students learning a different form of language as well as having students working together to decode the messages. 

 Description: This landscape tissue paper art is one similar to Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. To start this project off we did a painted down tissue paper to the backdrop. After that we used acrylic crayon and drew lines/shapes that helped incorporate a type of movement though out the backdrop. The last step I did was cut out a landscape picture to put in the front view.  Extension: For an extension to this activity I would have students find all different resources around the classroom, school, and their homes to have as their landscape. These items could include recycled paper, new paper, magazines, ect. The recycled material can represent why it is important to cycle and how it affects our landscape and views. 

 Description: For this lesson we celebrated International Dot day. In class we read and listened to the  The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. Upon learning about Dot day we were instructed to create dots on the provided coffee filters. On my dots I added crayon onto the centers which canceled out the water color paint. I also included marker on park of it to get a blended color look from the water color and markers.  Extension: For an extension for this activity I would also connect it with a math lesson about shapes have have students incorporate many different shapes within their dots. This will display their knowledge of incorporating different shapes together in one image.