Miss McElhany's Art Gallery

 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. 

Principle: The photo focuses on a focal point of the yellow with the dots on it. It also shows the emphasis of the dots within the flower. Elements: This shows the lines very well with the light beams from the concert.  Principle: This photo of the wall mural shows the unity and variety of the peoples faces within the mural allowing the outline to still show aside from all the other variety that is going on in the mural.  Element: This photo shows the space and how it is used within the image. There are also examples of depth of field and with the sky all the way down to the water front.   Element: This photo shows the importance of value in the color of light and darkness with in the same color of the pink within the flower.  Element: This photo is showing value and depth of the tunnel and the color. 

Description: Here is my footprint introduction. Through this activity we were asked to use three or more different types of media through the foot. The three different types of media that I chose to use was added paper, colored pencil, and markers. This activity was a great tool to allow students to introduce themselves to the rest of the class in a creative and fun way. I enjoyed being able to create my own foot that is can see above and add some of the things that I am most passionate about. Extension activity:  An extension activity that is similar to the above footprint activity would be create a foot or hand print that has no words just hints about each students in the class and students are to use the hints to find which foot or hand print belong to who. By doing this activity students will learn about each other in an unique way by interacting with each other in introduction.