Animal Grid Drawings

Autobiographical Sculptures

Materials:
- Clay
- Acrylic Paint/ Glaze

Fractured Value Drawings

Hungry Fish

Materials:

- 12" x 18" Drawing Paper

- Pencils

- Colored Pencils/ Markers/ Crayons

- Imagination!

Sunday Comic

Wishing everyone a happy & healthy (maybe not on the caloric side) Turkey Day!

 Enjoy : - ). 

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Plaster Masks

Materials:
- Plaster
- Water
- Buckets/Tubs for Water
- Vaseline
- Towels/ Paper Towels
- Paint
- Large plastic bags

Sunday Comic

Enjoy : - )

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Photoshop Tutorials

I find myself making a lot of tutorials for my students. Most of these are modified from what I've found on the internet already, but I've tried to break it down as much as possible, for my students who have never opened up the program at all. Feel free to use and share! And if there are any corrections or recommendations, I'd love to hear your feedback, as I am a photoshop novice myself.

Sunday Comic

Enjoy : - )

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Valued Portraits

Materials;

- Photograph of Student

- Photograph photoshopped/ edited into 5 different value ranges

- Edited photograph printed for each student

- Drawing Paper

- Pencils

- Carbon Paper

- Tape (optional)

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

Halloween Silhouettes

Color Mixing Experiment

This was a nice and quick lesson we did to introduce students to color mixing and the color wheel. They were asked to make a stencil, retrace it 6 times with overlapping, and mix the colors where appropriate.

Sunday Comic

Enjoy :-)

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November Issue of Arts & Activities

My radial symmetry prints lesson got published in the latest November issue of Arts & Activities!

Instructor Magazine Relaunch and GIVEAWAY

Do you read, follow, or subscribe to Scholastic Instructor? If not, it is a great resource for all educators! However, don't try searching for a subscription to Instructor now, because they have officially relaunched as Scholastic Teacher.

Line Design

After a review/ intro (!) of the Elements of Art, we focused on line. Students drew a contour line drawing of an image of their choice, and then added line in for texture and form.

Oh snap!

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Element of Art: Color

A powerpoint I created to teach the element of art: color. Feel free to use!

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Color Worksheet

We're almost finished with our line study in Studio in Art and are moving onto the element of color. I really liked this worksheet found here, (the document sharing website will be shutting down at the end of this year :(    ) but I wanted to add in the vocab words of 'tint' and 'shade.' I made a couple tiny revisions and here it is! Thought I'd share if anyone was in need.

Here is the .docx version for your editing needs and the .pdf version. I have to mention, though, I've tried a couple websites to share the .docx file and through both sites, the formatting is a tad off. So.. I've shared the best option and you can edit from there : ).

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Sunday Comic

 

Enjoy :-)

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So this happened...

So.... I got a new job! Did NOT think this was going to happen, or did I? I'm not even sure; just a little overwhelmed with everything happening right now, especially at this point in the summer.

I will now be teaching high school- WHOA! Pretty different than my comfortable K-7 that I've been doing for the past 7 years. I will be the only high school teacher at this district (small in numbers is an understatement), and will be teaching studio in art, ceramics, drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, and graphics. I don't even know where to start..

It's funny, because I made it a point to be more active with my blog again. My little ones have been taking up a lot of my time lately (not that I'm complaining!), but I miss this.

For any of you reading this, I'd love any advice or feedback with change and how to start a school year, especially if you're a high school teacher teaching several different areas! I know my blog roll and most of my followers are elementary teachers. I plan on trying to keep up with those amazing bloggers still, but Art Paper Scissors Glue will more than likely be shifting in the "high school" world now and that perspective. If you have any high school blogs that you would love to recommend for me to follow, I'd appreciate that, too.

Alright, that's it for now. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer (if school hasn't started already!), and I hope you're getting energized for the next coming weeks!

2 Point Perspective Postcards

Blogger Issues

I'm having difficulty responding to posts on my blog... any ideas? When I hit 'reply,' the page goes berzerk and refreshes constantly making me force quite my browser. I've tried deleting my cache.. but not sure what else to try. I can post easily, it just seems to be weird when I try to respond... any advice? Thanks in advance! : -)

Op Art

Materials:
- Rulers
- Pencil
- Markers/ Colored Pencils
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper

Keith Haring Sculptures

Materials:
- Drawing Paper
- Cereal Boxes (Or other cardboard similar to that thickness, cereal boxes open up to large pieces)
- Tagboard
- Scissors
- Glue
- Masking Tape
- Primer
- Paper Mache
- Newspaper
- Tempera Paint

A Late Earth Day Post

Materials:
- Circle Tracer
- Blue Construction Paper (I used light and regular)
- Peach/Tan/Brown Construction Paper
- White Tempera Paint
- Sponges
- Paper Towels
- Green Tissue Paper
- Glue
- Assorted Colors of Construction Paper

Radial Symmetry Prints

Materials:
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper
- Watercolor Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Black Tempera Paint
- Miscellaneous Objects for Printing (Corrugated Cardboard Scraps, Forks, Corks, Bottle Caps, etc.)

Monday Comic

Trying to warm up!

 Materials:
- 9" x 12" drawing paper
- 9" x 6" drawing paper
- markers or colored pencils
- rulers
- pencils
- gluestick
- coffee mug tracer (optional)

Kandinsky Color Theory

 Materials:
- Oil Pastels
- Rulers
- 12" x 18" Drawing Paper

Kente Cloth

 Materials:
- 9" x 18" Black Construction Paper
- (6) 9" x 3" Construction Paper
- Black Tempera Paint
- Corrugated Cardboard Scraps
- Gluesticks
- Hole Puncher
- Yarn

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Materials:
- Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
- Yarn
- Construction Paper Strips (about 1" x 6")
- Scrap Construction Paper
- Black 12" x 18" Construction Paper

Printmaking With Water Soluble Markers

Materials:
- Drawing Paper (I used 3- 9" x 6" per student)
- Styrofoam (also 9" x 6")
- Pencils
- Watersoluble Markers
- Trays
- Water
- Rolling Pins
- Wooden Spoons/ Printmaking Paddle? (I forget what they're called... eep)
- Newsprint
- 9" x 9" Construction Paper
- 3DO's
- Gluestick
- Tape

Elizabeth Murray

This was a fun little lesson my long term substitute did on artist Elizabeth Murray. Murray is a painter who used bright, bold colors, and interesting shapes. Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray’s paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.

Ani Hoover

Ani Hoover is a contemporary artist from St. Joseph, Missouri who now resides and works out of Buffalo, NY. Influenced by the impressionistic work of Vincent Van Gogh, she has cultivated a body of work all about color. The fourth grade students looked at her work and discussed what it could mean. How do the colors make you feel? How would you feel if you were as crowded as the circles? What do you see? They looked at the repeating circles in her paintings and learned about concentric circles. Painting their own concentric circles, they were arranged as one large collaborative piece.

Doodle Quest

Recently I was asked to review a game called "Doodle Quest." On a "ketchup" day with my 4th graders, the students who were all caught up with their work were able to try the game out for me. They loved it!