Artist Hilary Pfeifer inspired Almost Installations

  

 4th grade art installations inspired by artist Hilary Pfeifer.  Unfortunately...we ran out of time at the end of the year but they loved creating and learning about insects.  Below is her blog and the link to my power point that I used is here:
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-2497126-itsy-bitsy-clay-bugs-art-installation/

The lesson had several parts from creating both a 2D and 3D piece, note taking about insects and labeling their 2D pieces.

You can visit her blog here: http://hilarypfeifer.blogspot.com/ 

Escher Optical Illusions Revised

So this is one I've used forever... but this year wanted to add a little something more to it.  Here is my past post for my optical illusions and power point with tutorial which is super easy for subs to use and they always turn out great:  http://artjulz.blogspot.com/search?q=optical

But this year... I wanted to go a little deeper.  Unfortunately testing hit and classes started getting canceled and I didn't get to do it the justice I really wanted...  but the concept is still there.

The students did their optical illusions as usual...then we added our Escher twist.  They traced their hand, made observations and drew the front and back of their hand exactly like their own.  Next they cut them out.  I took their photos and they cut them out in a sphere shape.  They had to create their own composition of where their hand should be place and how they should arrange their fingers to make it look as realistic as possible.  Some were great...some were good attempts.  But overall they loved them which is the most important! They also love my books!

HGTV Magazine get ready for Mrs. Reardon's Shelf Design Challenge

This is the continued post to my Ellen's Design Challenge remake.  You can see the first post here:
http://artjulz.blogspot.com/2015/04/ellens-design-challenge-at-our-school.html

Grant Wood's influenced shelf

Here are the final photos... Yep, Junior High designers and builders... pretty impressive!  Thank you Ellen for the inspiration!
http://www.hgtv.com/shows/ellens-design-challenge

Well...this took longer than planned, but my students will say it was their FAVORITE project and my 1st semester students keep saying, "Why didn't we get to build shelves???"

Van Gogh's inspired Shelf

So...  I guess it's a WINNER!  My students voted in each class and although the winners are not getting $100,000 or a spread in HGTV Magazine...and Although we emailed Ellen and have not heard back from her, they were partially satisfied with the SONIC DRINKS I gave to the winners and told them they would be featured in my blog.  ;)

Power Point I made is:
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-2483261-artist-shelf-design-challenge-7th-8th/

Munch's inspired shelf

Eric Carle's inspired 

Hokusai's inspired shelf

Dubuffet's inspired shelf

Piet Mondrian's inspired shelf

Michelangelo's inspired shelf

Jasper Johns

Chace...because I loved his shirt!

Ellen's Design Challenge at our School... or maybe just her inspiration!

SUPER EXCITED about my new Jr High Project!!  I'm an addicted HGTV chick... and fell in love with Ellen's Design Challenge.  So if you love art and you love furniture then why not do Art & Furniture!  :)

We have just started this project.  Our Ag teacher is helping me out...and my students are stoked!  These will either be amazing...  or perfect for a bonfire!  :)   Here is the power point I used to help my students:

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-2483261-artist-shelf-design-challenge-7th-8th/

Partner writing and creating their RUBRIC for their project.  I gave each team the 5 categories.  They had to discuss and determine what criteria that must be met in order to score each area.  We had some great discussion.  I also liked how many of them reworked their sketches afterwards to amp up their designs.
Artist Research in the media center using these sheets:

  Next came the MANY SKETCHES.  Some had trouble deciding which design was the best.  We discussed how we all have strengths in the art room and use those strengths as skills to help each other.  

Finished priming and the building begins....  EXCITING TIMES!!