Stained Glass

What do most people think when the word stained glass? Many will say bright colors, and church. Well in this last lesson the class learned about stained class. Examples whould be, why were they made, and why most of them had to do with the church.
In this project we made tissue paper stained glass. Forst what we did was we had to take holiday type themes and cut out the negitive space and then when we were done, we then had to fill the space with tissue paper that had a certin color theme. Examples would be using the primary colors, or use only warm colors. In my piece I mainly used the cool colors because I like the way they look. It was kind of fun making this project. So tell me what you think?

~Monica

Nature Printmaking

One of the other things I really enjoy becides sculpture is printmaking. I'm told that for some reason, many sculptures enjoy printmaking as well. I think thats true. My main reason is because its the interaction with the plate as the artist is creating their image.
What the class had to do for this project was to take a piece of fome and draw an image from nature. Being the fact that I like owls, thats what I decided to draw. Then we also had to make sure that there was a difference in line work, example thin line vs. thick line. Then when we were doen the students had to take it over to another table where we could choose between red, yellow, and blue ink. Next we rolled the ink on the fome plate and then tracefered the ink onto paper of out color choosing. I decided that I wanted to use black paper because owls are up in the night. However, the blue ink was dark on the paper, so I had to add a bit of white so the image could be seen. All in all I think I did great and I loves how the image turned out for what I was able to work with. Tell me what you think?

~Monica

Welcome to the Cave

Back before there were paint in tubes, how did the cave people paint? Well many people believe that the cave people used mud and mixed items that had color in them to make color paint. Some examples would be red flowers to make red paint, or grass and leaves to make green.
In this project we had to think of an exciting event and paint it. Only we had to use colored mud. Then we had to use some natural things to add texture. Some examples would be twigs, grass, leaves... My memory was when I was up in Canada with my dad and we watched the sunset over the lake. Though I did find it hard to pint the picture; and acctually I think that my final painting wasnt really all that good. I found it hard to blend the colors to make the sunset, but I did try my best. Then for texture I added some grass on the mountain.
Tell me what you think.

~Monica



Leaves Falling

Red, yellow, and orange. Thats what many people think of when they hear the word fall. In this lesson the class tas taught about warm colors, and cool colors. What we first had to do for this project was to take crayons of the warm colors and shave them onto a piece of wax paper. Then after we had enough, the paper was then folded in half and put onder an iron so the crayons could melt into a blen of warm colors. then what we had to do was take that wax paper and draw at least thre leaves and cut them out. then after the class had glued them onto paper we then had to take oil pastels in the cool colors and draw more leaves around the warm ones to make a collage.
The point of this lesson was to learn about the warm and cool colors. Tell me what you think and how I could have emproved.

~Monica

Under the Sea

In this lesson we were taught about drawing. What the class was given was two sheets of that paper that you can do scratch art on. You know the paper that is black and then when tool that has a fine point on it so moved across the paper it scratches away the black and leaves the color that it under it.
What we had to do was there were many different sea animals the the class could choose from. I choose the sea hourse, because I though it w as fun. Then we had to draw the picture of the sea animal on paper and then transfer the image to the scratch art paper and then scratch away. Also one of the things that we had to do was make the sea animal look like it had texture to it. What I did was I added little dots to the picture to add both shade and texture. The darker the place, the more dots I added. I have to say that by doing that method it did take a long time, but in the end it was worth it.

~Monica

Birds of a feather

This is the lesson that I helped teach. It had to do with 3D design and it was fun. Being mostly a sculpture I thought that it was fun to teach about working in the round. Not saying that working 2D is bad, I just prefer 3D. Anyway what the stidents had to do for this project was to color and assemble the bird that was put before them. Meaning that they got a sheet of thin cardboard with a bird template and the cut it out colored and put it together.
Before they really had to work on it , my partner and I thought that it would be nice if the students made a little description of whay and why their birds are the way they are. After that was done they were able to make their birds. There were some things that they had to do. the first was to add color; second assemble. Third add texture/ pattern, and last punch holes inorder to hang the bird in the hallway.
I have to say that I loved making my bird. What it said about my bird that his name is Rainbow Wing and he is the best when it comes to mixing colors. He basicly knows whats best when it comes to color.
Well what do you think? should I have done anything different? Let me know.

~Monica

Clay Necklaces

With this project it was one of the first lessons that were taught by two of my classmates. In this project we were taught about clay. What we had to do for this project was to create five beads useing the clay that was given to us. The rest of the class was told that after the beads were dry we had to paint them. One of the restrictions was that we had to use atleast 3 different colors.
I decided that I didnt want to creat just round beads, I wanted to make swirl beads, and thats what I did. Also if we wanted, we could create more than 5 beads if we so choose. In total I made 9 beads.
The point of this lesson was to leatn about how to use clay. How to shape, swist, and a few vocab terms as well. The group that prsented this project did a fantastic job, there lesson was more towards 1st graders and they did a great job breaking it down in simple terms for 1st graders to understand.

~Monica