Miss Fuehrer's Art Gallery

  Description:   For this activity, we talked about Vincent Van Gogh and read the book a starry night. After we finished the book, we then were able to make our own landscape with backgrounds similar to starry night. We were given tissue paper and mod podge and used that to create the background. We made stripes and mod podge them to a black sheet of construction paper to form the background. Then we made a silhouette of whatever landscape we wanted. Some people made mountains, a city, or farms. I made a cactus silhouette to look like the desert because I used colors like sunset for my background. Once it was all dry we glued our silhouette to the background. We then took a white crayon or oil pastels to draw on our silhouettes. We also showed movement by making swirls (like Vincent Van Gogh) to represent wind or stars. Extension Activity: I really liked this project, and I would want my students to be able to do something similar because it allows them to be creative. One way...

  Description:  In class, we listened to the book "The Dot." This book would be good to read with students at the beginning of the year because it can show them that you can make art with just one dot. Even if you do not believe you are good at art. It would also show them that even if they do not think they are good at art, they should still try because they might surprise themselves with what they can create.   In addition to reading the book, we worked on creating dot projects with different materials. The project on top was created on a piece of paper. The materials used were oil pastels, crayons, and watercolors. The project below was created with a coffee filter. I used several materials, including crayons, markers, watercolors, and oil pastels. These projects would be good to show students which materials are water absorbent and which ones are not. Extension Activity: An extension activity for this project would be to still read the students the book, but afte...

  Element of Art: Texture I choose this picture for texture because you can see a lot of texture on the tree bark in the picture. I choose to take a photo of a tree to represent texture because you can see many different textures on a tree, and everyone has touched a tree, so it is a texture people can relate to.  Texture describes an actual surface's feel and the surface quality of an object; it can be real or implied. The real texture is the texture you can actually feel, whereas implied texture is when something is made to look like it has a texture. This picture was taken of a tree in my backyard.  Element of Art: Space I choose this picture to represent the element of space because it shows the depth of space in the picture. Space in art refers to a feeling of depth or three-dimensions. Space can refer to the area within, above, around, or below an object in a work of art. This picture was taken looking out my plane window on the way to Arizona.  Element of Art:...

 Description:   This was the first art project that we created for Art Method! The goal was to use your footprint with at least three different media types to introduce yourself to the class. The softball on the left of the footprint represents how I enjoy playing softball. The whistle with the word coach written on it represents how I enjoy coaching baseball and softball teams in the summers. The cow's picture represents my love for animals and that I grew up on a farm where my family raised cattle. The plane represents my love for traveling and how I want to travel and see as much of the world as I can. The antelope represents my love for hunting and the outdoors, and I used an antelope to represent this because I have a state record Boone and crocket antelope. I included a saxophone on my footprint because I love music, and one of the instruments I can play is the saxophone. I have a cookie to represent my love for cooking and baking, and I choose a cookie because I wo...