Eric Carle--Illustrating a story collage

This week we watched Eric Carle demonstrate his collage making skills in a short movie.  My collage is about the very hungry caterpillar.  After he finishes eating all of that food in the book, he adventures out to find a new place for food. He comes across a farm, where he finds the healthy snack of corn.

An extension activity for this lesson could be to have the students finish writing their stories. After that have them read it to a partner and then have their partner create their favorite part of the story using this format. 

Van Gogh

 Van Gogh Art

-This week's projects were inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and his style of art. 

Project 1:

• This project was to recreate movement that you would see in Van Gogh's paintings.
• I demonstrated this type of movement by cutting tissue paper and gluing them down to the paper.
• I also used oi pastels and metallic Sharpies and created more movement by drawing curvy and wispy lines on the paper.
• After that, I made a landscape of mountains to create more of a "picture" look.
• I then framed the picture in blue to represent the "sky" a little better. 

Extension Activity:

• Students need to create their own self-portrait by using tissue paper.  Students will just be able to use their hands to rip the tissue paper, and then glue it onto the paper. This would be a great introduction activity for a classroom. 

Project #2

• This project was also based on Van Gogh as well.
• Just like the first project, we were to create movement in our painting.
• Finger painting allowed more movement and individual lines that showed off this type of movement.
• We were also told to create a foreground, middle ground, and background to show depth in the picture.

•  This painting represents a view of a person laying in the grass.  They are looking through the uneven grass to view the mountain and the sky in the background.

*Extension Activity:

• A great activity would be having students be paired up and work on a painting together.  They would collaborate with each other to make a painting about their classroom.  They would have to include the same foreground, middle ground, and background as we did in the other activity.  However, everyone needs to do a different picture about their classroom.
  

5 Elements and Principles of Art

*Below are pictures that are examples of the Elements and Principles of Art.  They go in order of:
    -Shape
    -Balance
    -Contrast
    -Texture
    -Emphasis