Digtal Media and Art

 Claymation stop motion

 

Description of Project:

 Students will create a stop motion video with clay in groups of four students.  Students will review such stories as Asphalt’s tales and analyze cartoons, stories, and books for the underlining message for ideas and inspiration. Students will write a short script that address moral, ethical, or behavior issue in today’s school (of their choice).  Students will then create a short storyboard on poster board.  Students will learn how clay into different form and move the clay for stop motion. Students will learn to take stop motion pictures.  Students will move clay characters and take digital pictures of each movement. They will then learn iMovie and use the program to edit and complete a short stop motion clay video.   Students will have learned the basic of stop motion animation, the basic techniques, programs, technology, ideas, time, and steps involved in completing a 1 to 2 minute video. 

Objectives:

By reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing such works as Asphalt’s tales, cartoons, stories, and books for the underlining message, , teaching a lesson, and inspiration students will learn to look beyond the surface of the media for true messages.  Students will learn to how to communicate ideas, which are important to them, though art and media.  Students will be able to manipulate clay and understand the concepts of stop motion production.  Students will also have an understanding of the media production process of videos from beginning to end.  Students will gain invaluable experience working in groups and making group decisions. 

Materials and Equipment:

·       Notebook paper

·       Poster board

·       Pencils

·       Erasers

·       Ruler

·       Clay

·       Scrapbook/Construction Paper

·       Scissors

·       Markers

·       Glue

·       iMovie

·       Computer

·       Camera

·       Tripod

Visual Examples:

 

Detailed Description of Procedures:

 Day 1:

·       Introduction to Claymation Stop-Motion Animation Project with examples of Claymation videos.

·       Review how stories can have messages.

·       Separate student into groups of 4.

·       Read, and analyze such stories as Asphalt’s tales, cartoons, stories, and books for the underlining message for ideas and inspiration. (ask students what cartoons they have seen with messages and what are they)

·       Brainstorm as a class some messages/ideas the students would like to tell stories about.

·       Groups will pick a theme for their story.

·       Groups will create a short story and script around their theme.

·       Groups will begin work on drawing out their storyboard.

Day 2:

·       Groups will finish creating their stories

·       Groups will finish their storyboards

Day 3

·       The teacher will give a demonstration on working with clay, using a camera, making the clay move, and taking one picture at a time for Claymation stop motion.

·       Student will practice a few movements and take pictures.

·       Students will make back grounds and start taking Claymation stop motion pictures for their film.

Day 4-5

·       Students will make back grounds and start taking Claymation stop motion pictures for their film.

Day 5-6

·       Teacher will demonstrate how to down load pictures to iMovie.

·       Teacher will demonstrate how to edit and create a stop motion video in iMovie

·       Students begin working on putting together their movies in iMovie

Day 7:

·       Students will show stop motion movies for feedback and make changes

Day 8:

·       Viewing day as a class.

 

 

 

Color Theory

Color Theory for young adults

Color Theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual effects of a specific color combination.

                 
Color Theory Vocabulary:
Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, Blue
Secondary Colors:  Purple(a mixture of blue and red), Purple (a mixture of blue and red), and Orange (a mixture of yellow and red).

Tertiary/Intermediate Colors: made by combining a primary color with a related secondary color. or combining two secondary colors. Examples orange + green, purple & orange, red-violet, yellow-orange.
Complementary Colors: colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green or blue and orange, that when combined in the right proportions, produce white light

 Cool/Warm Colors:  Warm colors are often said to be hues from red through yellow, browns and tans included; cool colors are often said to be the hues from blue green through blue violet, most grays included.

Analogous: groups of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and a tertiary. Red, orange, and red-violet are examples.
Triadic: color scheme uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.
Split Complementary: scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.

Triadac

Split Complementary



Tint/ Shades: tint is mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, and a shade is the mixture of a color with black, which reduces lightness

Red Monochromatic Scale



 Achromatic: used as a synonym for “black and white.” A black and white print has shades of grey, but greyscale is also considered to be achromatic because it lacks hue, which means it cannot be classified as a subset of the colors red, green, blue (RGB) or yellow.
 Monochromatic: all the colors(tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue

Polychromatic: means having several colors. It is used to describe light that exhibits more than one color, which also means that it contains radiation of more than one wavelength. The study of polychromatic is particularly useful in the production of diffraction gratings.

Color Theory Painting Practice:

1) Describe and show examples of all the different color theory to students.
-Talk about the different  the categories and ask student name some of the color combinations and call out some colors.
-Ask students what color theories they are.
-You can give each student a box of crayons and have them place the right colors in a matching color theory trays and have group completions.
***Important: Make sure students have a firm understanding of them and clear up any confusion now, before moving on to mixing the color combinations.

2) Demonstrate basic painting application and proper color mixing techniques (for Tempera paints).
3)Start color schemes, color mixing and painting application out on the color wheel. 

Color wheel worksheet

***Handing out a "full color" Color Wheel to each student first, is a great help.
-Next demonstration how to create your own color wheel. 
-Have students create their own color wheel or paint  a premade one in, mixing all their own colors.

Color Wheel

4)Next go back over the color theory definitions again.
-Then demonstrate one or two blocks of each color chart you have chose for your students to learn in color theory 
-You can find charts on line, make your own, or have you students make their own.


Example 1

Example 2

McBride 1997

                                                

 The Color Theory Project

 

Drawing enlargement:

1)Photograph each student

-Change photo to black and white image

-Apply Filter,

       Photoshop>Filter Gallery>Cutouts or

       Photoshop>Image>Adjustments>posterize

-Print 11X 8 black

 

 

 

 

2)Draw 1inch blocks over picture.

*****Measure Twice Draw once!!!!!

 

 

 

 

3) Draw 2inch Blocks on Paper
 ****Measure Twice Draw Once !!!!

 

4)Transfer the picture using the grid as a guide. Match each block on the  1 inch picture with the same block on the 2inch paper and draw the small lines in that block on the paper.  



Transferring picture using grid system

 

 

 

 5)  Pick a color scheme/theory.
-Make sure to discuss the idea/ concept with the student first to see if they full understand what they are about to doing before they start painting.

6) Start Painting.
 

 

 

 7) An alternative:
- is to find a magazine or photo and start at step 2
divide the picture into Radom section when it comes time to paint and do each section in different color scheme.
-Photo copy the picture or photo into black and white
-skip the grid and free hand the image.

Below: Draw from a photography, freehand (no grid), Sectioned into a Radom design and done in  Monochromatic and Complimentary Colors

J.McBride,     Wild Rose,        1998

Art Education and Skills it Develops

Busy Bee Art  Print
J. McBride

Welcome parents, teacher, and students.  My name is Mrs. McBride and I am a graduate from Art Education program at School of Visual Art and Design at the University Of South Carolina.  I am so glad to be a part of your wonderful school and community.  I just can't wait to get to know your children in the upcoming school year and share in all their wonderful discoveries and creations in the exciting world of art. 

             I believe that to teach art is to inspire and create the future.  What a wondrous and bright future we have ahead of us in this day and age. It is an essential catalyst of the 21st century, helping to push the boarders of science, math, health, technology, history, and communication beyond the horizons.    Art will introduce a student to new exciting views and prospective on the world.  It can open doors as wide as the student's own imagination and creativity will allow them.  I believe art helps create, inspire, and invent every aspect of the world around us.  I believe in our children's abilities to use this for the benefit of all. My teaching goals are help students to become creative, actively productive, and intellectually & physically connected to the visual art. When participating in Art Education students learn, build, expand, and improve many fundamental skills that they will use later in life. Some of the skills they develop through art are:

Motor Skills Holding a paintbrush or a crayon and moving them around is an important element to developing fine motor skills. Several developmental milestones include artistic acts such as drawing a circle, beginning to use safety scissors, draw a square, and indicate cutting with scissors.

Confidence.  Participating in the arts helps grow self-confidence and mastering it build’s it even higher.  Students can see their own progress and self-monitor.

Visual Learning. Drawing, painting, and sculpting in art class help develop visual-spatial skills. Students can learn through visual aids of art and active participation of making art then just through text. Students learn how to interpret, criticize, and use visual information when in art classes.

Decision Making. The arts strengthen problem solving and critical thinking skills. Students actively get to make choices and decisions. They get to see how their choice effect the outcome of their works. Life skills at work.

Perseverance & Focus: Students learned that hard work and perseverance pay off by learning new techniques and creating works of art with their own hands.  They labor and watch as their ideas come to life after several failures and then success.



Mixed Media, Imagery Cities
YAW Fall 15,High School Age

Collaboration. Students will work together. They will share responsibility, compromise, and contribute to the group to achieve a common goal. A essential future skill.

Accountability. Art teaches students to be accountable for their contributions to the whole. They must take responsibility for their messes in the class room.  Student figure out that mistakes and trial and error are part of life and way of learning.

Creativity: Art allow kids to express themselves in multiple ways, A.K.A. “thinking outside the box!” Students get lots of practice thinking creatively and solving problems in creative ways, so in their future careers it will be second nature to them!

     

            There are several major ways I like to get our school, art program, students, and parents and community a chance to connect and interact, thus improve and promote relations. I plan to display student’s art work in public locations though out the year.  I will have a student art show at the end of the year for all grades.   I also like to involve the local community by having local artist, artistic parents, and creators as class guess speakers and demonstrators whenever possible.  I will integrate community themes into art lesson to help student take an active role in their community and increase personal pride.  The upper classman will be participating in an Art community improvement project every year as they graduation from High school.  I am very excited about this project and can't wait to see what our wonderful students come up with for the community.  
       I am always looking for artistic guests speakers for class.  I will be sending letter home with information about any Individuals artistic talent.  If you know anyone who works in an artistic field or profession you and maybe will to volunteer sometime as a guest speaker, please let me know.
         This is going to be a wonderful year for all the students; full of experimenting, learning, and expanding their understanding of the world around them.  I hope you are as enthralled to get started as I am. 
          Again my name is Mrs. Jeanmarie McBride Feel free to contact me with any concerns, information, or ideas you may have.   Thank-you.

 

 

 

Photography

Photography

Four Techniques

1.      Disturbance:  means that something in the photo is cut off along the edge that makes up the photo. The object that is cut off, creates a secondary frame in which something is the focus.                  AKA: A frame inside a frame.

2.      Proximity: the distance between camera and subject. Up close and personal

3.      Vantage Point: where you are taking the picture from, anywhere except eye level.  Experiment and have fun.

4.      Place: Idea of where the image was taken.

Three Compositional rules

1. Golden Triangle

1. Golden Spiral

1. Rule of thirds 

 Some Examples:



Proximity/ Golden Triangle



Disturbance/ Rule of thirds

Vantage Point/Golden Spiral

 

Place/Vantage Point/Golden Triangle



Place/ Golden Triangle

Some ways you could incorporating photography techniques into art education are: Looking at works of art for elements and techniques of photography.  Using photography the students take for college, in printmaking, and to work from in painting projects. I use my photography to work from in a lot of my art, from painting and ceramics,  to printmaking. You can also starting a student photography section for the school paper and yearbook.

Types of subject matters students could photography are: School events, Friends & Family,  personal environments (bedrooms, hangouts, place they like to go), Pets, Social events, Free time, Items of representational meaning, vacation time. landscapes.

Students can use cell phones, free apps, and computer programs for photography.

 

 

 

Colored pencil Lesson and Techniques

5 Basic Color Pencil Techniques

stippling - involves placing lots of tiny dots on your paper. The dots can be close together or far apart Practice stippling by drawing dots that are close together or drawing dots that have more distance between them. There is a difference between dots made when the pencil is sharp and when the pencil  is dull. Stippling adds interesting texture to a drawing.
hatching - involves drawing a series of parallel lines. The lines all go in the same direction. The lines are close together, far apart, or in between. The pencil is lifted from the paper after each line and then placed down again to create a new line.
cross-hatching - involves drawing a series of parallel lines and then drawing another series of parallel lines going in another direction on top of the first set of lines, called hatching. This creates shading in a drawing. You can create some interesting textures through cross-hatching.
back and forth stroke -  This is the most common of all the colored pencil techniques.  You just put your pencil on the paper and draw in a continuous back and forth motion, without lifting your pencil off of the paper. You can fill in different areas of your drawing with a lot of solid color.
scumbling - involves making continuous circular marks on your paper, without lifting your pencil. This is a good way to fill in different areas with lots of color.




Once you master these colored pencil techniques, you can use these colored pencil techniques to layer colors over top of one another to create a rich, luminous depth.

The Introduction to Colored Pencil Lesson

 

Color Pencil Value Scale:

1.  On a 7.5" X 11" piece of Rives BFK draw a rectangle bar and 4 circles cut into quarters (example below)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Use the color pencils Magenta (red), Canary Yellow (yellow), and True Blue (blue) as your primary colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.  You will blend your secondary colors orange, green, and purple using the above colors in the rectangle bar.  Use the techniques above to smoothly blend the two colors two different colors together to form the secondary color.

 Some useful hints:

• Always have a sharpened tip.
• Use the side of the colored pencil not the tip.
• Work in small areas and slowly
•  Use only a light amount of pressure to press down on the pencil.
•  Layers, lots of layers, and layer in multiple directions 

 
 



4. Each circle below the value chart will have a single primary color as a base.   (1 Canary Yellow, 1 Magenta, 1 True Blue, and the last 1 will be White). 








5.You will shade the whole circle (all four quarters) in the designated primary color.   True Blue was used to shade the whole circle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Next you will blend one of the three primary colors (Canary Yellow, Magenta, True Blue) over the primary color in one of the quarters of the circle. 



 

7.  Repeat the process for each of the circle using the base color specified and seeing how layering and blending the colors in different order changes how it appears in the end.

 

 

 

 

8. Use this as your practice and reference sheet for future art work.  Examples of finished pages are below.

 

9.  Now practice using pieces of fruit or pictures of fruits.  See a examples below.





 

 

Colored Pencil Drawing from Collage

 



Colored Pencil Composition composed from a handmade College
 

1. Make a collage on a 8 X 11 piece of paper (or smaller) from  colorful bright magazine picture.  Use about 4-5 images. Keep it simple.

2.  On a larger piece of quality piece of paper draw an enlarged  line drawing of the collage you created.

3. Using the college you created as a your guide, color the larger drawing in using the colored pencils and all the techniques you practices and learned.