My Art Class

Yeah! School is almost over and then, I have a month off while taking an online course and then, one more summer class before my first practicum in fall. I will be taking a full load of 4 classes plus 6 hours a week in an elementary school classroom plus continuing to work. Practicum 2 is next spring and then, student teaching will take place in the summer. Graduation and licensing will happen in fall of 2010! Here are some cool photos of projects we were taught to do in my Art for Elementary School Teachers...

This was our first assignment...Oragami. Mine is the purple one in the center. Pretty inticate.

Then, we had to do a mobile with the theme, "Changes over Time". Mine was based on energy. First, you have a lump of coal (construct. paper), then, a tube of oil (clear film case), an electric lightbulb (yellow balloon and tin foil), a wind mill (a cut soda can and stick), hydro-water power (waves on colored paper) and lastly, solar power (bottom of soda can for sun and tin foil over cardboard for solar panel). Ingenious!

We had to create and design a creature that doesn't exist and include a skeletal structure with all the working organs that couldn't be in the traditional shape or color of human organs.

Then, we had to make our animal creations into machines that actually worked to pump blood (fluid), lungs that pumped, liver and kidneys thayt filtered and a stomach that churned, etc.. out of complete random garbage!

This one was pretty cute.

We had to demonstrate how everything was supposed to work and by the time our presentations came along, half of our "machines" had fallen apart!

Here is my pride and joy...my working heart. Watch and see my ingenious design!

I learned to make string art and use construction paper to come up with ideas for decorating bullitain boards.

I came up with this idea to make a "stain glass painting" on tin foil (for that glassy look) using permanent markers. It turned out pretty cool.

This was one of my favorite projects. We had to write a story about the creation of the sun, draw a scene from our story and then, paint our drawing idea onto our paper mache masks. Mine turned out identical to what I drew. Pretty impressive.

My story was about a coyote, a halk and a scorpion who call upon a humming bird to chase a shooting star into the night and when they touched, the star would turn the moon into the sun, dividing night from day, drying up the rain and casting a rainbow over the land.

Maybe, I should turn my story and pictures into a childrens book.

This is my favorite piece! It is a black construction paper,razor blade hand cutout
picture laid over a sun crayon relief and water color background. Such a cool effect. The theme for mine was 'Love in China', as you can see the young man in the building looking across the bridge to his woman lover sitting beneath the mystical tree. So Pretty.