"Draw me a song": Illustrated song lyrics
Don't we all have a favorite song? Perhaps it's a song that you love not only for it's beat or for the voice that is singing it but for it's lyrics. What does your favorite song say to you? How does it make you feel? Do the lyrics create images in your minds eye? Music, poetry, and the visual arts are expressions of similar emotions using different methods. This weeks "Draw Me a Song": Illustrated Song Lyrics, is a way to combine these three mediums in a visual way. Arbor eighth graders have been asked to first select a song and examine its lyrics. After selecting a particular section of the lyrics they wish to illustrate, the students will then conceptualize their project. What will it look like? What art materials will help express what the song makes me feel? Watercolor? Mixed media collage? After laying out the lyrics and drawing their images, the student will then go begin the final stage of completing their work. This project encourages the student to select and analyze writings, conceptualize their visual presentation and manipulate a range of art materials. This is a student directed project. They will determine the final way the assignment is to be presented. |
Grade 7The seventh grade is continuing it's in depth study of color as they design and create a color wheel that becomes a clock. This student driven project does not have a specific predicted outcome. It's form and appearance is the choice of the student. Our seventh graders are being encouraged to create their "clock" in original and unique ways. They are being asked to resist the impulse to use traditional symbols of clocks and look for new ways to reinterpret the form while still showing all twelve colors of the spectrum in order.
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Grade 6The desert is rich with unique shapes, textures and patterns! It asks us to look closer and observe it's beauty. Our sixth grade students will be asked to research images of cactus and succulents, sketch several variety and transfer them to their final project. They will also study different forms of Native American pottery and work to create a symmetrical container which will then include it's own kind of pattern. Their work will be finished with watercolors and detailed with markers.
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Grade 5Often art starts as one thing and then becomes another! In this watercolor project, fifth grade students will explore the art of watercolor, closely observing the blending of colors and changing form. This style of painting is non-objective meaning that it does not represent a specific object. It's free form allows for exploration and experimentation by the student. After drying, the watercolor will be first cut into strips and then into triangles, squares and/or rectangles. These pieces will then be reassembled into a mosaic. A mosaic is a pattern or picture made using many small pieces of coloured stone,glass, paper, fabric or found object
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