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In the Guinness Book of World Records?

05/08/2013

Dryden artists that have classes on Wednesday were busy creating environmental art the day I was with the fourth grade annual field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. The completed artwork was photographed for Artsonia and organized into a binder. This was shipped to Chicago where the 105 images contributed to an attempt to break a world's record. Learn more here. See our gallery here.

This isn't the first time Dryden Artists have done something to help the environment. A few years back, a group of Fugleflick Filmmakers made this award-winning video to encourage students to be green when they clean the art room (or any space).

Let's Be Green when We Clean from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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iPad Painting Party

05/07/2013

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Dryden Raffle Winners had an after school art class on Monday where we painted our self-portraits digitally using the Brushes app. You can see I kept a close eye on everyone.

Since we created these in Brushes you can watch the movie of the drawing steps below.

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Dryden Art News, May 2nd

05/02/2013

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5 pieces of art, 5 fan club members, and 5 approved comments

Is your child in the Hall of Fame for 2012-2013?
Check your child's status on Artsonia.

Dryden Art Room News, May 2, 2013 from Mrs. Tricia Fuglestad, Dryden's Art Teacher

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Is your child in the HALL of FAME?

05/02/2013

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5 pieces of art, 5 fan club members, and 5 approved comments

Is your child in the Hall of Fame for 2012-2013?
Check your child's status on Artsonia.

Winners 2010-2011

Winners 2011-2012

Have you written a comment for your child?
Learn how to do this in my screencast here.

Parents, do you know how to login and check comments?
Learn how to do this in my screencast here.

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Shadow Art

05/02/2013

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One group of fifth grade students was back from their field trip in time for art class. So we decided to try something new, Shadow Art, with just that group to see how it would work.
For the past few weeks 5th graders had been working on their flying animations by creating the figure, landscape, and then animating both together on the computer. View them here. So we projected their landscapes digitally on the board and took out our toy dinosaurs. What? Doesn't every art room have a stash of toy dinosaurs? We created a shadow by holding it in front of the projector and snapped a photo.

We projected the digital versions of our landscapes on our board

Students chose their favorite dinosaur toy to create a shadow

The snapshot of the board was enhanced with filters to look old fashioned

View the rest of these images in our gallery on Artsonia here.

Lesson idea from The Art of ED
View it here.

We watched a Godzilla Educational Movie to prepare us for this activity. Watch it here or below.

This isn't the first time Dryden students worked with shadows.
We made an entire Fugleflick in shadows called, "Show of Hands".
View this amazing video here.

Godzilla Educational Movie from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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AHML ART SHOW 2013

05/01/2013

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May 1st was the opening reception for the Arlington Heights Memorial Library School District 25 Art Show. Dryden artists and their families mingled with student artists from across the district to celebrate the beautiful art.

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The Possibilities with our iPads

05/01/2013

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Dryden Raffle Winners who won the "Make a Bookmark" prize met with me during lunch recess to create a Cat-in-a-hat-ify bookmark of themselves using our new art room iPads purchased from winning the McGraw-Hill STEMie award last fall!
We are so excited about the new ways of creating and exploring art these iPads will bring.

More about our Bookmark Project:
Students used these items from my dropbox folder and a photo they took on their ipad to layer, resize, and position the elements of the bookmark in the Brushes App (can do this in Sketchbook Express too). Then they used the ink dropper to choose a matching color to complete the background layer.
View the gallery on Artsonia here.

Don't have dropbox yet? Click here. Want to make a Weebly? Click here.

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Wild Things with Visual Texture

04/28/2013

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View the 1st grade Wild Things with Visual Texture on Artsonia here.

You may also want to see this Fugleflick video about VISUAL TEXTURE.

A picture I snapped of the first graders working on their Wild Thing Paintings.

listen to ‘Ryan explains visual texture’ on Audioboo

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Flying Fifth Graders

04/28/2013

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Flying figure drawn on iPads w/SketchbookX

Tar Beach Inspired landscape

Edited as an animation in Keynote (from iWorks suite)

Flying Fifth Graders from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

More about this project:
1. Fifth graders used this template to help them create their self-portrait flying on the iPads using Sketchbook Express. They deleted the template and emailed just their final drawings. See the gallery of images here.

2. Students were inspired by the story, Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold while creating a landscape that was to show depth, overlapping, and a high horizon line. See the gallery of images here.

3. Students used Keynote to animate the digital figure and landscapes. I created a tutorial showing all the steps to help them. View it below or here. I put screenshots from their animation movie on artsoniain this gallery.

4. Students helped sing and compose an original flying song using garageband on the iPad (using the built-in instruments) and the desktop version to add voices.

Keynote Animation Tutorial from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Different is Good Wins Best of Show

04/27/2013

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Friday, April 26th was the second annual TEAM SCREEN TEST. Our 5th grade Fugleflick, Different is Good, screened at this event along with student videos from the Chicagoland suburbs. Take a look at the photos and the animoto video to see what the event was like for our young filmmakers.
Trivia: Dryden student filmmakers were the youngest at the festival. All the other students were middle schoolers.

Different is Good tied for best of show at the festival. Our filmmakers will join the other winning team from Quest Academy for a movie and pizza night at the Prairie Center for the Arts in the near future.
Trivia: Dryden Filmmakers won Best of Show in 2012 also.
See the post from last year.

Different is Good embraces diversity and uses art as a metaphor for celebrating our differences. View the Fugleflick below or at this link.