Our FREE Hall of Fame Raffle DATE Announced! 05/03/2012
 This is the time of year that we make sure our young artists have all three participation ribbons on artsonia so that they can be automatically entered into the HALL of Fame Raffle. Great prizes and it's all FREE! If you forgot how to check comments watch this tutorial I made for you here. If you need a security key code, please email me at tfuglestad@sd25.org Any child in the Hall of Fame by May 17th will be entered into the Raffle on May 18th!  Don't forget our special iPad Fundraiser where 25% of your Artsonia purchases go towards an ipad for the art room. Use this LINK to enter your child's screen name and shop! Add Comment Arlington Heights Memorial Library Art Show 05/01/2012
The district has art up from all 9 buildings for the entire month of May at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Come by and see! Here is a preview from the artists' reception on Tuesday night. See the picts below or the animoto video that includes all the pictures I snapped. Superhero Silhouettes 05/01/2012
Today I was asked how we made our Superhero Silhouettes. I thought I would try to explain with a screencast video (below). We first did a kinesthetic activity where we all became the superheroes found in this Superhero ABC book using body language to warm up for our photo. We tried to imagine ourselves as a superhero of good character defend the pillars of character and picked a pose that matched our powers. Here is their worksheet that helped them brainstorm. View the rest of the artwork on our Artsonia gallery here. 6 Must Have Apps for Art 04/30/2012
I was just asked today to give my top 6 App picks for my art class. I had to go by experience with what I'm using, what my students are enjoying, and what we will definitely use again. Here they are:  Brushes App We use it for painting in layers: See our portraits See our rotoscope project We use if for graphic design: See our Rene Magritte spoof.  Doink App This is a vector based animation app that is easy to use and understand. See the animated aliens my 3rd graders created using this app with styluses.  Percolator App This app works with the ipod's or ipad's camera to transform a photo into a beautiful piece of abstract art. See my students transform their art here.  Wordfoto App This app redefines the concept of adding an artist statement to artwork. Take a look at the beautiful results when my students used this app.  Dropbox App This is a wonderful free app that helps you distribute or collect files on the ipad. It syncs to your desktop and makes life easier! Please use my referral link so I can have some bonus space:)  Reflection App This is a download for your desktop to magically mirror your ipad so you can work along with your students. Here is a pict of how I use it projected onto my interactive whiteboard. New Fugleflicks Make their Big Screen Debut 04/28/2012
Friday, April 27th was the BIG SCREEN debut of our two newest Fugleflicks at the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts first annual Team Test Film Fest 2012. Push up Your Sleeves (a short video that quickly demonstrates how to enter the art room featuring an original song performed, recorded, filmed, & edited by 5-2 students) View behind the scenes video to see them working. Elementary Musical (a musical introduction to the Elements of Art featuring an original song performed, recorded, filmed, & edited by 5-3 students) View behind the scenes video to see them working. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our fifth grade students were invited on stage to introduce their movies and discuss the filmmaking process while fielding questions from the host and audience. This uncut version shows their whole experience. What a great opportunity to have an authentic audience. If you don't have 25 minutes to watch the students on stage fielding question, then consider taking one minute to see them accept their award below in this super short cut version. Winning Best in Show from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. After watching all of the team films our host announced the judge's pick for Best of Show. Congratulations to Elementary Art Filmmakers!  The Aliens have Landed! 04/24/2012
Third graders used our class set of styluses, the ipads, and an animation app called Doink to create these amazing animations. They drew their original alien in four running poses (download my handout here) using the onion skinning technique then animated their drawing sequence across the stage in a composition entering left and exiting right. This was then exported as a quicktime movie and emailed to me to gather. Take a look at all the drawing steps and learning that happened along the way. I collected the first group of aliens from 3-3 and made them into this movie below. 3-1 was very rushed at the end trying to get them turned in before class ended and the ipads had to be returned. But they still made some adorable animations. See below. 3-2 finished their alien animations on Wednesday. Take a look at Aliens on the Loose! below 3-4 had some visiting art teacher superheroes from SD 46 come to the rescue. It took all 7 art teachers to help this group (far behind on the project) finish the last two drawings and go through all the other necessary steps for animating, converting, and emailing their pieces in to me. Thank you! Watch their Alien Race below. 3-4 Alien Race from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Below is a tutorial that shows the drawing steps for creating the effect of running as well as the composition steps that make the running alien come in from the left of screen and exit right. Thank you Doink for featuring this project on your Doink Blog! We Knew Her When 04/23/2012
I just learned that a former Dryden Student and Fugleflick Filmmaker Abigail (class of 2007) is going to play the lead role in her high school musical production of Sound of Music. Learn more here. This made me want to look back at the days we knew her when and celebrate her theatrical moments with us in the making of Young Sloppy Brush and ART-iculation (both were award winning student videos-see below).  Quote from Abigail's Parents: "You have played a big role in Abigail's artistic/creative development, imprinting her at an early age with the confidence she needed to let her light shine. Please never underestimate the importance of believing for the best in kids, especially the shy ones!" UPDATE: Just returned from watching Abby's Performance! Here she is as Governess Maria teaching the children how to sing. Abby as Maria from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Strive for Artistry 04/22/2012
I received an email from a teacher asking about our Self-Portrait lesson in Fifth Grade (view the full gallery of images on Artsonia). I thought, maybe someone else might like to hear the same answers I gave her about how we do this project and my product recommendations so I posted the questions and my answers below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Do you use Tempera paint? Yes, What brand? Sax's brand Versatemp 2. Do you pre-mix fleshtones or have the kids do it? I use the multicultural paints and let them pick one for skin and one for shade of their skin. 3. How do you handle the distribution of paint? I have these great containers that we just keep refilling. We call the skin colors by number just to have a reference. I write the number on the lids (looks like these). I see a lot of different colors in your students' work, but I can't imagine having every color out on every table! With these containers I just set out three strips of colors one is skin, one is primary/secondary and one is black, white, gray, and browns. 4. Do you have them outline with Sharpie last? I prefer Redimark Permanent markers because they're thicker and juicer. I show them our movie about black marker first to get motivated to rescue their painting from Sloppy Brush. 5. How do you get them to do such a nice, neat job?! Thank you! but I really try to enforce craftsmanship. I just wrote an article about Good Artistry for the May issue of School Arts Magazine. You can view it here.   Congratulations to fifth graders: Jessica, Dom, Kate, Alexa, Liana, Emma, Vanessa, Elle, Mark, and Samantha Our Fugleflick: Elementary Musical tied for first place in NextVista's Spring Shoots video contest for the collaboration strand. See our video below and explore the other winners here. (While you're their watch "Careers in Art" our 2011 Student Video of the year winner!) Doink in Cinemagram (Double App Fun!) 04/20/2012
My third graders are showing off the beginnings of their animation project in the Doink App through the Cinemagram app. Explore both! 
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About MeTricia Fuglestad, NBCT 07 is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. Archivestads
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