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AHML's 25th Art Show for D25

4/28/2017

The AHML sent out a photographer to Dryden's art room for their community newsletter

I’m super excited about this year’s Arlington Heights Memorial Library Art Show festivities because I am also celebrating my 25th year in the district teaching art. I was hired soon after the referendum was passed that put art teachers and art rooms in our buildings. I was fresh out of college back then and have spent my entire adult life teaching D25 kids. For the past 24 years I’ve been based at Dryden.

This year AHML is highlighting Dryden in some special ways:
1. They featured Dryden's art students in their community newsletter for May 2017
2. They are allowing me to Take OVER the AHML Instagram account in May
3. They invited me to bring in the 2nd graders' Collaborative Symmetry Lego Designs
4. They are piloting an animation display on iPads for the month using 3 animated glows

5. They will screen the Fugleflick, Don't Crush My Dreams at the reception. It's a perfect fit since it describes the feelings and dreams of artwork on display (and it's adorable!)

AHML District Art Show Reception
May 3rd, 6-7:30pm
The art will remain on view throughout the month of May

Clay Masks by 5th Graders

Collaborative Lego Designs with Rotational Symmetry

Digital display of students' animations, 2D banners, Lego Designs, (3D not shown and Fugleflick will screen across the room, 71 Dryden Artists Featured in total

AHML Artists' Reception

Here are images and video clips put together in one video slideshow from the night of our big artists' reception. AHML certainly know how to make our students feel special.

AHML Art Show 2017 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Instagram Takeover began!

Click the image to view the AHML instagram account where I will be posting all month long

In the News...

Click to read the article by the Daily Herald about our art show

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Cat-in-a-hat-ifying Ourselves

4/27/2017

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Posing in the Green Screen App by Do Ink to add Hats and Bows

Observational Drawing, Literacy, & Tech

Third graders are working on an observational drawing of themselves wearing a Cat-in-a-Hat Hat and bow holding their favorite Dr. Seuss book. These photos were taken using the Green Screen App by Do Ink to magically add the hat. I printed the photos to the copier so students could use it for a 1:1 size drawing. Since their drawing was the same size as the photo, they cut them out and traced the edges. I taught them some measuring and looking tricks to help them translate what they saw into a contour line drawing.

Students spent 3 class sessions working on making these observational drawings, tracing them in sharpie marker, then erasing all hints of the pencil line sketch. They were then photographed and enhanced with high contrast filters. View their gallery on Artsonia.

View Student Sketches on Artsonia

Coloring these Sketches Digitally

Students are using the Colorscape app on the iPads to color these drawings. This app allows you to color over a black and white drawing without losing your black lines.

Finished Colored Cat-in-a-hat-ified Art

Click to view the gallery of finished colored drawings on Artsonia

Bookmarks

Students will make a 2x6 inch bookmark so they could put themselves reading a book in a book.

Resources: two useful Fugleflicks

These drawings are considered contour line drawings since they do not include value or shading. View Drawing from Experience to hear how Grandpa Pencil explains contour line drawing to Baby Pencil (fresh from the box).

Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Observational drawing is a skill that will make any student more observant. It activates the mathematical side of your brain as you translate the what you see into what you draw. It requires a lot of concentration but the results can be very exciting to young artist as they start to create likeness. View Observational Drawing for a quick lesson.

Observational Drawing from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Similar Project: Photo Booth Version

Before we had iPads and the Green Screen App we did a similar project using photo booth on the classroom desktop mac. I made a custom effect that put a hat and bow on each student when they came up for a still picture to the machine. We printed this and then free hand drew from our imagination what the rest of our body would look like holding a Dr. Seuss book. As you could imagine, we struggled with likenesses even more since we had less information to look at for accurate drawings. See the gallery of work.

Cat in the Hat Promo 1 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital Extension: Bookmarks

These designs would look awesome as bookmarks. See what we've done in the past.

I did a post long ago about how to Cat-in-a-hat-ify your students using images I prepared: bow, hat, and nose. These images are all saved with a transparent background so they can layer nicely into your work.

View the post here

Or go directly to this link
where you can find my folder of images including a blank Cat in a Hat book cover template.

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Creativity in the Classroom

4/24/2017

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I put together this short movie below to showcase how we infuse creativity and technology in Dryden's Art Program. This video has been included in the K12 Online Conference collaborative video about creativity crafted by Samuel Wright in Vienna. It includes a peek into almost a dozen international educators' classrooms. Learn more.

Creativity in Dryden's Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Links to lessons showcased above:

I have resources in my blog for everything above so I decided to make a shortcut for you and linking to everything here:

Animating Ourselves with Stop Motion
Keith Haring Paintings and Stop Motion Animation
Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights) based on Van Gogh's Art
Animated Glow drawn profile view and animated aliens
Don't Crush My Dreams Student-Created Art-Related Fugleflick
Strange Magic Paper Cut stop motion animation
Carousel Horse Paintings that students rode and animated digitally
Progression Animation of snowmen in stages interacting with animator's hand
Rotoscope Animation on iPads using Do Ink Animation app
Dancing Silhouettes using Do Ink Green Screen app
Layered and resized silhouettes in Do Ink Green Screen app
Thumbtastic Digital Collage with voice and finger, hand, or thumb puns

Panel Discussion:

Almost a dozen international arts teachers gathered through a google hangout in time zones that spanned the globe to discuss creativity. Watch the recorded discussion here.

#k12onlineconf This Creativity Strand panel has been outstanding! So inspiring to hear from leading educators around the world! pic.twitter.com/TtXXgWP76n
— Peggy George (@pgeorge) April 29, 2017

It's on! #k12onlineconf pic.twitter.com/UQZbOCueoD
— Laura Wright (@MrsLauraW) April 29, 2017

Essential to do a lot of creative playing & experimenting personally as a teacher! by @fuglefun #k12onlineconf
— Wesley Fryer □ (@wfryer) April 29, 2017

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Don't Crush My Dreams

4/22/2017

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UPDATE: Don't Crush My Dreams will make it's Big Screen Debut at the Screen Test Student Fest in Schaumburg, IL on April 22nd.

5th grade Fugleflick Filmmakers of Don't Crush My Dreams

Filmmakers and Festival Laurels

12 5th grade Fugleflick filmmakers used the point of view of artwork on display in the hallways to create this clever musical story mixed with green screen effects, animation, and live video called "Don't Crush my Dreams".

Two filmmakers take a ride on a painting in the hallway using the GS app by Do Ink

This movie, which took 2 months of lunch recesses to create, began with an original song as if from the mouths of the beautiful art on display in Dryden's hallways. The students storyboarded their plan for how to turn the song into a video including many special effects using the Green Screen App by Do Ink, the Drawing and Animation App by Do Ink, Superimpose App, Keynote, Chatterpix, iFunFace, as well as Garageband to make their audio recording and iMovie to edit their final work.

Wild Thing painting gets emotional using Chatterpix and iFunface apps

Touching the artwork makes it want to scream. Effect created with the green screen app by Do Ink

This is the storyboard the filmmakers made to map out a plan for EVERY second of the movie before anything was filmed. Some changes were made as they began working, but many scenes remained as originally envisioned

Fugleflick filmmakers made this video, dedicated to all the ruined art once on display in the hallways, to help grow awareness of the need for respect so no future artwork will have their dreams crushed.

Don't Crush My Dreams from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Screen Test Jr Film Festival

Students were accepted into the Screen Test Jr Film Festival in Schaumburg, IL. The screening is Saturday, April 22nd. Here is the line up for this 5th -8th grade event.

Screen Test Jr 2017 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Vote for Aaron for Artist of the Week

4/19/2017

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First grader Aaron's White Spot Inspector was randomly chosen to run for Artist of the Week through Artsonia.
If he receives more votes than the other students in his age category, he will win a gift certificate for art supplies and a commemorative plaque.
Please take a tiny second to vote. No login needed. Just a click of kindness each day on each device until Saturday. Thank you!

Vote for Aaron's White Spot Inspector

Curious about White Spot Inspectors?
They live in artists' pockets and come out to inspect artwork for any white spots they might need to touch up. See my post here. Go directly to the Fugleflick video here. You can download my lesson from this link. Want to see all the first grade white spot inspectors? See the Artsonia Gallery here.

Results: Thanks to all who took the time to vote

Aaron received 888 votes, but not enough to win this time. Thanks for supporting him.

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Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2017

4/18/2017

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4th graders had a wonderful trip to the Art Institute of Chicago where the looked at the world class collection during a docent-guided tour and scavenger hunt. We tweeted some pictures from the trip below (or find them here) and assembled them into a slideshow.

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Silhouettes Resized and Layered

4/13/2017

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The more I play with the Green Screen app by Do Ink, the more I think of how to use it for layering effects. This app allows you to make silhouettes through a two step process, then layer them onto a photo (or video or live camera feed) and resize it (or spin or turn it) with endless possibilities for curricular applications.

Making Silhouettes:

I've shared before how I learned on accident that you can use the Green Screen app by Do Ink to make video silhouettes. I wrote about it here in my dancing silhouette post and here in my shadow dancing post. Quickly, again, I'll share the process below.

1. Record a student in front of green screen with the chroma filter set to the RED side of the color wheel

2. Save this video of a silhouette surrounded by green.

Layering video over image:

1. Set up a new project in the green screen app and bring a photo linto the lowest (background) layer

Bring in the silhouette video to the layer above. The app will automatically remove the green. Pinch to resize and position the video where you want it.

Layer and resize any videos:

I wrote a post last year about the cool visual effects my students were inventing while making their movie about Movement. View it for details and inspiration here.

Layered video over video, a scene from Fugleflick "Movement" by 5th graders

Skip the silhouette step:

I had my 4th graders use video of 1st graders to make this "Little Buddies" video.

Little Buddies from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Sophie's iPad Animation Party

4/10/2017

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Five young animators met with me on Monday after school for one hour to learn to fly. Second grader, Sophie, won the iPad animation party prize offered through the Dryden Fundraising Raffle before spring break. She and 4 friends learned how to turn themselves into fairies that fly across the flower garden using 3 different apps on our art room iPads.

Animators getting ready to turn themselves into fairies

Posing for photo before green screen

Saved as PNG in superimpose app

Fairy-ified in brushes app saved as png

UsedBrushes app to add a background layer for wings and foreground layer for skirt and wand

We layered a garden photo in the background and our fairy image in the foreground in Do Ink Animation app (composition mode). Then drew out an animation path and save the movie.

Sophie's iPad Party from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Thumbtastic Digital Collage

4/4/2017

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This anthropomorphic thumb, finger, or hand digital project will give students a chance to learn about digital collage, demonstrate an expression with their eyes, mouth, and voice, be creative, and come up with a sentence that includes a hand, thumb, or finger pun. Isn't that thumbtastic?

Have a Thumbtastic Day

Green Thumb

Lady Thumbstad. Crowned Princess of the Finger Lakes

Can you HANDle this?

Obe Thumb Kenobi

Everybody needs Thumbody

Steps: Digital Collage

1. Dress up your thumb, finger, or hand with Barbie or Ken doll clothes/accessories

2. Use the superimpose app to crop, clean, and add background color

3. Turn the iPad camera on yourself. Be expressive to match your character.

4. Merge the photo to the background and bring in your eyes. Use the paintbrush to erase. Click "soft brush" to blend. Adjust color to blend skin.

5. When you're done with the eyes, MERGE again. This flattens the art (so you can't go back and change the eyes again). Bring in the lips. Erase to isolate the lips then use soft brush to blend. Exaggerate the size.

6. When you're working on your thumbtastic creature, think about its voice, personality, and what it might say. Look at my list of puns to get your mind thinking.

7. Use Chatterpix app to record a sentence including a thumb, finger, or hand pun with an expressive voice. Here is mine using, "I'm all thumbs."

RESOURCES:

Use this handout of hand, thumb, and finger puns to get your creative ideas flowing.

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We happen to have two Fugleflicks with Anthropomorphic fingers and hands. These movies include some puns and acting that may get the creative juices flowing.

Show of Hands from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Be Kind to Your Erasers from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Student Work: See the gallery of images

View our Artsonia Gallery to see the finished art or click to enlarge these few below.

Student Videos

Students used their expressive voices to speak their thumb, finger, or hand pun through their finished digital collage. Here are class compilations.

5-1 Thumbtastic Collages from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Thumbtastic Digital Collages by 5-2 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-3 Thumbtastic Collages from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-4 Thumbtastic Digital Collage from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Whistler's Mother

4/1/2017

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James McNeill Whistler. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother), 1871. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Click image to learn more.

Don't have to go to Paris to see it!

I just learned by watching a news story on our local PBS station that Whistler's Mother will be on display at the Art Institute of Chicago at the same time that I will be taking my 4th graders there for a field trip. This painting is iconic. I have put this in the category of "famous and important" ever since I was introduced to it as an art student in school. Since I've never been to Paris I had never had the opportunity to view it in person until now. I'm so excited about having the chance to see this piece in person finally! The only draw back is that the Art Institute loaned out the American Gothic in its place. Luckily, it will return by the start of summer but that is when Whistler's Mother will head back to France.

Fun fact: Buried beneath a layer of paint and behind our lego mural wall in Dryden's hallways is a very old replica of Whistler's Mother made by young artists long ago. Perhaps one day it will be uncovered.

Parodies of Whistler's Mother

This artwork is so iconic that it has shown up in many pop culture parodies or spoofs:

Disney Version

Lego Version

Muppets Version

Interacting with the painting

Click to enlarge then save to camera roll

As a fun way to introduce and familiarize my 4th grade students with the painting, I thought I would mask out the mother and allow them to become the primary subject. I used the Procreate App on the iPad to paint over her while trying to match the colors and textures of the original painting. Using this masked image, students will be able to enter the artwork with the Green Screen App by Do Ink to make a still image or video. It would be interesting to reflect on how they change the mood and story as they compare it to the original.