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AHML Art Show 2018

4/27/2018

Dryden 3rd grader, Dylan and our Principal, Akemi Sessler, admiring her Magic Carpet Painting at the AHML art show reception. Click to see the AHML write up of the D25 Art Show

Dryden's art display at AHML

iPads are continuously looping three digital videos made by Dryden students

While I was setting up the banners, one of my 1st grade students brought over her dad and little sister to see her penguin animation playing on one of the iPads.
You can view the 3 videos
5-1 Movement over Movement https://vimeo.com/259043561
3-3 Magic Carpet Ride https://vimeo.com/250135805
1st Grade Clay Penguin Animations https://vimeo.com/260237243

3D Picasso Collages by 2nd Graders

Frederick Douglass Lego Mural made by 2nd Graders

Reception

The Daily Herald wrote a story about the AHML art reception. Read it here.

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Transdigital Display

4/22/2018

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The flipbookits were attached to illustration board with brass fasteners. Then I printed and loaded the flipbook cards into the boxes.

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Progression Animation Challenge

4/17/2018

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5th graders have been studying the magical animations of Evan Hilton to try to understand how they are made. We looked frame by frame at his ideas and a couple ideas from Andy Martin that used clay and other objects in a progression of stages to make things melt, shrink, grow, change, and other magical things. I gave my students these think sheets to help them make a plan for an animation using objects from the art room and model magic clay. Each student will be the director of their short stop-motion animation so, they have to be able to clearly communicate their vision to their animators and photographer when it's their turn to make the magic happen.

Students Working:

Working on building clay models in a progression to create an illusion with stop motion animation

Results: students' illusions

Alena 5-1

Cathryn 5-1

Jack F 5-1

Travis 5-1

Addie 5-2

Kamila 5-2

Costa 5-2

Nikolas 5-2

Sam 5-2

Kylie 5-2

Zachary 5-2

Madeline 5-2

Jessica 5-3

Mia K. 5-3

Keith 5-3

Alessandra 5-4

Anne 5-4

Blaike 5-4

Matthew 5-4

Noah 5-4

Adrian 5-4

Erik 4-4

Xander 5-4

Olivia S. 5-4

Riley 5-4

5-1 Progression Animations from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-2 Progression Animations from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-3 Progression Animations from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Resources:

Snowman Progression Animation (3rd gr)
See the post.

Plasticine Rhythm from Handymartian on Vimeo.

Click to view Evan Hilton's videos

Feedback from our inspiration:

Just read your blog post and your students work was incredible! I was never even close to that good when I first started and I was 18 haha. Thank you for sharing my work, it really means a lot! <3
— Evan Hilton (@hiltonic_) April 24, 2018

Thank you so much for sharing this to me! I absolutely love the commentary haha... The photos and videos you share of your students making animations really makes my day!!
— Evan Hilton (@hiltonic_) May 8, 2018

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Redefining the Art Room

4/15/2018

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My transdigital approach to art education merges both traditional and digital methods across physical and digital spaces while giving students an opportunity to dive into ideas that were previously beyond what I could otherwise offer. Take a peek at the lessons I designed to help redefine learning for my elementary art students.

Redefining the Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Links to Lessons Showcased in Video:

Animating Ourselves with Stop Motion
Carousel Horse Paintings that students rode and animated digitally
Black History Lego Mural (in my background as I spoke)
Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope using digital art and Flipbookits
Keith Haring Paintings and Stop Motion Animation
Penguin Clay Sculptures and Stop Motion Animations
Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights) based on Van Gogh's Art
Green Screen FX: Spin, Jump, Fall into/out of Art
Haunted Custom Holograms: flipbook animation, rotation, and prism
Animated Glow drawn profile view and animated aliens
Make it Then Move it Patterned Figure Animations
Color Mixing Scientists Bubble Animations
Magic Carpets over Landmarks of the US art, green screen video & stop motion
Progression Animation of snowmen in stages interacting with animator's hand
Don't Crush My Dreams Student-Created Art-Related Fugleflick
Try Your Best, Fugleflick about Growth Mindset
Strange Magic Paper Cut stop motion animation
Creating Media for Learning, contributed to book, AR of Fuglelflick
Allow Us to Illustrate, Fugleflick about visual literacy and the role of illustration
View our award-winning Fugleflicks and those screened at film festivals
View all 225+ STEAM art Lessons from this one link

Click image to view over 225 STEAM ART Lessons

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Art Institute of Chicago Trip 2018

4/13/2018

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Fourth graders have been preparing for their field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago for week now through interactive games that got them looking, thinking, and talking about the collection at our world class museum a short drive away. Watch our slideshow video and view our LIVE tweets from the event below.

Hey? You made it all the way down here. Thanks for looking!
Do you want to know about the games we used to prep for this trip?

I wrote a post about our resources here. And, I wrote up one game for School Arts Magazine. You can learn more about it here.

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Kindergarten Self-Portraits

4/6/2018

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The kindergarteners learned how to draw their self-portraits after they created a quick pre- sketch. Here they are comparing their finished paintings to their sketch. They used my ERASER method to help find the right placement and size for the eyes and ears. Then we measured against each feature to draw the lips, neck, and shoulders.

My step-by-step ppt showing each step of the drawing, painting, and tracing to make these kindergarten self portraits is available for download from TpT.
Click here.

Step One: Build a Face

I made a screencast tutorial for using my Build a Face Digital Game .
It is designed in mimio software which you can download for free.
The game is available on TpT. You can download the game here.

Step Two: Practice Sketch

I demonstrate on the interactive board (over a digital version of this handout) how I would draw eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and a collar to make my portrait. Then, students try their best individually to problem-solve their own sketch.

I like to save these sketches and pull them out on the last day so students can compare.

After their painting is complete I tape their sketch to the back of their portrait.

Step Three: Pin the Feature on the Face

I made a physical game to help my students learn about the placement of the features of the face. It is just like pin the tail on the donkey.
I made version that you can print out big and assemble yourself here on TpT.

Step Four: Draw the Portrait

One of the ways I help my students find the right size and placement for their features is what I call, the ERASER trick. I have them physically place two erasers in the middle of the oval and draw a "rainbow line" above, and a "smile line" below to make the football shaped eyes in the center of the head. They might look a bit big at first, but many of these eyes shrink during the painting process when they accidentally fill them in with skin.

We don't draw the nose until the very last step in the black marker stage since we're going to cover that space with skin color anyway. We also just fill the whole top of the head with skin too and layer the hair on the dry paint it next time. That way they can make decisions about their hairline by see how much forehead is remaining as they paint.

Step Five: Color Mixing for Skin

I put out containers of white with squirts of red, blue, and yellow (the primary colors) for students to stir up. We don't get too caught up in our exact shade. Instead we see that we're all made from the same ingredients.

Step Six: Paint everything else

This is the most stressful day of the project. The kids have 1/2 hour to paint HAIR, EYES, LIPS, and the SHIRT. We have to wash and dry our brush between each step, try hard not to drip all over the portrait, and understand where to paint as we paint.
This is the day that makes or breaks the lesson. HINT- Don't do this step the day before Spring Break (like I did once UGH!)

There are no pictures available for this step of the lesson because I am too busy running around the room, coaching students, reminding them to dip their (brush) tip and do not drip, while putting out little "fires" created by messy fingers, happy artists pointing with drippy paint brushes, water cup spills as they splash around their brushes to clean them, etc. Even if I did think about taking a photo, my hands would be too messy to touch the camera.

Step Seven: Black Marker

For this step, I DRAW-then THEY DRAW. I want to guide them through each step of the portrait to help them think and make thoughtful decision. I draw digitally so that I can show them what NOT to do. Then I hit UNDO and ask them if they can do that with their permanent black markers. That helps them slow down and avoid mistakes as they work. Sometimes we watch our superhero BLACK MARKER video for before we begin.

Step Eight: Cut out

You would think this would be a very straight forward step, but kindergarteners have a way of surprising you. I've seen them follow black lines into the interior of the portrait and cut off ears, shoulders, and even heads. So, I give them a pep talk before we cut to try to help them focus on cutting away the WHITE paper. I pretend to cut the wrong lines and ask them what would happen? This prevents lots of mistakes. If all goes well, they may even have time to look at their before sketch next to (after instruction) art.

Finished Portraits on Artsonia

Click the image to see the finished gallery of Kindergarten Portraits on Artsonia

Digital Extension: Chatterpix

This year, my Thursday (PM) kindergarteners were a step ahead of my other batch so I planned a one-day digital extension lesson using their portraits.
I asked the second graders who had art before Kdgr how I should set up the room for their digital project. They suggested and helped me do the configuration above so kids could sit on the mat with the iPad in their laps. This way I could see their screens and they can see me point to my mirrored iPad on the screen.

The Plan: Speak through our Art

The kindergarteners have already started learning the Kindergarten song with their music teacher. So, we sang it again together using my audio recording and my visual lyrics sheet. These are both available for download on TpT he re.
The plan was to download their portraits from the dropbox, load it into chatterpix, draw the line between their lips, and speak one part of the Kindergarten song.

The Results: Super Cuteness

A few nerves and recording issues slowed down the process. So, the 10 minutes in each class remaining after setting up the portrait wasn't enough to record the whole song. However we have this super cute video to show for ourselves. Thank you to Mrs. Beane for lending another set of hands and helping to troubleshoot our time issue.

KINDERGARTEN Song in Chatterpix from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Here is the second verse sang by K-4 to our visitor from Oklahoma.

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Spect-ART-acles in May's School Arts

4/4/2018

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I wrote up an article describing our Spect-ART-acles game that we play in 4th grade to prepare for out trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. It is in the May 2018 School Arts Magazine Issue. View it online here.

Here are the images they used of our students wearing their image on their glasses similar to the game Headbanz.
http://www.schoolartsdigital.com/i/960630-may-2018/40