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Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights)

1/4/2017

Click to see the painting in the Google Cultural Project where you can zoom in very closely

Fourth graders are working on a piece of art inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom called Room at Arles. They are learning to draw in perspective with a vanishing point, about Van Gogh's work, and thinking about how to customize their drawing to make it more like their bedroom in Arlington Heights (or Mt. Prospect).

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Drawing a Bedroom in Perspective:

Below are a series of slides from our lesson that lead the students through the steps of creating the basic parts of their bedroom inspired by the Van Gogh painting.

Click to view the gallery of sketches on Artsonia. These will be painted soon.

Finished Paintings:

View their gallery of finished paintings on Artsonia at this link.

Digital Extension:

practice round of Expressions in Expressionism

Students will use the Green Screen app by DoInk to enter the bedroom that they create. They will each get a random activity or emotion to express while in this expressionism inspired artwork relying on body language to tell the story.

"You're Kidding!"

Dancing to Music

Students used Superimpose app to enter the painting with a shadow. Click to view gallery

Entering the Artwork:

Since I happen to own a chair like the one found in Vincent Van Gogh's painting, students made their rooms without a chair so that they could sit on it when they digitally entered their artwork. Below is a quick diagram of the plan for layering a digital video over a digital image using the Green Screen app by DoInk.

See the art gallery on Artsonia here.

4-1 Enter their Artwork from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

4-2 Enters their Artwork from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

4-3 Enters their Artwork from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

4-4 Enters their Artwork from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

How we entered the artwork:

See vimeo.com/232162811this video for a quick look at how we entered the artwork with the Green Screen App by Do Ink.

Expressing Yourself in Expressionism from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

2 Comments

mary helen campbell

9/23/2017 06:49:41 pm

Your so awesome its scary!!! I teach art to k-12. I did undergrad at the school of the art Institute of Chicago in the 80's and went through grad school as a painter at Washington University in 92,a bagillion years ago! computer tech was just beginning! Teaching tech has been a daunting challenge for me. But one I feel I need to start getting a handle on. Your the first blog/person I have come across who makes using tech in the classroom seem possible, creative and rewarding! thank you!

Tricia

9/23/2017 07:08:13 pm

Thank you Mary for your kind words. I'm glad my posts help take some of the fear out of integrating tech. Art teachers are kinda on their own when it comes to getting access to technology and its implementation. I've tried to make what I've learned available for that very reason.

About Me

Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT,
is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in K-12 technology integration. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.