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UV Cityscapes in One-Point Perspective

4/1/2019

5th graders learned how to draw a city scene with one-point perspective. This meant that they created a vanishing point with converging lines. They learned to use their ruler to draw every line towards the vanishing point for the side of the buildings facing the street. We spent a long time exploring this concept, drawing, revising, and enhancing our work.

UPDATE: I Finally Packaged this lesson!

Download a very detailed packaged lesson to make this project with your students

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Color Mixing Scientists

3/1/2018

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Third graders turned shapes (circle, triangle, and rectangle) into forms (sphere, cone, and cylinder). Then made these forms look like vessels used for scientific experiments (florence flask, erlenmeyer flask, and beaker).

Shapes

science forms

drawing of forms with water line

secondary color experiments

vanishing point and converging lines

pattern with complementary colors

Students busily painting

The forms were cut out and glued onto a finished background

Student Gallery on Artsonia

Fugleflick Resources for art concepts:

Our Fugleflick, Deep Space, contains forms with foreground, middle ground, and background with overlapping,

Deep Space from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Our Fugleflick, Bye Bye Road, is a fun sing along to a Beatles' tune about things to look for in an image that shows depth including a vanishing point, converging lines, and relative sizes.

Bye Bye Road from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Our Fugleflick, Complementary in Every Way, introduces the color wheel including primary, secondary, and complementary colors.

Complementary in Every Way from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital extension: Animating Bubbles

Students will animate bubbles coming from the scientists' vessels .

Tutorial: How to animate the bubbles

Bubbles Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Finished Animations: all in one movie

3rd Grade Color Mixing Scientists from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Connecting with Celeste

11/6/2017

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Our district is embarking on a ONE BOOK ONE SCHOOL event where every student reads (or is read to) the story, A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole. Here are some ideas I thought of for connecting with the story through art, animation, and character counts.

Draw Celeste

Below is a handout I created to help students see the shapes in Celeste's form to help you draw. The original illustration by Henry Cole is a value drawing. The pencil strokes become the texture of the fur. He shows highlights and shadows by adding more or less graphite from the pencil. This technique looks more 3-D than just filling in the drawing.

Drawing Celeste with Henry Cole from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Fly with Lafayette the Osprey

Lafayette and Celeste's Basket

1. Fly using green screen video masked into a still image over a video of clouds

2. Digitally layer in a still photo into the basket and create an animation path in Do Ink.

Illustration by Henry Cole

Redrawn in Do Ink Animation App

Be as kind-hearted as an osprey

As Small as a Mouse

Use Brushes Redux to draw over a photo of a small space in the room. Then enter the space with the Do Ink green screen app. Play with relative size by becoming as small as a mouse (framed mice portraits optional).

When you draw this little space you need to take a close up photo. You can change details and simplify the picture if you want. I made the background a flat wall and pretended the items on the table cast a shadow on the wall. I also made the wood grain very simple to help keep the space from becoming complicated.

Resources

Henry Cole wrote and illustrated A Nest for Celeste. He was able to tell us with words and pictures about the characters, setting, and all the elements of the story. See this Fugleflick about the importance of Illustrations.

Allow us to Illustrate from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Click the image to view the book trailer for A Nest for Celeste

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Exquisite Corpse Collaborative #DotDay

9/25/2017

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Click the box image to view what I purchased for this project.

5th graders are going to do an all grade-level collaboration in celebration of International Dot Day. They will contribute an exquisite corpse drawing of either a HEAD, MIDDLE, or LEGS on a cardboard cube. This idea was inspired by the IAEA conference. They had the cubes set up on tables for us all to draw on in pencil. I took some back with me to inspire my students...and it worked. My students were very inspired by them and were begging to try it too. So, I used our amazon gift card from winning a NextVista.org contest to buy the boxes for this year.

Planning:

Here is a graphic I made to describe my plan. Every student in 5th grade is part of a large collaboration, so I want them to understand the big picture.

Planning sheet for the Exquisite Corpse Project

Inspiration/Resources:

See the slideshow video below for creative solutions from artists and illustrators. These examples come from this Kids @ Random lesson. I made them into handouts as well.

Exquisite Corpse Examples by Slidely Slideshow

I made these into a four-page handout to print and put at tables as resources.

Questioning:

When I was at the IAEA conference last year, I was very inspired by this lesson. Not everyone was taking the time to create, so I did three drawings on one side of a stack of boxes. Later, I took this picture and reflected. I like to be different and break the rules when I create art, but would that work during a collaboration?

Examples: Bold, big, patterned, painted

My examples (made digitally using Brushes Redux)

My examples painted on cardboard boxes

Students Working: (in progress)

Students are done designing their "head", "middle", or "legs" and began their first step of painting. They traced their design in black marker, erased the pencil lines, and painted a solid background color. They had to choose a color that was different than their neighbors. Each started painting from right to left so that the middle line of paint might be dry when the second artist paints next to it. The boxes are laid flat until we are finished painting. I pulled some off the drying rack (below) to get a glimpse of some future combinations. Aren't these fun?

Student Results:

Below is a peek at some of our finished painted heads, middles, and legs. View the whole gallery on Artsonia here.

Digital Exquisite Corpse Collages

Each student will make a digital collage of their piece and two classmates using Pic Collage for Kids. See the gallery here.

Made by teacher at IAEA

My painted examples

Label for students to hang near their interactive art installation

These exquisite corpse collaborations will be sculptural interactive pieces. Other students throughout the school will enjoy spinning the head, body, and legs to make new combinations. So, the fifth graders will need to make a plan for where they will install each set, make directions that invite respectful engagement, and a museum label that credits each artist.
I also hope to assign students to check on the installations each day to make sure they are respected.

All of the exquisite corpses were mounted up on a base with a museum label. Student wrote the artist names, chose locations, installed and photographed them, then wrote a morning announcement to announce them to the school community.

Math Problems based on Art

Our 24 boxes with various combinations created these math problems.
View the answers here.

Resource: Monster Mixer Online Game

This game, Monster Mixer by Crayola, might help students generate some fun monster themed combinations when they begin drawing their ideas. I collected a bunch of their monster combinations and printed them out as another resource for my students (below).

Here is another online game called switcheroo by crayola that helps you think of creative heads, middles, and legs as well as arms, wings, and whatevers...

Digital Extension:

CREATING DIGITALLY: Years ago, before we were a 1:1 iPad art room, we used our limited number of iPads to make collaborative exquisite corpse drawings. Here is a link to that lesson and template.

DISPLAYING DIGITALLY: Each square created will be photographed for students' online digital art gallery. These can be added to folders on our dropbox where students can combine a head, middle, and legs of their choices (one being their own) to make a fun digital combination. I used the Superimpose app and its perspective tool to line up the squares on top of a real photo to create this effect.

USING PERSPECTIVE TOOL IN SUPERIMPOSE APP:
First import the template (above) as the background layer then follow these steps. I made the directions into this printable PDF here or view the pages below.

5th graders inspiring us all

Exquisite Corpse blocks sitting on the art room counter

During the last week of school we are going to use the fifth graders' art to inspire the rest of the school to try the Exquisite Corpse game using the game sheet below or here.

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Playing with Relative Size

9/14/2017

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Relative Size refers to clues in the picture that help you figure out the size of objects.

Playing with relative size forces the viewer to imagine something much bigger or much smaller than seemingly possible.
Below is a drawing of a fireplace mantel. It has a candle and picture frames. You would imagine that the objects are only about 8"-12" high. Now when you place a human on the mantel that confuses the scene. Either the mantel is much bigger than you thought or the human is a small as a mouse.

Below is a drawing of a building in Arlington Heights. You can tell from the size of the sidewalk and umbrella tables compared to the building that it's probably over 10 stories tall. Now when we add a human into the picture as tall as the building it makes you wonder if the building is much smaller or the human is monstrously big.

Can you tell in this animation that something extra had to happen to make it convincing that the human was interacting with the building? I'll explain below.

How did you do that?

The green screen app by Do Ink allows you to layer video over or under an image. You can record in real time using the camera mode or do what I did above. I recorded the student in front of green screen first which allowed them to crop, resize, and find the best placement over their drawing to create the illusion that they are as small as a mouse according to relative size.

To make it look like the human can stand behind the building and in front of the sky we had to import the scene twice. You'll see on my screenshot above that I sandwiched the green screen footage between duplicate images. Then, I erased the background from the top image using the masking tools in the app. Here is what it might have looked like if you were just viewing it alone. I can do this trick in the superimpose app as well and then import it, but it's not necessary since the Green Screen app has all the tools for erasing too.

Tutorial for Relative Size in Green Screen App by Do Ink from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Playing with relative size resources:

Take a look at this commercial. It's fun to see the inflatable gorilla set loose in the city. Does it's size seem to change when you compare it to the relative size of the objects around it?

This clip from the Disney adaptation of the book, BFG (Big Friendly Giant) makes everyone feel as small as a mouse when you see the world from the point of view of BFG.

A group of 4th graders used their profile drawings and green screen videos of 1st graders to play with relative size. We called this movie, Little Buddies. See this post for more info.

Another way to demonstrate that students understand relative size is using animation to show size change from foreground (bigger) to background (smaller) along with the other aspects of creating the illusion of depth. See this lesson for more info.

Work on estimation by looking at relative size to build number sense.

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Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights)

1/4/2017

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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).

Resources:

Click for Bio Video

Click for BrainPop Jr

Bye Bye Road from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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.

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Godzilla's Perspective

7/27/2013

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Why not use Godzilla as a tool for teaching perspective to your students on iPads?

Objective:
One-point perspective of a cityscape using converging lines and a vanishing point with an animation of diminishing sizes to demonstrate depth.
<---See my example

Use layers in Sketchbook Express to create background, buildings, and converging lines for perspective that you can delete later. Click the image to view it larger.