Category: Tpt

Robot Paintings

7/10/2018

I was asked to make a robot painting for an upcoming kickstarter as a gift to those who donate. If all works out, Annie Log will become a poster for 100 or so supporters. The instructions I received was to make a robot like the one I made a few years ago and connect it someway to the idea of "love" (hence the heart button).

Annie Log

Sketch of Annie Log

Annie Log

Do-Dad & Alumi-Mum

Painting Annie reminded me how fun making physical art can be, so I put down my stylus (from the #keynotedrawingchallenge) and picked up my paintbrush to make some more. My next painting is this lovely couple, Do-Dad & Alumi-Mum.

Original sketch

Do-Dad & Alumi-Mum

Do-Dad and Alumi-Mum Animated using Brushes App and EZgif maker

Polly Phonic

I wanted my next robot to be multifunctional, like early version of an iPhone. It should have a radio, TV, turn table, equalizer, and a telephone all built into one. Meet; Polly. her eyes are AM/FM dials. Her mouth is the speaker for all her integrated gadgets. The telly is in her belly and it happens to have Annie Log on the screen (what?). Her arm becomes the needle of the record player that emerges from the slot next to the jukebox-like selections. There is no dial for the phone since you can just ask Polly to place a call.

Original Sketch-still trying to figure out her name (see writing in margins)

Polly Phonic (comes with a telly in her belly)

An old style ad touting the wonders of Polly Phonic

Polly Phonic Animation made in Brushes App and EZGIF.com

Making my Polly Phonic painting come alive with #AR #AugmentedReality @hpreveal
She puts the FUN in Functional! #animation #steam #transdigital #artsed #edtech #k12artchat #makered #makerspace #robot #robots #creativity pic.twitter.com/9Wigk9tmnC
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) August 9, 2018

Anita Toonup

One of the reasons I love the use of @hpreveal to create this #AR #ARedu idea is because I can fit the #animation to the exact size of the trigger image to make it "come alive" #Edtech #transdigital #d25itspersonal #artsed #k12artchat #steam #digitalmedia #makerspace #makered pic.twitter.com/294SBoHtCG
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) August 7, 2018

Student Learning: concepts

SHAPE BECOMING FORM: 2D translated into 3D
VALUE: Tints and shades of colors
CREATIVITY: ART (AESTHETICS) AND FUNCTION (INVENTIONS)
TITLE: Figurative language, Alliteration, Homonyms
(optional) Integrate a paper circuit and learn the SCIENCE of conductivity & circuits

Lesson ideas: Making Robot Paintings

I have a TON of robot inspired lessons on my blog. Aquick search of "robot" gave me a well over a dozen results. But, I pulled out and linked to the lessons below that would best match the concepts covered above. Click on the photos below to explore.

Paper Circuit Light Up Robot

Click to learn how to make a light up paper circuit robot (step by step and tutorial)

Click to view videos and gallery of students' finished examples

Lesson Resource: How To on TpT

Click image to go to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and download this lesson guide

Digital Extension: Animated Robots

Click to see the post on how to create animated GIFs from physical artwork

I have a blog post about using the Brushes app to make a very simple animated GIF from a digital picture of artwork. I played with this idea using many different subjects however animating robots is the easiest since they can have so many moveable, blinking, or flashing parts. Here is the post and below are more examples.

Flashing buttons, lever flips

Mouth moves, arrows rotate

Compass needle moves, eyes grow,shrink

Eyes blink, heart grows

Student Sketches:

View the gallery on Artsonia of their black and white marker robot sketches.

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Abstract Cats inspired by Laurel Burch

5/20/2018

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Examples of Laurel Burch's Art

Analogous colors are next to each other on the colorwheel.

Student Art: view the gallery

Resources:

I have a "How to Draw" sheet on TpT you can download here to help guide your students through the steps of drawing an abstract cat in the style of Laurel Burch.

Students use patterns to fill these cats. This Fugleflick, Repeat, talks about line, color, and shape pattern. See my students working while listening to this music video.

Using our #repeat #fugleflick to inspire our #patterns for our #laurel birch #abstract cats#drydenrocks #edtech #steam #pattern pic.twitter.com/cvUXIXEKnT
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) May 14, 2018

Repeat from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Other Cats (safeview)

Digital Version of this lesson:

I triedthis lesson a number of years back physically and digitally. A magazine wrote a feature about the project too.

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Corduroy Paintings

5/14/2018

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1st graders drew a teddy bear in the style of Corduroy. This bear painting taught them about visual texture, drawing from shapes tying a knot or bow to help fasten buttons.

Students began by learning how to change a sketch into a detailed drawing.

After practicing, students worked on both a sketch and detailed drawing of Corduroy.

Steps:

1. Trace final drawing in sharpie and erase pencil lines

2. Paint the fur and etch the wet paint using a wooden stylus to make texture

3. Practice craftsmanship strategies for staying in the lines and avoiding messes

4. Fill the background with the color from the book cover. Etch swirls into wet paint.

5. Paint the corduroy outfit and etch vertical lines for the fabric design.

6. Trace the painting with a thicker black marker to hide painting edges

Adding buttons

I made a class set of tying practice boards so students could try to make a bow to attach buttons

Finished Art (see our gallery)

Resources: Two Bear Books Read by Me

Corduroy's Button: song

Download the Lesson: on TpT

Visual Texture: music video

Visual Texture from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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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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Abstract Picasso Styled Relief Sculptures

2/17/2018

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My second graders made a very realistic portrait of George Washington earlier this school year. As a follow up on that project, they explored abstract portraits inspired by Pablo Picasso. They built them from scraps of cardboard, foam core, flat wood pieces, and puzzle pieces. Download the lesson on tpt to lead student through all the steps.

View the gallery of finished art

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4th Grade Monochromatic Portraits

2/8/2018

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Finished Paintings Gallery

4th graders are finishing up their monochromatic self-portrait paintings drawn in a 3/4 pose. Student studied their faces and features in mirrors, measured, and revised their work. Their sketches were so amazing that we photographed them for Artsonia too.

SKETCHES OF PORTRAITS

Portrait ready for the final step, Black Marker, our art room superhero

Watch Black Marker Video

The color for the monochromatic portraits was randomly selected by a table representative picked it from a hat. Luckily there are no girl or boy colors-right kids?

Watch our Monochromatic Video

Resources:

Below is the front page of a handout I created for the students. We used a shade (color mixed with black) to paint shadows. We used the base color (straight from the bottle) for the rest of the skin. We used a tint (color mixed with white) for the background. The hair and shirt were painted with a neutral (color mixed with black & white). We layered tints and shades on the hair with brush strokes that enhanced the direction and texture of hair. We layered a pattern with the base color on the shirt.

One of the biggest struggles for young artists is to draw their own hair and clothing in a convincing way. This side of the handout showed some examples to get them started.

All students went step by step through the drawing. We mapped out the face, measured, and studied our features in the mirror. This ppt lesson helps students problem-solve.

Click to download this resource from TpT

To help students prepare for their self-portrait before we move to the good paper, we practice drawing all the features of our face using the handout I designed below. I like to put the handout in my iPevo interactive software and use the interactive board to draw. Students can come up to the board and give it a try too.

Fugleflick Resources

Monochromatic uses the lyrics of this original song to explain the meaning of the word. The visuals are full of hints as to what monochromatic means as well.

Monochromatic from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Black Marker (super silly) is a favorite movie demonstrating how a black marker line can cover sloppy edges in paintings and bring back all the details into focus.

Black Marker from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital Extension: Triptych

Since students were randomly given their color pallet for their portrait, this digital extension will give them a chance to see what their portrait would have looked like in a different color. They will use the brushes app on the iPad to shift the hue twice. Then they will put the original and two new versions together in Pic Collage as a triptych.
I've taught this before in the old iOS using an old app that is no longer supported. So, I reconfigured the lesson a bit. View the old post here.

Brushes Redux is a free drawing app. The students will import the digital picture of their portrait into the app and use the hue and saturation tool to shift the color.

They will make a color choice by moving the HUE slider, save it the camera roll, then make another color choice. This will give them the three images needed to make a triptych in Pic Collage.

Student will import their three portraits and choose the three side by side grid. They may have to adjust the placement and size of each portrait before they finalize their triptych.

Student results: go to gallery on Artsonia

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Dynamically Demonstrating Movement

2/7/2018

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5th graders will be dynamically demonstrating the concept of movement over their paintings about movement through the magic of stop motion animation and green screen. Here is the post about this lesson from when we first tried it. One big difference this time around is that we have 6 Dewey iPad stands (thanks to an ABC/25 grant) that gives us lift and stability.

Green Screen and Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Step One: Painting about Movement

Click here to view their gallery of finished art on Artsonia.
You can download this lesson (step by step ppt) from TPT here.

Adding line and shape patterns with permapaque markers to our #movement/figure paintings
See our #fugleflick about pattern called REPEAT: https://t.co/3m3LKF7jLN #artsed #k12artchat #mustmakemon pic.twitter.com/TdcaPdXI3M
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) January 30, 2018

Step Two: Green Screen Stop Motion

I put together a guide for setting up this lesson and a step by step powerpoint for creating the figure painting here:
Download the green screen stop motion lesson from TpT here.
You can also download the figure drawing painting ppt lesson from TpT here.

Big fun in store for my 5th graders#stopmotion #animation with #GreenScreen
They will layer their movement videos into their movement paintings #d25ItsPersonal #drydenrocks #steam @DoInkTweets #edtech #artsed #k12artchat #makered #makerspace pic.twitter.com/39WWtGW1Zs
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018

5th graders working collaboratively on their #greenscreen #stopmotion #animations Dynamically demonstrating movement. It will be layered with @DoInkTweets app over their #art #steam #edtech #artsed #k12artchar #makered #makerspace #drydenrocks #d25ItsPersonal pic.twitter.com/xz1qUCdzZv
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018

Step Three: Layer image and video

HINT: Here is what it looked like in 2014 when the 4th graders gave this a try.

Student Results: 2018 5th graders

5-1 Movement Over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-2 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-3 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-4 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Family-ISH Reading Night

2/2/2018

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Last night was our annual Family Reading Night at Dryden. Families that stopped in the art room had a chance to hear the story of ISH by Peter H. Reynolds.

We also picked ISH-spiration words and drew them on our sheet ISHly.

See some photos from the event and the movie I made from the book below.

Teachers: Download my ISH creativity activity here.

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Black History Lego Mural (round 2)

1/1/2018

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In 2014 my students collaboratively built a lego mural out of a series of portraits in honor of Black History Month. I have apost about it here. I even put a post together explaining how I organized it and created the resources here.

Dryden's Black History Lego Mural 2014

I have a plan to try another Black History Lego Mural again this year. I really like the format I created where each portrait fits on 6 base plates. This mean I can have an entire class work on one portrait (one part per table). They can see how their small group collaboration feeds into a all class collaboration as the base plates are finished and pieced together. The lesson is not about creativity since they just follow a printed 1:1 scale guide, however it does require patience, collaborative strategies, counting, reading a grid, accuracy, and some problem-solving when lego pieces/sizes become scarce.

New Plan: Emphasizes History

The first time I designed the lego wall project I was scrambling, guessing, and making quick decisions to fit my time constraints. Now that I know that we have enough legos, and what my students capable of (2nd-5th graders do this lesson well) I am going to try to make sure the HISTORY part is emphasized as much as the art making. This new plan will include abolitionists, civil rights activists, a mathematician, and a scientist. Students will watch a video biography for each of the 6 figures from black history to learn more about their contributions and the challenges they faced in their lives.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Brain Pop Video

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Brain pop video

ROSA PARKS
Brain pop jr video

KATHERINE JOHNSON
YouTube video

HARRIET TUBMAN
Brain Pop Jr Video

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
Brain Pop Jr video
Brain Pop video

Resources: Download from TpT

I packaged the resources for two of the murals above. You can download them with instructions, examples, and printable lego guide sheets. MLKJr and Harriet Tubman

Artist Examples:

Students Working

Results

Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist

Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist

George Washington Carver, Agricultural Scientist

Katherine Johnson, Mathematician

Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist

Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist

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1st Grade Lima Bean Monsters

10/4/2017

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In progress:

Students drew their Lima Bean monster on paper, traced it with black marker in the photos below. Next they will try to paint with color balance neatly and completely.

Our Inspirations:

Students were inspired by the story, Lima Bean Monster by Dan Yaccarino.

We also enjoyed the song, Veggie Rock Song Fizzy's Lunch Lab on PBSkids.

Resources:

We used the handouts in our Lima Bean Monster Packet to get ideas for Eyes, Noses, Mouths, expressive eyebrows, and teeth. Students each made their own choices and drew as big and expressively as possible. I also printed out these examples for each student.

This sheet can be posted alongside their artwork or on the back.

Results: Finished paintings on Artsonia

Jumping (Lima) Beans

Digital Extension:

First graders are posing with their favorite vegetable in front of green screen so they can become the body of their lima bean monster. These photos will be combined with their artwork to help make an EAT YOUR VEGGIES poster.

EAT YOUR VEGGIES POSTERS

First graders had their first iPad creation experience this year by combining their lima bean monster (with body) and a background with text. They downloaded the files from dropbox, imported them into the superimpose app, resized and placed their figure, added a drop shadow, saved, uploaded the finished graphic design to the correct folder in dropbox and renamed it. (whew!)