Tricia Fuglestad's Blog - Dryden Art

Packaging Up My Lessons

9/1/2021

Here is me (above) with my mind exploding! I have hundreds of lessons that I've created from scratch over my decades of teaching. Teachers have been asking me how I do this or that for years. The answers are scattered around on my blog, social media, and in my presentations. It's time to package up my lessons and share them completely and neatly. Please fill out this quick form (or the button below) if you want to be kept posted.

Clay Fish

4/15/2021

Follow these steps to turn your 1 oz packet of Model Magic clay into a swimming fish.

Lip-Sync Stop-Motion Animation Guide

3/21/2021

I created a resource and tutorial for making a simple lip sync stop motion animation based on a drawn portrait with young students.

Emotional Robot Color Wheel Posters

1/24/2021

I turned my Emotional Robots showing a full range of feelings into a poster set for display in the classroom as a mood meter and a color wheel combined. They also are set up with augmented reality so the robots can express themselves even more through animation using the free AR app, Eyejack. The six poster set is available on TpT here.

Monochromatic Self-Portrait Triptychs

10/11/2019

4th graders are working on drawing their self-portrait in a 3/4 pose, tracing it three times into a triptych, then using monochromatic palettes with tints & shades to paint.

Robot Paintings with Augmented Reality

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).

Abstract Cats inspired by Laurel Burch

5/20/2018

Examples of Laurel Burch's Art

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 or 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.

Corduroy Paintings

5/14/2018

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.

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

4/6/2018

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.

Abstract Picasso Styled Relief Sculptures

2/17/2018

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