Project 1 Description: We are going to demonstrate pastel drawings combined with paper collages of something meaningful to the students. This way we can all get to know each other well, start conversation about something they love, and do so through art. In today's learning experience students made pastel/marker drawings and collages and shared their drawings with the class Essential Understanding: Artist and designers make art that can reflect their background, interests, and ideas. Outcomes/Learning Target:
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Documentation of Learning This class was our first meeting with the students, which is why we chose an activity that would help the class get to know each other better. One student was a bit hesitant to get started on a pastel drawing of one of his favorite activities, which was bowling. We had a discussion about how it was good to ask questions in class because that is how you learned. I asked him if he was confident in asking questions in class and he said yes. I then asked if he thought he was confident in making a mark on paper to draw his bowling ball and he said yes and got started on his drawing. He was having difficulties remembering what shape the bowling pins were so we compared the shape of the bowling pins to the shape of a glue stick which gave him a visual reference to draw from. His confidence had greatly improved for the collage part of the lesson. He chose his pictured based on shapes and colors he found interesting. When he asked what to do with the white space I asked him what the most interesting part of his collage was for him and he said the shapes and then proceeded to fill in the white space with repetitive shapes. Bowling Collage We had planned the lesson to accommodate students who may not have liked the texture and messiness of pastels, as was the case with this student who drew pictures of her dogs. She preferred to draw with a black pencil and drew slowly and meticulously and would erase and redraw until her drawing looked perfect in her eyes. Another student chose a more abstract approach to represent a movie that was important to her, Alice in Wonderland. All of the students really enjoyed the brainstorming activity and built their drawings from their initial ideas. The student was focused on making her drawing look symmetrical. We placed no constraints on the style the students could use in their drawings and this made the variety of the work interesting to observe. Pencil dog drawing Alice in Wonderland Landscape It was exciting to watch the students transfer their "sketches" to their collages.
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