Hi,
I have taught a lesson on elements of art and principles of design where
students make a book. Each page is devoted to one element or principle, and
they place 3 or 4 examples of each on the page. These can be cut out from
magazines or drawn themselves, although I prefer that they actually find
examples in magazines. They then have to bind the book in a creative way,
make a cover and back cover, etc. I have found it a simple project that
gives them the focus on these elements and principles. Plus, gives them a
chance to make a book, which kids love to do. Each page has to be labeled,
etc.
Mindy
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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> Subject: Re: art gallery ideas
> From: Jerry Vilenski <jvilenski@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:45:24 -0800 (PST)
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> When I was teaching, I taught in a variety of schools with an equal
> variety of display challenges. I devised a system that used both the walls
> and the ceilings that made for unique and effective displays. Because I
> taught elementary school art, I decided to display the flat work on
> colorful display board. Each piece should be mounted on its own background
> that has enough room around the work to place a name tag that doesn't
> intrude on the art work itself. If you have a large number of small
> pieces, such as linoleum prints, you could display them on a large display
> board or colored matboard in a pleasing arrangement. This single board
> approach displays a large number of pieces on one board, allowing for
> thematic displays, and allows you the latitude to hang it on the walls
> wherever you have the room. In addition, I found that I quickly ran out
> of wall space for all-school shows, so I went up by hanging work from the
> ceilings. I got the idea from
> watching a department store clerk hang display boards from the ceiling. I
> installed a number of ceiling hooks on the grid of the suspended ceiling
> at random locations. Next, I purchased a number of display hooks, which
> are wire hangers that come in a variety of lengths. I then mounted the
> artwork on a 16x20 fomecore board, artwork on both sides, and hung each
> piece from the ceiling hooks. This provides a unique view of the artwork
> from both directions of the hallway, as well as providing a lot of display
> space that no one thinks about. This sounds more elaborate than it really
> is, and after doing a show this way, you will find ways of streamlining
> the whole operation. For instance, standarizing sizes helps a lot.
> Mounting on fomecore allows you to reuse the fomeboard year after year, so
> it is a modest investment that does duty for a long time. When it finally
> wears out, cut it up for sculpture! If you are lucky, get fomecore and
> matboard for
> free by asking frameshops for donations. They frequently throw out scraps
> that are perfectly usable by an industrious art teacher. I was recently
> given a pickup truck load of metallic and heavy colored display boards
> from a frame shop that was going out of business. I've been retired for
> two years, but my replacement just recieved a truckload of mat boards!
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> The company I purchased the ceiling display hooks and hardware from was
> USI. Good luck!
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> Subject: elements of art and principles of design
> From: "Chantal Pinnow" <cpinnow@yisseoul.org>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:51:49 +0900
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> I teach different art classes (drawing, painting, art history etc) to
> 6-8th
> graders. Each class lasts a quarter long. The students rotate into a
> different elective (art or some other elective) each quarter. I really
> would like to cover the elements of art and principles of design more
> directly in each class, but because we only have 9 weeks together, I want
> to
> be able to cover it rather quickly so that they know what they are and can
> apply them in the projects we cover during the course. I have a couple of
> good ideas for teaching it , but I would like some different methods of
> teaching it because I do see some students in different classes more than
> one time during the year (one student may choose to take the drawing
> class,
> painting class, art history, AND color theory so I would see them in four
> different quarter classes). I don't mind them hearing the same information
> more than once, but I would like to change up the activities and the way
> it
> is presented each time.
>
> Does anyone have some creative, interesting games, projects, or
> cooperative
> learning activities that teach the elements of art and principles of
> design
> (especially short lessons that could take only a few days cover)? Thanks!
> Chantal
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> Subject: Re: elements of art and principles of design
> From: "Nhora Lucia Serrano" <nserrano@csulb.edu>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:55:19 -0800
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> I will be out of the country until January 13th. I will respond to your
> email then.
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