Funny you mention this; I'm starting a very similar lesson with my high school beginning art students tomorrow! We will divide a 16x16" sheet of tagboard into 8 sections (length, width and diagonals) and cut out 1/8 from white paper to draw a design onto. We then will use carbon paper to transfer the design to the other parts. Putting tape "hinges" down to flip and copy seems to work well. We will paint them with acrylic paint, also using the color schemes we just learned.
Today I reviewed color schemes by showing them ads, packages, department store bags and whatnot that I had collected which used color schemes (such as analagous, complimentary, triadic and monochromatic). I held them up one by one and tested them (they wrote the answers on a sheet of paper) then we reviewed... it went well and was pretty fun. I think students respond well to things like advertisements and packages. (Krispy Kreme box: complimentary, Minnesota Vikings: complimentary, Marshall Fields bag: monochromatic and analagous... I even found ads from old Life magazines (1959) when ads were a little simpler...Kellog's ad: primary and triadic and so on...)
Kristy
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From: Kara LiCausi [mailto:klicausi@northport.k12.ny.us]
Sent: Tue 9/30/2003 7:36 AM
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Subject: Mandalas vs Kaleidascopes
Last year I had 7th graders design Mandalas. I tried not to bring in the religious overtones...but instead had them create designs that were based around the cycles of nature. The designs had to be symmetrical in some way. After doing colored pencil drawing, we made them out of clay and painted them with tempera.
This year I did Kaleidascope designs where the kids made a single pie shape and repeated it 8 times around their cirlce. We colored with colored pencil paying close attention to color schemes and shading. These drawings were much more detailed than the Mandalas and we did not reproduce them in clay.
Both projects came out beautifully. I have lots of digital pictures of these...but have not yet learned how to add pictures to my schools website..there are pictures there from 2000! I would love to share these pictures with anybody who is interested...does anybody have any easy ideas of how I can post them?
Thanks!
Kara in Northport
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