My suggestion of, “Your paint is too bright, try adding some white,” met with confused looks too many times in a row, and I realized that the difference between “light vs. dark” and “bright vs. dark” was not well understood by the students.Adding white paint will make something lighter, but it will also make it duller, especially in combination with black paint. […] http://dlvr.it/30Lq0l
The “real” mural will be done with paint in the pointillist style rather than tissue paper, and will be installed permanently in the school library. We decided to make the grid angled 45° in homage to the Big Emma piece by Chuck Close. Our reference photo is of a biome (naturally), and one that all of the students have experienced in person. […] http://dlvr.it/30Lbt6
The hardest part of this project is mixing paint colors accurately. One of the largest obstacles is that not everyone can see the same range of color. Some people are color blind in the classically understood sense, but some just have a limited range of color visibility. Throughout our time working on this project, many students have been able to identify specifically their own limitations when it comes to colors they can o […] http://dlvr.it/30Lbtt
As practice for our final mural, we embarked on a little tissue paper pointillist adventure. I found this picture of a rafter that seemed perfect for this attempt. […] http://dlvr.it/30LbrH
Well, pointillism, that’s what. One of this year’s projects focuses on the complexity and detail of a biome (yup, back to biomes and 6th graders again) through studying the whole-is-greater-than-the-parts aspect of pointillist art.One of the most well-known employers of the technique was Georges Seurat, artist of The Sunday Aft […] http://dlvr.it/30LNR0
Time to start creating the shadow boxes! And by “time to start” I of course mean that I’m just now posting this, 11 months later, so the shadow boxes have long been completed and those students aren’t even in 7th grade anymore, but anyway…Each student will be creating a shadow box to showcase elements of their chosen conflict. The boxes will be made of wood, about 3 inches deep, with a plexi-glass front. All parts of the box (id […] http://dlvr.it/30Kkp6
Playing once again with Google’s reverse image search and the visually similar image results. My photographs are on the left, images by others on the right. Click any image for its source. […] http://dlvr.it/2q3PWR
