Stencil Self-Portrait

Highlights: Find the lightest areas of an image and cut them out.

Spray or brush the light color in the highlight shapes.

Shadows: Find the darkest values in an image. It helped me to draw over them with a black marker.

Cut dark shadows out.

Line up your image with the first stencil color. Spray or brush through the stencil. 

Now you have an image with highlights, mid-tones, and shadows. I think my mid-tones are a bit dark here, so it's not as successful as it could be.

This is from a session I went to at the NAEA Convention in March called "Tag It" A Unit on Graffiti and Stencil Street Art by Deborah Huff. Nasco has published this lesson plan as well.

Collage

Falling Man

More fun with Photoshop.

NAEA San Diego Pre-Conference Workshop

   See the presenters' website: http://www.journalfodderjunkies.blogspot.com

Big theme ideas:

My notes and work from the day:

Mind Map:

Drawing from mind map. 

This is a symbology prompt drawing activity where you or students rank a circle, a square, a triangle, a cross, and a spiral as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then you create a design showing your preference. 

This was free writing about one of the big ideas with a water soluable writing implement. Then re-emphasizing certain words as shown on their slides above. 

Old Artwork

I have been cleaning and found this artwork I made in 2007. I like it enough to frame it. Maybe someday...

Quick Artwork2

All I have had time for lately is to throw a quick example together for my students. They're working on collages. Enjoy!

Quick Artwork1

All I have had time for lately is to throw a quick example together for my students. They're working on collages. Enjoy!

Art is Self Expression Through Symbolism

Art is...

I have been using bulletin boards as teaching tools so far this year...who knows if it is working. Here is my "Art is..." bulletin board, and my Media bulletin board, and my elements/principles of design bulletin board (which we are not through learning about yet.)






My camera stinks!

Line

Line Collages with the 6th grade.

Collage Drawing

This is my American Dream Collage drawing. My students are doing an amazing job with this assignment they just aren't as fast as I am :) It's not 100% finished, but close enough to post the photo of it.

Silk Screen Print #2

I guess this would have shown up better with black ink...you live, you learn.

American Dream: Silk Screen Print

It worked very well for 8-month-old emulsion! I will be printing it on different papers, and fabrics with various colors in the next week.

American Cathedral

Pessimism about the state of our country...