Class 5 | Exploration of Scien

Paper Marbling - Day Two

Class #5

10-12-18

Project:

Paper Marbling - Students will finish up their sketches and Nebula Creator worksheets and get to work on their nebula creations. Students will be shown how to marble a piece of paper using shaving cream and food coloring. The students will create the background of their images this way, and once their artwork dries, they will be adding more specific elemts to their creations with markers, colored pencils, and other drawing materials.

Key Concepts:

Observation, exploration, language of art

Essential Understandings:

Artists and designers use artwork to communicate what they have seen.
Artists and designers observe and research things that may seem interesting as a source of inspiration.

Objectives/Learning:

Upon exploring and brainstorming using the play-sheet students will design their idea that reflects their playsheet in their sketchbook. (Bloom’s: Analyze/Standard: Reflect/GLE: Research and plan art and design to create meaning in personal works of art/Art Learning: Conceptual-ideation, expressive features and characteristics of art/Literacy: composition, shape, form, line, value)
After demonstration of the water marbling process students will be able to reflect their playsheets and sketches and be able to create a water marble using, shape, form, texture, color, and line . (Bloom’s: Create/Standard: Create/GLE: Utilize different media, processes, and studio skills to create works of art and design/Art Learning: Materials and techniques/Literacy & Numeracy: water marbling, texture)

Skills:

Interpretation, planning, following a procedure, creative problem solving

Art Focus:

In today's class period, students will be finishing up their initial ideas in their sketchbooks. Students will be then shown how to marble paper, and they will use this technique to create the beginning of their nebulas. Along with paper marbling, students will be adding various drawing elements in their artwork today.

Literary Focus:

Listed procedure for students to follow
Use to art language will be encouraged when appropriate

Daniel started our class by reflecting the blog with the students and seeing what students remembered from last week. Daniel asked the students if they remembered what nebula's were and one student even said "We'll they are a lot of stars and when a lot of stars are born, and all the colors are from how warm or cold it is." Then Daniel asked students if they had every hear of paper/water marbling and a few knew what it was and a few didnt, we then had all the students gather around Melissa to see how to do paper/water marbling.

Then we started the class by having Melissa demonstrate how to do paper marbling as the students gathered around a table to watch.

Attached here are some of the students in the creation process. While some students were working on the marbling part of this process other students were at a different creation station.

In these photos this is the other creation station. Students used foil, colored paper, and their nebula creator play sheet to create their additions. In the first image the student is seen sketching what he wants on his nebula before cutting it out and laying it on the paper. In the second photo this other student asked "is it okay to cut out shapes like a snowflake to create a new shape for my nebula?" We encouraged students to explore and create planets, stars, aliens whatever they wanted to do to make their nebula theirs. The third image is a student cutting out a creature to live in her nebula.

In this photo a student had expressed "I don't want to add paper on top of it but I want to add more to it" so we creative problem solved and found a different material to use and he was excited to use the water colors.