Cyanotype Prints - Day Three & Paper Marbling - Day One
Class #4
10-05-18
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Project:
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Cyanotype Printing - This is the final day for this project; students will be working in small groups and looking at each others' work. Students will be experiencing a 'Gallery Walk' style critique to reflect upon their own artwork along with their peers' work.
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Paper Marbling - After the discussion about the previous project concludes, students will be starting a new project. Students will begin to form ideas on creating a nebula through paper marbling. Students will be shown some images of nebulae and a short video about these space objects. In their sketchbooks, students will start the planning and creating process.
Key Concepts:
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Observation, reflection, research, exploration, language of art
Essential Understandings:
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Artists and designers reflect on their work once it is completed.
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Artists and designers observe and research things that may seem interesting to them.
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Objectives/Learning:
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Using completed artwork, students will be able to identify and share specific elements of their peers’ artwork that interest/excite them using art vocabulary. (Bloom’s: Evaluate and apply/Standard: Transfer/GLE: Using interdisciplinary knowledge, investigate and discuss how diverse communities address issues relevant to their culture, place, and times/Art Learning: Assessment-evaluation/Literacy: discussion, art language)
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Using completed artwork, students will be able to write a short reflection clearly describing the process of cyanotype printing in terms simple enough a younger student would be able to understand. (Bloom’s: Create/Standard: Reflect/GLE: Evaluate personal and peer work using the language of visual art and design/Art Learning: Critical reflection-transfer/Literacy: written reflection)
Skills:
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Reflection, interpretation, planning
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Art Focus:
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In the first half of the class period, students will be critiquing their artwork along with their peers'. Also in the reflection process, students will be given the opportunity to reflect on the creation of their artwork by drawing a sketch.
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In the second half of the class period, students will begin formulating ideas in their sketchbook journals for the upcoming Nebula Paper Marbling activity.
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Literary Focus:
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Critique focusing on the use of art language and written reflections.
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Nebulae, and abstraction will be defined to students.
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In the beginning Daniel went over the blog and what we noticed from last week. We talked about the process we did last week and had students lead the conversation. Students talked about the process and said " we put a special chemical on the paper, put our found objects on it, put it out in the sun, then when we went inside it all washed off!" The washed off comment really got a lot of students talking and Daniel explained that sometimes that is a part of the artistic process and things don't always go according to plan. Daniel then got a show of hands for if we had time would they like to try Cyanotypes again, all but one student raised their hands.
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Then we split the class into to and Daniel and I both took two groups to do a mini critique. Here is a student explaining her process this is what she said "I laid the leaves on then I put the pexi glass on top and put it outside, it almost all washed off. I like that I can still see some leaves though."
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Here is that same students reflection in her sketchbook:
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The other group had a different way of describing the Cyanotype project instead of writing the steps then how it made you feel they really seemed to write the emotions they felt for their final results. Melissa had all her students share in their small critique group and the feelings were very mutual "I worked really hard and it all washed away"
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When we were done sharing we got back together as one big group where the students asked "can we share our drawings and what we wrote?" Through the sharing we learned that a lot of feelings about being sad that it washed off were mutual and that the student look forward to trying this again!
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After that we started talking about Nebulae Melissa showed different pictures of nebulae and tried to get students thinking what is a nebula and what could it possibly be made of. Students had a lot of predictions of "stars exploding" or "lots of planets"
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Students the started watching a video about the colors in a nebula, how they are formed, and what they are. While watching the vide students were given a play-sheet called Nebula Creator, they were given this during the video because we wanted them to be able to write down ideas while they were still fresh in their minds.
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After working on the play-sheet students were encouraged to draw an idea of what their nebula could really look like. On the left she explained " I want my nebula to be shaped like animals." on the right another student said " I like blue and purple and I liked the way the nebula's can look like an explosion, so I want mine to be an explosion of blue and purple."
