Lucian Freud
Women of Renown: Female Heroes and Villains in the Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Best of Ottawa Animation Festival & Daydream Nation: Swedish Animation at the Brattle
Ray Johnson: How to Draw a Bunny
Endicott Studio: Mythic Art
NASA
Earth Science Nasa for Kids and their archive
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Lesson: Printmaking
Personally, I am fascinated by Printmaking!
Recently I had experienced how printmaking could be done in a public school setting with relatively inexpensive materials.
It was such a fun experience that I would like to create a lesson based off this experience.
Women of Renown: Female Heroes and Villains in the Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Boston MFA
Wikipedia::Printmaking
Incredible Art Department::Printmaking
PBS::Japan Edo period Woodblock Printing
Recently I had experienced how printmaking could be done in a public school setting with relatively inexpensive materials.
It was such a fun experience that I would like to create a lesson based off this experience.
Women of Renown: Female Heroes and Villains in the Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Boston MFA
Wikipedia::Printmaking
Incredible Art Department::Printmaking
PBS::Japan Edo period Woodblock Printing
Lesson: Mask Making
Learning Objectives:
Examine the role of Masks in religion, society and identity
Examine the functions and messages expressed through symbols and metaphors
Discuss terms Art and Craft
Look at commercial products through function, message, craft
Compare role of commercial artist to that of particular artists
Goals alike and different
Design a work using their own symbols and metaphors
Create a Mask
Resources:
This lesson I want to create masks, while at the same time investigate how masks have been used in cultures as ways of expression. I particularly would like to look at Halloween as the contemporary use of masks, and perhaps other festivals such as Mardi Gras, All Souls Day...
I am not sure, but most likely this lesson will use papier mache as it's medium, since in a classroom setting this would be the easiest way to create the masks.
I'll have to investigate more on how I plan to do this... and will update this later with a more comprehensive lesson plan.
Masks Around the World
Thailand::Kohn Masks
African Masks
PBS Kids African Masks
Mongolian Masks
Interview with Julie Taymor re: Her use of Masks
ClassBrain.com Halloween History
Mythic Masks at Endicott Studios
Examine the role of Masks in religion, society and identity
Examine the functions and messages expressed through symbols and metaphors
Discuss terms Art and Craft
Look at commercial products through function, message, craft
Compare role of commercial artist to that of particular artists
Goals alike and different
Design a work using their own symbols and metaphors
Create a Mask
Resources:
This lesson I want to create masks, while at the same time investigate how masks have been used in cultures as ways of expression. I particularly would like to look at Halloween as the contemporary use of masks, and perhaps other festivals such as Mardi Gras, All Souls Day...
I am not sure, but most likely this lesson will use papier mache as it's medium, since in a classroom setting this would be the easiest way to create the masks.
I'll have to investigate more on how I plan to do this... and will update this later with a more comprehensive lesson plan.
Masks Around the World
Thailand::Kohn Masks
African Masks
PBS Kids African Masks
Mongolian Masks
Interview with Julie Taymor re: Her use of Masks
ClassBrain.com Halloween History
Mythic Masks at Endicott Studios
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Lesson : Visual Storytelling
Grade 7
Learning Objectives:
Students will examine the relationship between language and image
Students will look at various writing systems looking at the symbols that create language, particularly hieroglyphics, and kanji
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
Students will look at the development of technology in communicating ideas
The Language of Art : Art communicating mythology and history
Our early picture books and documentaries:
rock painting in Africa and Australia
wall paintings and relief in Egypt
our relationship with contemporary art and graphic media
Exemplars: Benjamin Franklin and the first political cartoon
comic books, and manga
Printmaking:
Development of printing as a visual medium: wood engravings and etchings
Japanese prints --> Mary Cassatt
Kathe Kollwitz
Wood print (engravings in magazines), lithography
growth of popular magazines, prints, and book illustration -->
the advent of color printing in magazines and books -->
impact of technology the printing press --> the camera obscura
Estimated time: Flexible
Materials:
Pen & Ink
Watercolor
Photoshop
InDesign
Standards : Massachusetts Standards for Arts Education and Technology Integration
The Arts Disciplines
2.7, 2.8, 2.9 Elements and Principles of Design
4.4, 4.5 Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting
5.6 Critical Response
6 Purposes and Meanings in the Arts
7 Roles of Artists in Communities
9 Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts
10 Interdisciplinary Connections
Classroom Activities:
I. Walk like an Egyptian
Hieroglyphics: the alphabet, the rosetta stone
slides of Reliefs, Pyramids
Write like an Egyptian: Say my Name, Say my Name
II. The Hero's Journey through Myth
In Pairs they research and choose a story from myth they would like to illustrate
Egypt, Greece, Roman, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Celtic, Cherokee, Pueblo/Navaho, Aztec, Mayan, Australian, African (index cards)
III. the Printing Press!
Roots of Mass Media
printing press --> internet
Photoshop the Mythology Illustrations
IV. Zine it!
History of Comics, Comic Books & Manga
1st comic strip: Ben Franklin Revolutionary Snake Political Cartoon
Examining Political and Social Contexts
Prominent Comics
Students Bring in their Favorite Comic
potentially: storyboard, illustrate, inDesign
Research:
Understanding Comics by Scott McLoud
Will Eisner's Guide to Sequential Art
Japanese Manga History
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/manga.shtml
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art26811.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga
http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/history.html
Political Cartoons : Ben Franklin
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/comics.htm
http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/exchange/cartoons_wb.pdf
“Join, or Die,” cartoon in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin, Library Company of Philadelphia
http://www.benfranklin300.com/_imgBank_resources/13_med.jpg
Join or Die Cartoon Essay
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1091369
http://www.benfranklin300.com/imagebank_13_detail.htm
Learning Objectives:
Students will examine the relationship between language and image
Students will look at various writing systems looking at the symbols that create language, particularly hieroglyphics, and kanji
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
Students will look at the development of technology in communicating ideas
The Language of Art : Art communicating mythology and history
Our early picture books and documentaries:
rock painting in Africa and Australia
wall paintings and relief in Egypt
our relationship with contemporary art and graphic media
Exemplars: Benjamin Franklin and the first political cartoon
comic books, and manga
Printmaking:
Development of printing as a visual medium: wood engravings and etchings
Japanese prints --> Mary Cassatt
Kathe Kollwitz
Wood print (engravings in magazines), lithography
growth of popular magazines, prints, and book illustration -->
the advent of color printing in magazines and books -->
impact of technology the printing press --> the camera obscura
Estimated time: Flexible
Materials:
Pen & Ink
Watercolor
Photoshop
InDesign
Standards : Massachusetts Standards for Arts Education and Technology Integration
The Arts Disciplines
2.7, 2.8, 2.9 Elements and Principles of Design
4.4, 4.5 Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting
5.6 Critical Response
6 Purposes and Meanings in the Arts
7 Roles of Artists in Communities
9 Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts
10 Interdisciplinary Connections
Classroom Activities:
I. Walk like an Egyptian
Hieroglyphics: the alphabet, the rosetta stone
slides of Reliefs, Pyramids
Write like an Egyptian: Say my Name, Say my Name
II. The Hero's Journey through Myth
In Pairs they research and choose a story from myth they would like to illustrate
Egypt, Greece, Roman, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Celtic, Cherokee, Pueblo/Navaho, Aztec, Mayan, Australian, African (index cards)
III. the Printing Press!
Roots of Mass Media
printing press --> internet
Photoshop the Mythology Illustrations
IV. Zine it!
History of Comics, Comic Books & Manga
1st comic strip: Ben Franklin Revolutionary Snake Political Cartoon
Examining Political and Social Contexts
Prominent Comics
Students Bring in their Favorite Comic
potentially: storyboard, illustrate, inDesign
Research:
Understanding Comics by Scott McLoud
Will Eisner's Guide to Sequential Art
Japanese Manga History
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/manga.shtml
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art26811.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga
http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/history.html
Political Cartoons : Ben Franklin
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/comics.htm
http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/exchange/cartoons_wb.pdf
“Join, or Die,” cartoon in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin, Library Company of Philadelphia
http://www.benfranklin300.com/_imgBank_resources/13_med.jpg
Join or Die Cartoon Essay
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1091369
http://www.benfranklin300.com/imagebank_13_detail.htm
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Artist's Bibliography
The following is a Bibliography I had created earlier in my self discovery as an artist:
Current mood: 
artistic
The Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron
If You Want to Write by Barbara Ueland
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Illusions by Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing & life by Anne Lamott
The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Calvin & Hobbes 10th Anniversary by Bill Watterson
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