Lessons
My Teaching Philosophy
Progressivism. I believe in the core and traditional ways of working with media. Such as painting and drawing. Every major art program requires core classes like drawing, design, art history. I also believe these topics can be blended together and taught with new technologies.
My influence for teaching would simply have to be the power to inspire people. Think about it like it’s an equation with each class you may have thirty students, multiply that with the amount of classes you have in a day and times that by a year. We end up teaching to a lot of people. Some lives we may touch and influence, some we may not. I teach art to feed my hunger of being creative and whatever job I have being creative will always be a part of it. I also want to inform students with real life skills and possibilities that I was not given in school. The phase “I wish I knew then what I know now” rings true here. Knowledge is power. It’s sad to think about it this way, but think about it as if you were a product. The more skills you have and the more things you can do it does make you more valuable in the work field.
| Stop Motion | |
| Students will work in groups to create original animations using the technique of stop motion. The students will be responsible for creating the characters, sets, and props, out of construction paper. They also will render storyboards prior to shooting |  |
| Hidden Objects | |
| Students will draw and color an environment in which they will place certain objects to be found. The students will then create a look for list to accompany their work while it is being displayed. |  |
| CD Dust Jacket Design | |
Students will create a usable CD dust jacket and explore graphic design. |
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| 8-bit Abstraction | |
| Students will use Microsoft paint to create their 8-bit artwork. They will do this by using the paintbrush tool set to square. They will recreate their idea they crated on the graph paper. |  |
| Stamp Patterns | |
| Students will use the stamps to create patterns on their paper.For example let’s say they have a star, circle, and a square stamp. They stamp in a line circle, circle, star, and a square the next step in this pattern would be a circle. (SIMON) |  |
| Kicker Shoes | |
Kicker shoe industries are having trouble selling shoes in today’s poor economy and are looking for some new designs. Students will create new shoe designs. |
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| Recycled Masks | |
| Students will create an original mask out of recycled materials and found objects. While also trying to incorporate items that will reflect their identities. |  |
| Relief Printing | |
| Students will develop a series of relief prints, which will display a portrait of a celebrity. They will explore positive and negative space and will include various mark making techniques with the gouge tool |  |
