Book Advertisment Posters

7th graders learned about different print advertising techniques in both English and Art this quarter. Some of those techniques included Emotional, Problem/Solution and Testimonial. Since it is "I Love to Read" month, students were asked to make an advertisement for a book that they have read. We "greened-screened" ourselves into the book cover to create a poster that hopefully attracts some new readers! We also added a zentangle drawing for a splash of pattern.

Google 4 Doodle!

Here is the Matrix Minute video for Youth Art Month. Watch it, get inspired and doodle for Google!

Artist Trading Card- Artists and Mediums #1

Today we began the first part of a series of lessons designed around artist trading cards or ATCs. We are planning to trade these cards either with our Art Collaborative group of Annandale Middle School and North Jr. High or with a swapbot.com trade. Students will be making a total of at LEAST 3 cards during the sessions. These cards will highlight the work of a well-known artist.

In our first lesson we focused on the artists of Kandinsky, Ringgold, Murray and Van Gogh. Our medium choices for creating the cards were colored Sharpie, fabric and thread, "impasto" of 3D fabric paint and Scratch-Art cards. Students must also highlight one element and one principle of art in their cards. The slides below were reviewed in class.

Block 3- Your Edmodo response

Artist Playing Cards – Response Using Edmodo

Grammar Requirements

1.     Complete Sentences; including capitalization and punctuation

2.     No text talk; spell out all words

Format Requirements

1.     Begin with the first name and initial of the last name of the student along with the school they are from

2.     Describe three things you think the student would like to do based on the word they chose to put on their card.

3.     Ask one question about how the student constructed the card.

Options: materials used/decisions about order of images/ size of objects

4.     Comment on the general impression you have of this student based on their card

a.    What kind of person do you think they are?

b.    Comment on one part of the design they used to create a positive critique.

Example:

Jessica E. from Annandale,

            Today I got the card you made; I like what you created. Based on the word “journey” I think you might like to go on vacations. Journey might mean you have had some tough things in life, and your journey has been interesting. The word might also mean that you are looking forward to taking a journey sometime soon. Which material did you liked to work with most since you have both paint and pictures cut out of a magazine?

            You seem to like things neat and tidy since many of your lines are clean and straight, you also have a lot of balance on your card and things are equally spaced. Well done. I am looking forward to meeting you at the Weisman in March.

Zentangles for Ad Project- check here 7th graders!

7th graders- Directions for day ONE

Day One

Advertising Poster Project- Using Pages and Preview

Getting your green screen photos into a Pages document:

1.     Find your green screen photos on the Mrs. Hare’s flickr site. Check the blog for the link.

2.     Click on the photo to see a larger version of it.

3.     Apple-Shift-3 to take a screen shot of your photo.

4.     Find it on the desktop. Double click to open it. It will open in Preview.

5.     Crop the photo using cursor to select what you want. Then Tools- Crop to remove the excess photo.

6.     In the tool bar, choose Select then Instant Alpha to select and remove the green screen.

7.     Once you have all the excess background removed, choose Edit, Select All, Edit Copy.

8.     Next, open Pages (search under the magnifying glass). Choose page layout- blank document.

9.     Choose View, Zoom, Zoom Out until you see the whole page.

10.  Now Edit, Paste your photo in the document.

11. Repeat these steps for all green screen photos you want to use.

12. If your photos don’t move around well, choose Inspector, Wrap and Floating

Getting your book cover into your Pages document:

1.    Search Google for your book

2.    Choose the Images tab

3.    Choose large images under Size tab

4.    Click the image you want to use

5.    Right click to copy the image

6.    Go to your Pages document and paste in

7.    If the book image goes in front of your green screen photos then choose Arrange, Send to Back

8.    SAVE- name it your group members first names, save on the desktop

7th grade Flickr site- click here for photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckermiddleart/

and more here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/morebeckermiddleart/

Advertising Poster Project- Slides for review

Here are the slides we went over in class.

7th graders- More "tangle" ideas

Zentangle link- 7th graders check here!

Click HERE for Zentangle idea starters...

This is a link to a Pinterest board. It will not show up at school. You'll have to access this at home. 

Wowza! Roadside Birds are finally coming to an end!

Lots of work went into this project...almost 9 class days! One of the longest projects we've done at BMS (Mrs. Hare's attention span isn't that long).

We began with drawing realistic birds found in MN road ditches (see other posts here and  here). Watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and salt were then added to create texture and detail to the bird's feathers. We also outlined with Sharpie to create more depth and detail within the birds. The next step was creating the bird's habitat from a collage background of construction paper and printed images of native MN grasses and flowers. We made the printed images from cut cork printing plates, brayers and block ink.

Five of these works will be submitting to the MN department of Natural Resource's "Roadsides are for the Birds" poster contest. Check out the link here for more information.

Rogers MS collaboration project

"Roadsides Are For The Birds" posters are coming along!

We are wrapping up gouging and started to print on our backgrounds today. We can't wait to get everything glued together!