Oil Pastel Abstract Profile

For this lesson we got to draw profiles. We first practiced drawing a partners profile without looking at the paper and seeing what we were doing. We did this to imagine what we were doing rather than looking and thinking about it too much. We then looked at Picasso's paintings and talked about abstract characteristics. So in my painting I had a picture with half girl half man. I used the bright colors, jagged lines, and jagged lines. 

An extension activity of this art project could be doing a short description essay of their drawing for a Language Arts assignment. The students will need to describe their oil pastel drawing very throughly. I want the students to describe it to where someone who was reading the essay could imagine the picture in their mind. 

Dream House

For this art lesson we got to draw our dream house! This project was fun and creative. We got to imagine our dream house at the beginning of the lesson in a visualization exercise. It was cool how she made us think about it and really visualize our dream house. 

An extension activity could be the students would have to measure the angles of the house and all the corners. They would be learning about angles in math. Once they measured the angles the students would then be able to define what type of angle it was acute, obtuse, and right angles. 

Upside Down Drawing

When you first look at this picture it looks like its just a bunch of scribbles on a picture. However there is way more to it than just that. For this project we had to make red film glasses in order for our image to work. We started out by drawing an image of a jungle animal in light blue colored pencil. Then over the top we put warm colors in patterns all over the page, to disguise the image. Then when you were all done you could put your glasses on and look at your image and see the animal you drew. It will come through all the warm colors that you put over top of it. 

This project was so awesome! I have never done anything like this before. It was interesting to see how it actually worked. An extension activity of this could be the students would then have to write a paper on the animal they chose to draw. Then put the paper next to their displayed art work so when it is hanging up students can read about the animal that they are looking for.