Working Intuitively on Yupo Paper
Students learn to trust their instincts and work through their mistakes to create success. Students use layers to move them through the process, each layer informing the next. The students were given a song to use as inspiration for their painting by a classmate, and then utilized online resources to create visual mood boards to guide them through the process and make more informed decisions. Students gain a better
understanding of their own artistic style by following their intuition.
Graphite Collage Portraits
Following three weeks of smaller drawing and value
exercises students create a graphite, portrait drawing
using a collaged image as a reference picture.
Students create their own unique reference pictures
using the collage technique. Using the collage process
allows students to have a better understanding of
composition and balance.
Art as Activism Comic Strips Lesson
In this lesson, students age 9-12 acted as Art Activists and answered the question “What is something you want the world to understand?” The students used that topic to create a 3-6 panel comic strip using characters, comedy, and dialogue to make a statement. We also discussed as a class how comics can be an effective tool for making a statement and inspiring social change as the format is quick and easy to read, and therefore accessible to many audiences.
Community Tree Mural Lesson
In this lesson, students ages 9-12 worked together as a class to create a digital mural that represents the community identity of our Wildcat Art youth class. They used the watercolor technique “wet-on-dry” to create designs on cut-out leaves that represent the identity of our class community. We then worked together to screenshot each student’s leaf or leaves and paste and compile them onto our digital community tree mural.
Fantasy Landscape Lesson
In this lesson students age 5-8 considered what elements they would want to include in their dream world. They had the opportunity to create their own fantasy landscapes depicting these elements through art-making techniques and processes such as cutting, collaging, and painting with acrylic paint. Their final projects depicting their fantasy worlds demonstrated these new techniques in addition to their understanding of foreground, middle-ground, and background, in a 3D standing piece
