ART CANOE

During the month of September, I had a photography exhibit at the Schaumburg Central Library. This is the second largest library in the state of Illinois. The landscape photos depict the desolate, winter Chicago lakefront, Cook County forest preserves and the Maine coast. Other photos depict my classroom and my Chicagoland jaunts. I will have another exhibit at the Prairie Center for the Arts (Schaumburg) in January 2016. Enjoy the exhibit video!

Students are working on adding impasto or thick brush strokes to their still life paintings. They observed a live paint demo and a video demo(below) as well. They also filled out a midpoint rubric reflection based on 4 different painting criteria.

4th graders are working with bug and human scale relationships in their bug's life drawings. 5th graders are finishing their own interpretation of Pop art shoes.  The artwork produced during the last few weeks reveals the incredible individual creativity of each student!

The students are finishing their Pop art projects. As an extension activity, students can opt to create an animation with their painting using either the Doink green screen app, iStopmotion on the iPad, Chrome Stop Motion Animator, and Chrome Wevideo for final editting with sound track, sound effects, transitions, and titles.

After learning how to do wash, wet into wet, dry brush watercolor techniques, students are combining these techniques on professional watercolor paper to create landscapes.

Google Classroom has been a great place to share project resources including pictures, tutorials, and liknk. Last week, while I was on the Middle school Outdoor Ed trip, students could access the sub plan complete with videos and questions. This week drawing tutorials are available as the students are beginning their gecko/owl canvas paintings. >

I shared this video with the 8th Grade today to demonstrate the integral nature of drawing, innovation, and technology

Meet the Teacher Handout

 Welcome to the Hoffmann Advisory Fall 2015 Check out the advisory tab to check on other activities and past happenings During advisory, the students are working on writing goal setting. As a part goal setting, students are developing action plans to help achieve their goals. This can involve broad steps such as getting up earlier/eat breakfast to more specific such as make appointment with Mrs. K to discuss knights program. Some articles are posted below that will guide the discussions and action plans.

Students are looking at  links and watching a variety of videos to learn about the art and life of Winslow Homer. Check out the Google Cultural Institute slideshow about Homer:  http://tinyurl.com/p2gcuaz This is a short PBS documentary  and video about Homer's paintings and Maine studio: http://video.mountainlake.org/video/2284722362/ and this Khan Academy video.

     After discussing Pop Art and Andy Warhol, students are creating their own pop art enlarged shoe paintings or using old shoes to make pop sculptures!

Use a Qr reader to see the hand out: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9fZpZZ9oF9OZkMtMjJSX2Nadnc

Since the 4th and 5th grade classrooms will be using Google Classroom, the students  are also going to use a Google Classroom page for the art class. This will be an awesome space for the student to access docs, pictures, links, assignments, and project examples. The Google Classroom screen shot below displays an uploaded photo of Pop art shoe projects.

Students are working on adding shading and value to the 1st drawing of their series. They changing an object into another object by creating a series of 4-6 drawings. The drawings pictured here are from today's class.

Students are working on scale relationships in their drawings. They must think about the scale of a bug's world in relation to a human world.

7th Grade Art Students worked with viewfinders to strengthen their still life compositions.