Whoops...It got a little busy...

So summer is for playing catch up... and for an introduction to my plans for next year.

HOLD UP... I am getting ahead of myself though. I have 7 month of really cool art projects to show y'all first.

So... where do I even start?!?! These projects are going to be in no particular order...

I will start with one of my favs... Visual Journaling!!

 

The 5 photos above are from my own personal journal. I love the process of collecting, cutting, combining all different mediums and ideas to formulate a new piece of art work. Here lies my artistic passion. The sky is the limit with visual journaling...

My Upper School class blew me away with their journals this past trimester. Here are a few of the highlights...

What vision these girls have! (Yes, I had a class of all young ladies! Lucky me.)

student journals...

So I tried out the visual journals in my pinhole photography class. The kids were like "what does this have to do photography?..."

Well kids, photography is an art, learning about principles and elements of art can only help your build your artistic knowledge, mixing up the medium is always a good idea, all the assignments are relating to photography... plus I said so. HA!

They had a total of 4 assignments and were given about 2 weeks for each. I only gave them one 55 minute class a week to work on them. They had specific assignments that they had to complete. Some  included things like:

1 page: 

Research the photographer Man Ray

Include a page dedicated to the photographer Man Ray. You must include photos of his work. What is Man Ray mostly known for? What do you like? What do you dislike? Why? 

2 page:

Going through the magazines in my room, or your own, find an advertisement you find to be compelling.

·       Tell me what you like about this advertisement.

·       What works for it?

·       How is it selling the product well?

What is different about this advertisement?  

1 page:
Almost, if not everyone, had the word emotion in their definition of ART. For this page I would like you to create a piece of ‘art’ bases on emotion(s).  

1 page:

Doodle, doodle, and more doodles…

Please do not doodle in other subject classes. This is reserved for photo class, home, flex, and other down time. 


1page:
Why create a journal? What is the purpose (other then JR’s trying to torture you)? What can be gained from journaling? Do you hate this? Why? Do you like this? Why? What can make you love this project?

I showed them different ways of manipulating the pages and ideas for backgrounds. We looked at examples and I sometimes worked along side with them. 

Like with anything, some kids loved it and other were not so fond of this project. I would love to teach an all journaling class. 


Here is what the kids did...

 I love this because you can begin to see the students styles... None is right or wrong just unique. Even students who don't like to draw or think they suck at art can make a journal interesting by being themselves!

visual journals....

Now this is something I started doing a couple of summers ago and I love it. Reusing an old book to create a visual journal.

Visual journals combined every type of medium imaginable... Plus whatever info you want! This journal I started for my professional development this year...

Here are some of my pages so far...

I think this is a great project opportunity for high school students. It gives them a chance to express themselves while completing written art assignments.

Happy journaling!