Ancient Europe and Stained Glass Art

The final candidate lesson we learned was creating our own stained glass window art. We started off going over a powerpoint that discussed the history of stained glass windows. They had showed us many examples including their own. During the powerpoint we had to write down three facts on a notecard that would be apart of the project. We had discussed color schemes and how we would incorporate them into our projects. After we started making our projects, the teacher candidate had us take a sheet of construction paper and the image we wanted and stapled them together. We then took an exacto-knife and cut out the white parts of the image. Once we cut the different pieces of the stencil, we glued tissue paper to the back of the image. Then after all the tissue paper we cut the whole image out and wrote our name on the back.

An extension activity to go along with the holiday theme, the students would create their own stencils and make stained glass images. Students would draw a black and white image and cut out the negatives and do the same process as we did to create a holiday image. We would also go over a certain period of time of stained glass art, we would just go in depth.

Here is my example of the stain glass art. I used a cool color scheme and primary color scheme in order to meet part of the rubric.

Printmaking.

One of the lesson we did was on printmaking. We were given a sheet of paper to sketch out some ideas. The theme was nature so we had to make something with the weather or animals. I sketched out a winter setting with clouds and snowflakes and lines to symbolize a cool breeze. After we sketched out some ideas the teacher candidates showed us how to take our idea and put it on foam paper. They said to make sure you get the lines deep enough so that the ink doesn't get into the lines. One of the requirements was to make variations in the line quality. After we were done sketching in lines on our foam with a wooden tool, we took it to the roller station where we took a roller and took a little bit of ink and rolled it out the the roller was completely filled with ink. Then we rolled it onto our sketches so that the sheet was filled with the ink that was evenly spread out. Then we took our sketch and ink side down put onto the border we had made, which had to be the complimentary color to the ink we choose. We had to make sure to push down all over so the ink would transfer. Then we peeled the sketch we made up and saw the outcome.

An extension activity to printmaking, the students would create a holiday themed picture depending on what time of the season it is and it would be a present for their parents. Then they would write a short little story using their imagination to describe what their picture is depicting or write a story where their picture goes along with the story they made.

Here is my example of the printmaking project:

Cave Art

During one week, we created cave art paintings using our fingers. They gave us crumpled paper bags and the paint was made from mud mixed with powder tempura and water. We started out the lesson talking about memories and how they were recorded. Then we discussed how back in cave times that they didn't have cameras and that they drew pictures on the walls to remember moments in time. To create our cave paintings, we used our fingers to get the paint out of cups and applying it to the brown paper. One of the requirements of our work of art was to put some type of leaf or actual texture onto the picture. I used pine needles to make my person stand out more. They had asked us to make a drawing of a memory that we had and we had a notecard to explain what our memory was. Once our painting was finished, we had talked about how we created our paintings.

For an extension activity, the students would learn more about cave paintings and what the images really meant. Where cave people came up with the images they had created. Once we finished learning about the cave paintings and cave people, The students would look up to see what their favorite picture of the cave paintings were and redraw it to the best of their ability.

My favorite memory consisted of going to my cabin with my family and roasting marshmallows and gong swimming in the lake. Here is my depiction of a cave painting.

The lesson I presented with another teacher candidate consisted of using two different mediums which were crayons and oil pastels. We named our lesson 'Little Leaves' and it was partly based off a children's book we read called, "The Little Yellow Leaf." This story helped students to get into the mood of the changing seasons and what colors we notice during the seasons. The talked about what you see during the autumn season. The students learned what warm and cool colors were and how they would create the project using them. 

To start the project off, we showed them how to make crayon shavings using only warm colors. They put these shaving onto wax paper so that when they fold the wax paper together and put crayon shavings in between, we took an iron and melted it together. After, they traced three different leaves and placed them onto a small white sheet of paper and they created a collage form. The next step was to create five leaves using the oil pastels by only using cool colors. The main point of the project was to create a collage using the melted crayons and oil pastels. Also, they needed to understand what texture was because they had to create texture on their leaves that they created. Before they started creating the whole project they were asked to recall a fall memory and write it on a notecard and create a border using fall colors. The theme for our bulletin board was "Leaves Are Falling" and we placed the students projects in a random pattern across the board to symbolize the many leaves that fall off trees during the season.

An extension activity that we could do is focus on different color themes. For example, monochromatic and complimentary. They would make a project based on a color study of their choice. They could choose their favorite season and make a picture depicting that season. They would have to use only one medium of their choice.

Here is my example of my Little Leaves collage I had made. My fall memory consisted of being with my family on Thanksgiving and each time my grandma would make the most amazing food. The best part was spending time with my cousins.

Under Water World Scratch Art

One project that we created was scratch art that is black paper with a color coating underneath the black. We started the lesson by learning about the different techniques to create lines and then we were shown examples of different scratch art. To practice on our own we were given little bookmark shaped scratch paper to practice creating different lines and the thickness of lines. We used these lines by using a somewhat sharp wooden tool to scratch off the black paper.
Our lesson was an underwater theme and as a class we discussed different animals we would see underwater. When we started on the project, we were told to choose an animal that they had laid out and thats the animal we were make on our scratch art. I chose to draw a seahorse to create my picture and I made coral and bubbles and lines to symbolize water.
We first started to draw our picture on another half sheet of paper that we folded in half and would be used as our tracing sheet. We then put the black scratch art sheet in between the white folded sheet and traced the outline of the image with the wooden tool. Once the image was traced on the paper, we went back over onto the actual black scratch art to make each line thicker and more noticeable.

An extension activity that can go along with the underwater theme is a science lesson. Students would make different biomes and explain different habitats. They would tell what kind of animals lived there and what are major important details about the biome. This will allow them to learn more about different types of biomes.

Here is my example of scratch art, it is a seahorse.