Scrap Booking
In this project we were asked to bring pictures or ads to class to put together in a scrap book. I picked pictures from my high school experience. I chose a track picture, me and my friend Megan, an athletic banquet picture with a bunch of friends from high school, and a picture of me and Kayla on a vacation, where we are para sailing. We were given the choice of backgrounds and different stickers to use in our project. This could also be used in a classroom as a family project, where the class would bring pictures of themselves with their families, and then write a paragraph based on how their family has affected their lives.

Pastel Landscapes

This was a lesson based on different 1 persons prospective on a landscape. We were given a choice of different landscapes and asked to take it and design one based on the one we chose but put into our own prospective. We used oil pastels to shade and blend colors to create our landscape. We first practiced shading a ball by using a light source and then started on our project. We also learned that using blacks make shades darker. This could also be used in a language arts lesson by having students write a poem or story about something that happened in their landscape.

The Four Seasons Window
The four seasons window were created to show the four seasons we celebrate. Summer, fall, winter and Spring. Each pane of the window represents a different season. We were to use watercolors, crayons/markers, and colored pencils to create our designs. For winter we also used cotton balls and glitter to represent glitter. In fall we used cut up colored paper to represent the falling and dying leaves. In spring we used red paper to represent the buds growing into apples when summer comes. And in summer we used red paint with an Q-tip to dot on the tree to be full grown apples. This could be used in a science class to teach why the leaves turn different colors in the different seasons.

Printmaking
In this lesson we were asked to create a lesson using a specific Holiday design. We were given 2 4x8 Styrofoam cut outs. We were also given a clay tool to indent our Styrofoam to make our design. We were then to go to the printmaking station where we used printmaking ink and a blank piece of paper to create our card. You took the blank piece of paper and put the already inked Styrofoam designed piece and used a brayer to press the ink onto the blank piece of paper. This could also be used to make book covers, or in your design for sketchbooks.

Garden Stepping Stones
These stepping stones were made by using cake pans or whip cream containers and cement. We were asked to bring a picture or to use a design using beads and pressing them into the cement. I chose a picture of me and two of my friends from high school. We were asked to use as much creativity as possible when creating our design and using our photos or beads. This lesson could also be integrated in math by counting out the beads for younger kids, or literature and writing a story about your stepping stone and how you grew up and what made you what you are today.

Line, Shape, Form and Space

For this project we were to create a downtown perspective using vanishing points. We first started by creating a landscape. We then found the light source. We used rulers and the light source to create buildings using the vanishing point. We also added windows and doors. This lesson could also be used in another art class when asked why buildings seem to get smaller the farther they are from you. You could have the kids write a little story for why they think it may seem to be smaller.

Creating A Comic Strip
This projects objective was to use shading to create a comic strip. We were given a 12 x 8 sheet of paper and asked to fold it equally into 6 spots. We were then asked to brainstorm a creative plot of events. I came up with a tiger who wants more spots who finally realizes he is beautiful just the way he is because his mother tells him so! This could also be used with specific objectives assigned such as safari animals and teaching a geography lesson based on where safari animals come from.

Sandpaper Art
This was a project in which Native American art was used. We were shown different designs and colors used in Native American art. We were then given a piece of sand paper and asked to use the whole piece of sand paper to color in our design using crayons. After we were done coloring in the sand paper we were given a blank white piece of paper the same size as the sand paper and asked to iron the white piece of paper onto the sand paper. This cased the crayon to melt and intern melt onto the white piece of paper causing two of the same pictures. This could also be used when teaching a science lesson when teaching heat and humidity. As well as integrating it into a literature lesson having students write about Native American Art

Me, Myself, and My Initials

This project was done by myself as well as Tanner. This project is used to show your personal and physical development by using geometric figures and your initials as an outline. In this project they first picked two pieces of colored paper and drew their initial design, they then cut their design out and traced it onto the uncut piece. They then choose a geometric design for their pictures. They cut out their pictures or ads by using their geometric figure in different sizes and glued them onto the uncut picture. They then glued the cut out piece onto the uncut piece. This project could also be used to make a family tree and brought into your English classrooms and have your students write about how their specific figure and appearance has changed as they grew from newborn to current age.

Clay Project

Our clay projects were used with air dry clay, where no kiln is needed to dry the clay. This allows for the use of acrylic paints. We were first asked to listen to a tape and make a pinch bowl. We had the choice if we wanted to keep and use the pinch bowl or make a different project. I chose to make something that represented myself as a person more. I chose to create a staff with notes and rests on it backed by my initials.

Lexicon Collages

These lexicon collages were a compilation of the work of four people. We were first given four pieces of paper with 4 words on them. We were then to write our own definition of the words and then create our own design based on what comes to mind with that particular word. We then had the choice to keep our favorite one and give the 3 others to a classmate, where they then intern did the same thing. This went on a total of 4 times with different methods, such as collage, scratching and removing, as well as painting.

Hesitate: Not going forward, Timid, shy
Leaving: Not staying, to move from one place to another
flowing: Moving smoothly
Timid: Not outgoing, shy

Sketchbook Projects
Scratch Art

The sketchbook projects were taken from one of our sketchbook projects. I decided to choose my second picture I drew. This is from the T.V show Glee. You first took and put your sketchbook picture over the scratch art piece of black and took your scratch pen and outlined your piece of paper so when you picked up the sketchbook page up the picture was imprinted onto the black. You then took the pen and scratched off the parts of the black that you wanted to show through.

Sketchbook
The sketchbook was made from scratch at the same time we made the Eric Carle collages. we first took a large piece of paper and painted our design that we chose. we then took two 1 in. thin pieces of paper to create the binding. We also sewed the binding into the 20-30 piece of paper that were used for our sketchbook pages. We then glued the first and last pages of the sketchbook pages to the front and back of our designed piece of cardboard paper.

Eric Carle Lesson

So Far this was one of my favorite projects. You can definately tell that the kids would like this assignment. Not just because its full of color, but they also have many choices to make from what colors to use all the way to which animal they would like to make. I would start by reading the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" with the kids. I would then ask the students to write a small paragraph or two of what they thought Eric Carle was trying to say in his book. I would also ask them to explain their favorite part of the book along with their favorite picture. After they were done with their discriptions I would ask the students to draw two things, a caterpillar and a butterfly. I would encorporate this into a physical science lesson as well as a language arts lesson. I would have the students show the stages of a butterfly by explaining the different stages of development in becoming a butterfly. This project would be done in upper elementary 4-6th grades, but can be done with just more than a physical science and language arts project. You could use it in your math classes by adding or subtracting the features on the butterfly or caterpillar.

Hidden Safari

The goals of the Hidden Safari assignment was to introduce the students to the warm and cool colors. To broaden the students understanding of what various African animals look like, and to show the students how to create patters with line, shape, and color. In my project I believe I did all of the above. The picture I chose was a animated tiger. When drawing this picture I used the upside down prospective. This is where you pick a picture and flip it upside down to draw from a new prospective. The picture was then outlined in blue colored pencil. After this was done you were asked to decide on what patter, lines and colors you would like to overlap your picture with. I chose boxes and sideways lines. The colors I picked were reds, yellows, purples, pinks, reds and oranges. We then made 3-D glasses out of red construction paper and red plastic. This makes the picture outlined in blue stand out when looking through the glasses. This is a great project for any grade level in elementary. You could incorporate this into your classroom in about any class from math-showing sizes of pictures as well as measurements, all the way to science- talking about the particular animal that was chosen and talking about enviroment, preditors, and location.

Starry Night Finger Painting

On an October night unlike most others in South dakota it started to snow. Yes you might say it's always cold in South Dakota, but snow in October! The sun was a beautiful full orange moon and the stars were out in full force, but the wind had a mind of its own. Now you might not think this is such a big deal because it is always blowing in South Dakota. But on this particular night when u looked up at the sky you saw something different, something more radiant. You saw the glistening snow turn yellow in the high sky from the glow of the full moon. It looked as if a plane had went out of control and made loops in the sky with the yellow snow. And this is the story of the Starry Night!

Elements and Principles of Design Compositions

My element and principle of design was line contrast. In my picture I took a plane white piece of paper and drew out the treble clef sign on the left hand side of the paper with black permanent marker. Then I got out my paints. I decided that I wanted to use many different colors to make my lines, and also so it was more appealing to the eye. After I got the colors the way I wanted them I painted them in vertical up and down lines in different lengths and widths until they filled the whole paper. After the paint dried I took a black oil pastel and outlines the whole piece. I believe that my project was successful. I don't know if the paint was as vibrant as I would like it to be, but that is the risk you take. I believe that the colored paint shows a very good contrast on the treble clef sign to make it pop out.

Footprint

I am Jordan M. Kjellsen, I graduated from Groton High School in 2006, and attend Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. My first art portfolio assignment was to trace my foot and decorate it with objects and designs that signifies my life. Towards the bottom of my heal is water signifying my love for swimming and the lake. Anytime I can get away and spend the weekend at the lake on the boat or in the water I am there. Towards the toe of my foot there is a staff full of treble clef signs and notes. This signifies my love for music. Music has always been a passion of mine as I love to sing as well as dance. Behind my name written very lightly but gives my footprint a new prospective is the lyrics to one of my favorite songs "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey. And lastly at the heal of my foot is a track along with a soccer ball, football, baseball bat, and a basketball. This signifies two things, my love for sports as well as my family tie. My father is the High School boys basketball coach as well as the High School golf coach. My brothers also play many sports and now that I'm older i love to go and watch their games.

Art Review

• Description: There are many lines and shapes that mix with complementary and contrasting colors along with words that mix in between colors that are shown in the front and back of the piece.

Analysis: There are many shades and values of blues, whites, reds, and yellow's that are all mixed together. There are many complementary as well as contrasting colors next to each other.

Interpretation: I believe that he used colors in a different way and instead of having a clear picture of what he was going to paint he jumped the gun and just went crazy with the paint.

Judgement: I really like the colors in this piece and how he used the shapes to make a visual impression. As well as the names of the colors hidden in the background of the picture.