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.