Week Five Falk Laboratory Middle School

Week Five November 18th-22nd, 2019

Monday November 18th, 2019 

6th grade Humanities

• Using HB, 4B, and 4H graphite pencils to draw your shoes
• HB- medium
• 4B-darkest
• 4H-lightest
• Goals:
• Super light sketch (4H)
• Start to shade in with HB
• Add darkest areas with 4B
• Blend with tortillion tool
• Highlight with white and eraser
• Push dark and light to show contrasts 

8.1 and 8.2 Art Lab

• Self Proposed Projects
• Students continue to narrow down what they would like to work on for their projects
• Given a sheet that they will reflect on and through out the process they must fill out:
• What inspires you?
• What do you want to communicate?
• What materials will you use to communicate your idea?
• The steps to complete the process
• Questions they have, or what they will learn through this project

Tuesday November 19th, 2019

7th Grade Humanities

• Stop Motion Animation Completion
• Q: Are you totally ready to move on to the digital completion of your movie?
• Goals:
• Finish Painting
• Save your video as a movie
• Upload video onto imovie App
• Add music, sounds, filters, and more to your iMovie clip
• Save your edited iMovie Clip
• Upload this final video onto your Google Drive to be saved and stored there forever and whenever you want to project or play it!
• Project final videos for the class to watch 
• Students worked at different paces
• So exciting watching the masterpieces come to life on the big screen
• Students can also project their videos onto their Dream Bedrooms 

8.1 Art Lab

• Students work on their self proposed projects
• Students fill out their reflection forms and answer the questions "What inspires you?" "What do you want to communicate" and "What materials do you love and want to learn more about"
• Many students continued to sketch and fill out the form
• Other students started "mini" versions of their projects to explore the material and play with their ideas before getting started
• Students are working with clay, plaster, oil paint, wire, iStop Motion and more

Puppeteer Visitor

• Turkish Puppeteer put on a performance for the fifth graders and then held a workshop with the students
• The students created their own puppets with a similar construction and material that the famous puppeteer uses
• The students learned how to be a shadow puppeteer and saw behind the scenes how all the lights and puppets work
• Students were able to take their puppets on stage and experience the full shadow puppet show

Wednesday November 20th, 2019

7th Grade Humanities

• iStop Motion Completion
• Same as above ^

8.2 and 8.3 Art Lab

• Same as above ^

Ideas for next 8th grade humanities:

• Mosaic glass tiles
• Relief sculptures with plaster casting 

Thursday November 21st, 2019

6th Grade Humanities

• Lead teacher as students draw their shoes with different graphite pencils
• HB
• 4H
• 4B
• Drawings focus on shade and shadow
• Display the shoe drawings in the hallway

8.1 and 8.2 Art Lab

• Students continue to work on self proposed projects 

Prepare for 8th Humanities

• Printing on Linoleum Blocks
• Using two opposing patterns in one design
• Strong contrast between light and dark
• Creating negative space
• A pattern that focuses on light and one that focuses on dark
• https://www.widewalls.ch/repetition-in-art-artists-photography
• https://mcescher.com/about/biography/
• M.C. Esher
• He plays with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and wonder millions of people around the world. In his work we recognize his excellent observation of the world around us and the expression of his own fantasy. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wonderful, understandable and fascinating.
• He is most famous for his so-called impossible drawings, such as Ascending and Descending and Relativity, but also for his metamorphoses, such as Metamorphosis I, II and III, Air and Water I and Reptiles.
• During his lifetime, Escher made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and more than 2000 drawings and sketches. 
• Snakes video, his last woodcut from 1969 and the only color video of Escher ever produced

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

8th Grade Humanities

• Linoleum Print Project
• M.C. Escher
• A dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired prints.Despite current wide popular interest, Eecher was neglected in the artworld for a long time, even in his native Netherlands. He had his first retrospective exhibition when he was 70. In the 21st century he became more widely appreciated with exhibitions around the world. 
• His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, and tessellations. 
• He drew from nature, making studies of insects, landscapes, fish, plants. He traveled in Italy and Spain sketching buildings, townscapes, architecture
• Question:
• Have you ever printed with a linoleum block?
• Goals:
• Draw Design
• Double 1 element found in nature (bunny, dragon, leaf, flower, waves, birds, sun, moon...) 
• Use 2 clashing patterns to show contrast of light and dark
• Transfer to linoleum block
• Sharpie design on linoleum block
• Carve away
• What you carve away will not show the ink