Project Description:
Students will become architects and create their own house by using a variety of two-dimensional materials such as acrylic and watercolor paint, construction paper, oils pastels, colored pencils, and markers.
Essential Understanding:
Artists draw inspiration from their culture to influence the space and shapes in their artwork.
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Students can use a variety of materials to make a multi-media artwork.
Key Concepts:
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Space
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Culture
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Shape
Skills:
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Combining materials
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Drawing inspiration from architecture
Art Focus:
Making a composition by using a variety of two-dimensional materials to make shapes.
Literary Focus:
Students are using art vocabulary to describe artworks.
Documentation
For this project, there were five different stations that were set up: construction/foam paper, acrylic paint, watercolor, oil pastels and markers, and colored pencils. Below shows discoveries make by students as they used the different two-dimensional materials to create their house.
The student shown in the video below discovered a new way to combine different mediums to create a new color. They experimented with the materials by coloring with marker first then adding watercolor on top, "I used a marker and paint to make it."
Below shows more discoveries made at the watercolor station. Through experimentation, the student in the video on the left discovered that something interesting happens to the paint when you dab the paintbrush. "All I did is I put it into a new color then I put it down and it spread cause there is already water on the piece." The student in the video on the right discovered the same effect, "I got blue, then I got yellow, then I got orange and then I got red." They then described that the paint spread because it was "drippy."
Below shows videos of discoveries made at the construction/foam paper station. These two students wondered how to make doors that open and close. The student in the video on the left tried to use a glue stick and discovered that it wasn't sticking the way she wanted it to. The student in the video on the right discovered a different technique to make opening and closing doors with tape.
Below shows a video of a student continuing to form new ideas about her house as she creates it! She made the discovery that by using oval shapes on the roof of her house she can imitate the appearance of leaves.
Below shows a video of a student discovering that she can manipulate the foam and give it textures by using her scissors.
The student in the image below drew inspiration from floating houses that she learned about in the book we read in the beginning of the class. She combined a rectangle and an oval to obtain the basic shape of her floating home.