My Footprint

My footprint symbolizes things which are important to me and important elements in my life.

The baseball bat reflects my passion for all sports, but specifically my love of baseball. Faith is very important to me which is why there is a bible. Pheasant hunting is nearly a holiday at the Munneke house so I felt I needed to represent that in my footprint. Friends are written on there since friends are always important and finally the tree represents my family tree.

The footprint lesson would be great for the beginning days of class to help students become familiarized and more comfortable with one another. It shows how each of us are different, yet many students may have the same beliefs and elements in their lives as another student.

Elements and Principles of Design Composition.

We had two principles we had to use to create a work of art which would show those two principles. The two I had were movement and shape. For shape I used different sizes of soft balls which show just one type of shape repeated over and over again and also diamond type rocks which showed random shapes over and over again. For the sense of movement I created a path for which the shapes flowed from and to where they were flowing.

Eric Carle Collage

My squirrel was inspired through two books of Eric Carle. We had to make a collage of an animal and relate it to a lesson. I did not want to do a bug or insect as the rest of the class and decided I would make a squirrel. To relate it to a lesson, after reading books by Eric Carle the students could create their own lesson and make up a story for this hungry looking squirrel.

African Safari

For this project we did a lesson on students going on a "safari to Africa". Students draw their animal and perhaps a few other background pictures for the animal in a blue color. Students then use warm colors such as orange, red, pink, and yellows to "hide" their animal. The use of patterns and strong bold lines does an effective job of keeping the lion hidden. Then the students create their own special glasses to gaze upon their hidden animal, which in my case is a lion. You can see in the picture below what the drawing looks like through the "magic" glasses. This lesson would be an excellent lesson for any classroom and any level. I feel high schoolers would have a great time doing this lesson, although it is more suited for the grade school level.

Starry Night by Vincent von Gogh

The goal in this lesson was to recreate the painting by Vincent von Gogh. We used our fingers to paint and our main objective was to include as many textures and bold colors as possible, along with many lines of movement. We then had to create a story along with our painting to give a purpose as to why the artist painting the specific scene.

My story goes: The brother of a young man on a baseball team decided to watch his brothers game. He chose to sit on a hill overlooking the baseball field and watched the game on the breezy, cool night.

Art Review 10/05/2009

Art Review
Artist Name: Berthe Moristot
Title of Artwork: Un Village

Describe: The Facts- Shapes and lines with the outlines of the houses. The painting looks to have a rough texture. The grasses and and smoke show plenty of movement in the picture, yet the scene seems calm

Analysis: The Design- Lots of cool colors. Different shades and tints of blues and greens. Neutral colors which stand out and become the focus point of the painting

Interpretation: The Meaning- Called Un Village probably because the painters main emphsasis of the painting is the serene little village. It is what first catches your eye in the painting. It is hard to tell just from the painting the reasoning of the artist to paint this picture, but it looks to be a small, calm village in what I would assume to be somewhere in Europe.

Judgement: The painting looks to be very relaxed and you do not see any people, yet you can tell from the smoke rising from the houses that it is an active and alive town. It is an older painting and you can defintely tell from the design of the houses and the village.