Sydney's Art Portfolio

 Hidden Safari: For this lesson we were to create an animal that was "hidden." To begin, we used a technique were we drew a picture upside down from an example picture. We had to practice on a few examples and from there we could pick out our animal. Then, we drew our animal, using the upside down technique, but on a bigger piece of paper. Once we had that copied down with a blue colored pencil, we were shown how we hide our animal using warm colors. We had to have at least 3 layers over our animal so we couldn't see it. Then, we created red glasses that we could put on to see our animal, these glasses allowed us to see the animal and not the layers of warm colors. These are the glasses we made so we could see the picture behind the layers. The monkey is very faint but I wanted to make sure it was hidden behind the layers. Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I would have my students write a story about their artwork. It could be about a safari from their point ...

 Dotting Lesson: For this lesson, we worked with paint using the dotting technique. We talked about warm and cool colors and different ways we can use dotting in our artwork. We were to sketch out the animal cutout we picked and plan how we wanted to dot around it. From there we followed step-by-step instructions on how to cut a brown bag so it was flat and we could paint on it. Finally, we glued down our animal and could begin dotting around it with paint. My goal for the dotting was to create a gradient effect. Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I would have my students focusing on a specific part of the world. For the lesson, they focused on Australia, so I could use the same area. We would talk about the food, animals, people, environments etc. While we were talking about the environment, I would use this art project and have the students create the environment that their animal lives in. The students would still be required to use the dotting technique to create th...

 Scratching Lesson: For this lesson, we had to create a lizard using scratch art. We began by using oil pastels to color the rainbow on a piece of paper. Then we taped the sides of the paper and used a black mixture to paint over the rainbow. While that was drying, we went over a PowerPoint about different artists who use scratching to create art. We then had to draw our own chameleons and trace them onto a pre-made scratching paper. Once our black mixture was dry, we traced the chameleon on the black mixture. From there we use the wood tool to scratch out our chameleon. Extension Activity: As an extension activity, I would pair this lesson with science. We could talk about different habitats that animals live in. With a main focus on the habitat that a chameleon lives in. We would talk about other animals that live in the same habitat, plants found in that habitat, and what kind of food can grow in the same habitat. We could also look to see if humans could survive in the same hab...