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09/08/11--14:11: Monochromatic Mountains (chan 2553935)

Monochromatic paintings are made with one color and it’s tints and shades.
When I was in the Appalachian Mountains on a motorcycle tour with my husband, I was inspired to design a lesson using a monochromatic color palette to represent a mountain range. Third graders took this one last year with amazing results (VIEW HERE), so I wanted to try it again. See the video I filmed from the back of the motorcycle below and the Monochromatic Fugleflick.


09/08/11--14:27: Better Late than never... (chan 2553935)

I AM ART received a Shortie Award from the International Shortie Awards in Washington D.C. in June of 2011. The trophy and certificate are on display in the art case at Dryden. View the movie here.
View their acceptance speech here.


09/09/11--14:38: Your Votes can Bring in Resources (chan 2553935)

Homepages for Yahoo gives you a chance to support our classroom project with only some clicks online.
Take a second to help the Dryden Art Program get a grant for styluses for the iPads so we can create like real artists!


09/12/11--10:03: LEARNING perspective with The Scream (chan 2553935)

4th graders traced lines over a photo to see how the edges of the railing on a bridge converge to a vanishing point (See video below) as they prepare to recreate Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Students also collected adjectives to describe Munch’s artwork and we combined these into one Wordle below.


09/16/11--05:53: iPad Possibilities! (chan 2553935)

I learned that you can use the Brushes App on an iPad to digitally match colors and textures from a painting to “wipe out” a section. Then if you have a PNG with transparency, the image can be imported and layered over the painting. Here, let me show you what I’m talking about here:
Want my digitally wiped out image of the scream? empty scream.jpeg.