Advanced Paintings

Dinosaur Island
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Fox Man
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Intermediate Paintings

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Sleeping Fox
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Tropical Panorama
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Waterfall
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A Lesson on Comics and Photography

For a lesson, we were put into groups of 3 and expected to create a series of photographs which would make up a comic. We were each given a phobia to base our comics off of.

My group got fear of chickens. We instantly started making props to turn a group member into a chicken.

Amy as a Chicken

We found it difficult to create props for our photographs in such a limited time. However, in a classroom setting you would have more than one day to make a series of props. We only had 15-20 minutes to do everything.

Our idea was to have a girl sleeping and dreaming of a chicken attacking her.  This was the photo we ended up with:

Chicken attacking

Something we definitiely struggled with was our background. Without being in an area where we could make it look like a bedroom, we found our idea kind of difficult.

Photography Throughout The Semester

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How I Fear People See Me: Crazy Cat Lady
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How I Fear People See Me: I'm a Redhead so I Must Be Irish
(based off of Irish folklore)
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How I Fear People See Me: I'm An Artist so I must be like (insert famous artist here)...
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How I Fear People See Me: I'm a college student so I must be getting drunk all the time
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DISCLAIMER: None of the above shown drinking is actual alcohol. The wine is sweet tea, the shots are seltzer and the pink drink is terrible sour koolaid.

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Catcher and The Rye
Model: Self
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Fahrenheit 451
Model: Kenny
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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Model: Michael
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On Keeping A Notebook in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Model: Mother
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A Lesson on Communication

During the last class, a group presented their project on making art with communication. We were paired up, and told to describe a memory. As we described our memory, our partner was to draw out what we said using craypas.

The memory I chose for this was over the summer my boyfriend and I had gone to the beach, but the water was so full of horseshoe crabs that we couldnt go in the actual water and instead spent the time walking along the beach surrounded by horseshoe crabs and sunbathers. My partner, pretty much got the memory down well, or to the best she could with the descriptions i gave and the materials. When it was my turn, I drew out her christmas memory of being so excited for her N64 system. I found it hard to draw well with the craypas, and realized my end result looked very childish. I would not have been happy with this as my final project. I was curious to what the class would say, and during the critique of the lesson I found they also felt that way. However, it was a very fun assignment. Possibly adding a sketching stage and more chance for details and then using the craypas to add color and such.

I think it was definitely an interesting lesson, and I hadn't considered doing a project this way until now.

Fingerings lesson reflection

Last Tuesday, a group taught a lesson about symmetrical art that used the human body as a tool to create. We were given chalk and charcoal to use with our hands on black and white paper and create abstract and figurative pieces of art. I thought this lesson was interesting, but it had some flaws for it as well.

My real concern is the age level for this lesson. I can see middle school kids doing this, and possibly younger. But I feel a high school (or up) level might get bored or think it's too easy. I found myself finishing at a rapid pace, and while we were given multiple sheets of paper to do more and more, i would've gotten bored in a highschool setting of doing repetitious assignments. However, I did think it was quite interesting about using the body to create art. Most people think finger painting and assume it's for toddlers, but it was new to see an older group work with their hands to create 2D work. So at the same time of me wondering about the age group, I really enjoyed the new inventive way to work.

Fieldwork has finally come to an end...

For my placement I spent an extra two days there, trying to work in my lesson to teach to the students. A part of me is a bit sad that I didn't get the chance to teach a lesson but at the same time it allowed for me to see first hand all the chaos that happens in a classroom.

I was placed in an art subject that I was not very familiar with, ok...to be honest, not familiar with at all. I have dabbled in photoshop but never explored it in the depths these viscom students were going in. It was cool to learn from them and the teacher, because I had no idea what I was doing in regards to viscom lessons. My teacher worked with me and we came up with a lesson that ideally I would have taught. However, holidays happened, teacher absences, chaos and more chaos happened in the classroom. Servers went down wiping out a lot of the students hard work, and I got to see first hand how a teacher would handle the situation of telling the students the bad news.

To get more specific, the students who are a part of the school newspaper had their next issue entirely deleted off the computers. My mentor teacher, and the helping teacher for the class, dreaded telling the students but when they did, the students had a very surprising response. After being told all their work was deleted, they banded together and began throwing out ideas about coming in on extra days and free periods to all work together to get the paper back on track by their deadline (the 10th of december). The teachers themselves were shocked at how hard the students were willing to work to  make sure that the paper was printed on time.  It was quite a moving moment, and even the teacher joked that he felt he was in the movie It's A Wonderful Life. Throughout the day the kids came in on their free periods and started the process all over again.

It was because of this and other hectic days, that I was unable to teach my lesson. Luckily, I was able to work with the teacher and develop a very interesting lesson which I can use at a later date.