Jean Wheeler

Portfolio/Semester Review

Fall 2011

Teaching Drawing from ArtChapter 1 and 3

Key Points from both chapters; 1) Worlds that our students make through their drawings

2) Reasons drawing should be taught in schools3) We draw for different reasons

4) Elementary Schools=students should draw everyday

Secondary School=Balance between various components of the art program

5) A good art class should be a mix of drawing, art history, art critical and studio art

Vanitas- in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.

Other Artists who are famous for Vanitas Still Life art:

Audrey Flack Glennray Tutor

Visual Culture Vanitas Still Life

Visual Culture Vanitas Still LifeFor our first assignment we got together in groups and brought in objects that had

meaning/importance to us and worked together to set up a Vanitas Still Life. At first, I had mixed feeling about the assignment in that it was going to be too much, but in the end, I really enjoyed it and I think my still life is one of my favorite pieces I did this semester.

Visual Culture Vanitas Still LifeFinal Drawing

Lesson Plan

Popcorn Art- My Honors IV class does a project where I pop popcorn and they select 10 pieces and from that choose 5 that “represent” a animal, object, thing, etc. From their 5 they choose 3 and sketch the popcorn and the image it represents. Finally, they choose ONE sketch to draw as their Final Project.

Teaching Drawing from Art

Chapter 13

Key Points from the Chapter

1) Drawing from words should be a central part of drawing programs for students of all ages.

2) Using verbal stimulus to create inspired art is key

3) Earl Barns (1892) did a major study on children and how they relate stories, poetry to drawing an art piece.

4) Marion Richards-created the concept of word pictures

Alfred Kubin

Where the Wild Things Are

“ And an ocean tumbled by with a Private boat for Max and he sailed offThrough night and day.”

For this project we had to select a story, poem or music lyrics: I selected the book, Where the Wild Things are. I selected the page that says, “And an ocean tumbled by with a Private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day.”

Verbal to Visual

Final Drawing

Lesson planThis Project is titled Art Synector and my Honors III do this project. I have a list of

100 words and they cut them out and place them in a bin and pull 10 words. From the 10 they have to choose 7 and create a cohesive art piece using their 7 words.

For this project her words were:PortraitDestructionFreedomChainTimeTransparencyEyes

Teaching Drawing from Art

Chapter 10

Key Points from the Chapter

1) The book: Drawing From Memory, was written by Madame Marie Elizabeth Cave

2) There are a variety of methods can help students memorize a work of art.

3) It’s important as an artist that you “store and call upon information”.

For this project we had to work from our memory. We had to first draw our self-portrait and pay VERY close attention to our features: eyes, lips, hair, etc. Then on a larger piece of paper, we had to draw, sketch, paint, etc our self-portraits 10+ times strictly from memory. This assignment was a great challenge in that I really dislike self-portraits!!

Definition of Memory- the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms

Image used for Memory Drawing/Self-Portrait

Memory Drawing: Multiple self-portraits

Lesson PlanFor this assignment, I had my AP students think about memories from their past and

write them down. *They can be good or bad memories. Select 3 memories and come up with creative ways to illustrate them. They will then pick one sketch to turn into their Final Project.

*This student selected her memory

Of her fear of bugs and how her mom

Killed them and in her art reversed the

Roles of the bug and people.

Vladimir Kush

A Fantasy Myth Assignment Using a person in your life who exhibits a certain Idiosyncratic behavior, do

research on fantasy creatures whose characteristics and traits either exemplifies or is opposite of your chosen person based on the description found on the site.

I chose my husband: JOSH

His qualities/traits: Always wears blue, VERY protective, caring, strong, twisted sense of humor, hunts

Research of Fantasy Creatures * DROP BEARS (or drop bear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial.[1]

Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jack lope, hoop snake, wild haggis, or snipe hunt.

*AKHLUT is a spirit that takes the form of both a wolf and an orca. It is a vicious, dangerous beast. Its tracks can be recognized because they are wolf tracks that lead to and from the ocean. Often, dogs seen walking to the ocean and/or into it are considered evil. Little is known of this spirit, other than that it changes from an orca to a wolf when hungry, not many myths relate to it.

Drop Bears Akhlut

Drawing From ImaginationFinal Drawing

Lesson PlanFor this project my Honors III had to select a Myth, Fairy Tale or fantasy

creature and change it to make it their OWN version/design.

* This student selected the story

Of Romeo and Juliet and changed

The characters from people

To animals

Teaching Drawing from Art

Chapter 4

Key Points from the Chapter

1) “Drawing is a symbol system that carries its traditions, but it also carries with it the seeds of its future.”

2) Battleship Potemkin (1925) a vivid and unforgettable images in cinema.

3) “Every work of art-every drawing, painting, sculpture, photograph-is potentially the source for dozens of drawing projects.”

Imagery I used for the Assignment: Combining famous paintings to create ONE image

Experimental DrawingFinal Art Piece

Lesson PlanFor this project my Studio II class had to find images in magazines, on-line, etc. The images have to be on large scale in that their image will make up at least ½ of their final art piece. They then have to crop the picture in some way and finish the other ½ of it in a particular art style: Surrealism, Impressionism, Fauvism, etc

* This student selected

Surrealism as her art style