Oct 5-8th 2015 Weekly Focus for ART Encore: Mrs. GosnellKinder 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Unit 3: Through the Seasons

Unit 2: The Amazing Animal

World

Unit 2: The Wild West

bandanachapslasso

Unit 2: The People, The

Preamble, and the Presidents

Native Americans Pre-Columbian Art MondayStudents will complete their clay work by smoothing the surface of their work.

Growing Pumpkins, Pumpkin Pumpkin,

Too Many Pumpkins, From Seed to

Pumpkin

Life in the Sea Cowboys/Cowgirls Yipee-YayI Want to Be a Cowboy

Coming to America-GROrphan of Ellis Island- RA

TuesdayStudents will plan and sketch their image for printmaking.

Students will work together to create a pumpkin patch by planting their pumpkin seed and making a pumpkin collage.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/97320041921209771/

Students will create a tropical fish collage cut-out.

Students will decorate and create a wearable cowboy hat and bandana.

Students will learn human face proportion and begin a portrait of the president from their reports.

Students will make Native American designs into full size design painting

Students will continue working on Pre-Columbian and create Native American masks with assemblage and paper mache.

WednesdayStudents willcontinue their printmaking image by cutting out their stencils

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Students willcontinue their printmaking image by cutting out their stencils

Brown and blue craft paper

FridayStudents will print their designs onto tee shirt.

Assessment: Participation and end product

ere are lots of reasons to love polymer clay, but if you're of a DIY mindset, you might try making some cold porcelain-an air-drying clay that's amazing for jewelry and other small projects. Here's how!What you'll need:3/4 cup white glue1/2 cup water1 teaspoon cold cream (such as Pond's)

1 teaspoon glycerin1 cup cornstarch, plus additional for dusting your hands

Get more jewelry projects:

• How to Make a Striking Centerpiece Necklace• Make a One-Inch Button Pendant• Turn a Soda Can into a Spring Flower Brooch• Make Beach Glass Earrings

Assemble all your ingredients before you begin. If you have trouble finding glycerin, try a drugstore's skin care aisle, or a cake-decorating store.

If possible, use an old saucepan and spoon for this process. The ingredients in cold porcelain aren't toxic, but they can be sticky, so don't use your best utensils!

  Mix the wet ingredients over medium heat.

Begin by mixing the white glue, water, cold cream, and glycerin in a saucepan. Stir this mixture over medium heat until it's smooth. (You may need to mash that cold cream up a bit in order to get it to dissolve.)

  Add the cornstarch and continue stirring.

When the wet ingredients are nice and smooth, add 1 cup of cornstarch. Be ready-the mixture will transform very quickly at this point. Continue stirring. The mixture will rapidly become quite stiff.

  At first, the mixture will look like cottage cheese...

  ...and within minutes, it will stiffen into something that looks like mashed potatoes.

When the mixture forms one clump and has pulled away from the sides of the pan, it's done.  Wrap the hot clay in

a clean, wet dish towel.

Next, you'll be kneading the clay with your hands. But it's still pretty hot to the touch at this point. So, take a clean, old dish towel and wet it with cold water. Drape this towel over a plate and place the clay on it.

Take a moment to fill your saucepan with hot, soapy water. Soak any spoons or other utensils you've used.

  Knead the clay through the wet towel until it's cool enough to handle.

Wrap the wet towel over the clay and knead through it. Pause every couple of strokes to pull the towel from the clay, then repeat the process.  Continue kneading,

dusting cornstarch on your hands to prevent sticking.

In a few minutes, the clay will be cool enough to handle, so you can continue kneading with your hands. Keep a small bowl of cornstarch nearby, and keep lots of it dusted on your hands so the clay doesn't stick. You can also dust the surface of the plate with cornstarch as needed.

  This clay recipe makes a ball about the size of a grapefruit.

After about five more minutes of kneading, your clay will look like this-smooth textured, elastic, and no longer sticky. If you want to add some color to your clay, you can knead in a little acrylic or oil paint at this point.Place your clay in an airtight container while you proceed to wash all your utensils and surfaces. You don't want any of that glue mixture to dry on anything!By the way, if you don't want to make your own, you can buy lovely premade cold porcelain in lots of colors online from Cold Porcelain Designs.When you work with your cold porcelain, prepare a work surface that can double as a drying place. I like to put some foil over a cookie sheet and work on that because when I'm done, I can set the cookie sheet someplace safe while my work dries.

Now, cold porcelain does so many things. Cold Porcelain Designs has some fun examples of hand-modeled figures and tiny roses. And the shop offers some great tutorial videos on You Tube. You can also see cold porcelain creations atCold Porcelain Flowers. 

  Candy molds are great for making cold porcelain pendants.

Or, here's a very simple project: candy-mold pendants! Just rub a little cold cream into a candy mold (and a little on your hands) so the clay won't stick. Then, press a tiny bit of clay into the mold at a time, taking care to press clay into every nook and cranny. Keep adding more clay a little at a time until you've filled the mold.

  Check the mold to make sure no air bubbles are trapped inside.

If your mold is transparent, check it from the other side to make sure there aren't any air bubbles trapped in the clay. See that little bubble in the star above? I'll need to press that out, so it won't show up in my finished pendant.

Leave the clay in the mold overnight. It will shrink a bit as it dries, so you should be able to pop it out of the mold easily.

  Press an eye pin into the top of the pendant.

You can then press an eye pin into the top of the clay, like this. Leave the clay to dry. Depending on the size and thickness of your pendant, this can take anywhere from overnight to several days.

  Cold porcelain shrinks as it dries. See the difference between this fully dried pendant and the original mold?

When dry, the clay will be very hard, slightly translucent, and quite a bit smaller, as you can see. Because the clay shrinks as it dries, the eye pin will be very securely fastened after drying.

Once dry, you can paint and embellish your pendant any way you like. I decoupaged some washi paper onto mine. You can also rubber-stamp onto this clay, or draw on it with markers. Be sure to seal your work with Mod Podge or a water-based varnish.

Owls, Foil, Glue, and Shoe Polish

(original artwork by David, grade 5)Art Club, Grades 1-6

This is one of my all-time favorite projects. The technique has been around for years, and I've loved using it several times with my students. This time around, our art is of owls and leaves.

We first planned our compositions, paying attention to all of the positive and negative spaces. We wanted to be sure they were all interesting. Here are some step-by-step instructions. Let me know if you need help!

1. Draw your picture on paper the size of your final cardboard. Just the big shapes, no details.

**I've noticed on Pinterest  some people think we used coloring book images. Not so- we used our own drawings for these. We had owl photos and real leaves to look at, and I reminded the artists to keep it simple, fill the page, and no details. You could use coloring books, but the kid's drawings are so wonderful, I would hate to miss out on them!!

2. Go over your simple drawing with Sharpie.3. Turn your drawing over. On the back, use your pencil on it's side  to go over your lines.4. Place your drawing right side up on cardboard and trace over your lines for a graphite transfer to the cardboard. (Or, if you want to speed this up, just draw directly on the cardboard. I like to teach the transfer skill, something they can use on future projects.)5.Go over with Sharpie if needed to see lines clearly. 

6. Use a thick, tacky glue to go over the lines and let dry.

(This image has the glue lines on it- they have dried clear.)

7. Use a glue stick to attach the foil. (Shiny or dull side showing-you decide.)8. Wrap the foil over the front and to the back.9. Press foil down around dry glue lines. Use a paper towel over your fingers as you rub to avoid tearing the foil.10. Then use a cotton swab up against the glue outlines once the foil is pressed down, just to be sure the glue outlines show up really well.11. Draw patterns in all of the spaces with a dull pencil. (Use a variety of types of line and scales of patterns.) 

Once you've filled all of the spaces, rub over the whole thing with black shoe polish, wait a few seconds, and wipe off. (I use the kind that comes in a bottle with a sponge applicator lid.)