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monalisaliveshere · 4 years

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“There is strong shadow where there is much light.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the way light falls on an object and trying to capture it in a drawing with pencil on paper.

Our focus on drawing is directly influenced by the celebration of the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870 and the opportunity to submit drawings to a statewide celebration. You can read all about the Drawing Act in this post from March 16, 2020: Drawing Act 150: Let’s Celebrate. At the time of the post, we had just been released from school for what we thought was a two week quarantine due to the rise in incidents of Covid-19. Since then, schools have been closed through the end of the school year. Despite this shift, the Drawing Act Coalition, with the leadership of House Representative Mary Keefe (Worcester) and MassArt Chief of Staff Susana Segat, continues to meet to entertain ways to adapt, revise, and continue the celebration. At this time, entries are still being accepted via email. Because my students have school iPads at home, the Drawing Act unit is still viable. And so we soldier on.

For a couple of weeks, early in the time of remote learning, students copied the drawings of Walter Smith, who (literally) wrote the book on drawing instruction. This is the video I released to students to introduce the lesson and share information about the Drawing Act and Walter Smith: Drawing Instruction

At that point, ALL assignments were optional, so I know not all students participated in the lesson, although many did. Here are a few examples of the work that was submitted:

We took a break from the Drawing Act unit during Week 5 of remote learning – the week before April vacation – to lighten things up with the Make A Chicken project. Once we returned from vacation (staycation) and were energized and ready to get back to the business of drawing, I shared the skill builder lesson video with my students for How to Draw and Shade a Sphere. In teaching remotely, we are limited to the assign/submit method of instruction rather than the casual over-the-shoulder glance at student artwork during class in the physical classroom. We also have limited opportunities for communication. Normally, in a unit such as this one on Drawing, kids would enter the classroom and take sketchbooks from the class bins, read a prompt on the white board and start sketching. This is when those over-the-shoulder glances are so important, both as checks for understanding and as formative assessments. Then we’d move on to direct instruction in the form of a 5 minute demo with the document camera while all looked on. It’s at that point, currently, where remote learning begins, without the benefit of the “bell ringer” or warm up exercise. The video above replaces the 5 minute demo in remote learning, except it isn’t in person AND there’s no “ask me a question” opportunity. Despite the physical disconnect, my students did well with the assignment. Some chose to blend with a tissue or their fingers. Here are two of the 100+ spheres turned in to the Draw and Shade a Sphere assignment:

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Orianna M

During week seven of remote learning, I shared the video Light On White as an introduction to the lesson. The goal was for students to explore the way light falls on a white surface and the grays that are created by multiple geometric planes receiving the light at different angles. As you can see in the video, I offered the idea of folding paper with origami and sketching it, or randomly folding paper and sketching a less organized subject. I wanted it to be open to individual creativity (always) while exposing all students to the concepts of value, shading, and light. As you can see in the artwork below, there is a nice range of organized and random paper foldings. You can also view these artworks on Artsonia here. If you click on one of the photos below, you can view the gallery as a slideshow.

Tyler V

Timothy R

Theo B

Sierra L

Sam C

Roisin W

Quinn G

Molly D

Maxwell B

Max G

Lily T

Kyle R

Kayleigh F

Justin fr

jayden P

Hayden F

Grace S

Emma R

Emma L

Ekakshar B

Drew F

Cormack D

Connor M

Colton K

Colt M

Caelin F

Bridget L

Brady U

Ayden J

Anna L.

Andrew L

Ana T

Alyssa Burdzel

Adam D

During the week that my students were working on this project, I invited them to join me for a half hour virtual class to fold paper with origami. Electives class live sessions are optional in our district, so I was happy to some have kids attend the sessions. Although I originally invited them to make paper cranes or to show me how to make something, I came across an easy way to make Baby Yoda with origami.

That option met with universal approval. We had a lot of laughs and bantered back and forth, yet made some pretty sweet Baby Yodas!

DrawingAct150/Light on White/Wk 7 Remote Learning "There is strong shadow where there is much light." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For the past two weeks, we've been looking at the way light falls on an object and trying to capture it in a drawing with pencil on paper.

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monalisaliveshere · 4 years

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“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.” – Jack Kerouac

Yesterday was March 1. Spring is just 17 days away. Yet, except for cold air, it hasn’t looked very wintery around here. Fortunately, my fifth and sixth grade art students can create winter from memory and their imaginations.

Baby Yoda’s Christmas by Sean Lewinsky

My drawing is Baby Yoda’s Christmas. He is warm next to his campfire and has 3 big presents. He is enjoying his time by eating cookies. Baby Yoda is inside of a mouse hole for his house. I started out by drawing presents because at first I just wanted to fill my page with Christmas stuff. I wanted to draw Baby Yoda and ended up giving him a little home. I thought it would be funny to make him be in a mouse hole. I am extremely happy on how this came out and hope I draw this good in the future. If I did it again I would not change anything because I love it the way it is. – Sean Lewinsky

We started our third term on January 23. This is the day when the middle school students switch electives and I receive nine new classes. We always start by making folders to hold artwork and works in progress throughout our two terms together.

The folders are made by folding an 18″ x 24″ sheet of 60 lb. drawing paper in half to 12″ x 18″. Students then measure and draw a 10″ square, centered on the front page. This term’s theme or prompt was “Draw something winter” with the added instruction, “whatever that means to you”. As you’ll see below, the kids had no trouble coming up with winter memories and experiences and depicting them in colored pencil.

All of these artworks plus many, many more are on display on our online Artsonia gallery and each is accompanied by an artist statement like the one about Baby Yoda’s Christmas above. You can see them here: Winter Scenes

Sean Lewinsky

Anna LaBastie

Fady Ghobrial

Nick Loo

Greyson Blalock

Sam Crotty

Alyssa Burdzel

Tiffany Constancio

Ana Tengler

Bridget LaRue

Brady Gibbons

Ben Moon

Madeline Olson

Luciana Pereira

Kaylyn Taylor

Kevin Ruddock

Cillian Scott

Will Cudmore

Riley Collura

Tyler Vance

Connor Miller

Irelyn Bradley

Kate McCobb

Thomas Garefalakis

Sydney Darragh

Orianna Murphy

Winter Scenes "I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove." - Jack Kerouac…

#Artsonia #creativity #drawing #MiscoeHill #mursd #mursdvisualart

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