altered book

Images from my altered book.

response to peer

I really liked Zandrea's idea about body tattoos from her project book. I have always been interested in tattoos as a serious art form and would like to research about the cultural history behind tattooing in different countries. The placement of the tattoo and the imagery are both very symbolic and personal for each person. I may create a project book of my own about this idea and translate it into a lesson plan for my students.

prompt list

From our prompt activities, I found the following 10 to be my favorites:

1) walking on air

2) in the middle

3) mountain out of a molehill

4) birds of a feather

5) penny for your thoughts

6) young at heart

7) favorite mistake

8) perfect strangers

9) double trouble

10) eye of the storm

Project book

Images from my project book. I had my 19 month old daughter draw on my papers, then I drew over them to create images of her creating art.

teaching environment

I have learned so many things this week that I plan on taking back to my classroom. The brainstorming (prompting) activities and the critical thinking and questioning techniques are the most important thing that I can translate into my teaching. I came to this class struggling with keeping all of my students engaged and helping them to be creative on their own. I also really enjoyed learning how to use new materials in making projects, such as the powdered graphite, wax paper drawings, and the many transfer techniques. Of course, the altered book project will also be a must-try activity for my AP students. I have really enjoyed all of the new information I learned through this course and also taking the time to create art again. I can't wait to see how my students translate these activities in their own way.

Leonardo's Pizza

Found drawing series

Fav Everything Book image

I really liked doughnuts before this exercise.

the first book

I decided to not use my tape and only use my papers on this one. I followed Twyla's advice and limited myself to see how I would do. I thought this origami figure would work well (it's the top part of a box). I thought that a book could be defined as information stored on paper that is bound together, and since it didn't say permanently bound, I thought that this would count. Each piece of the figure can be opened to view a secret inner message.