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Ten Lessons Arts Teach

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 2:47 pm on Friday, March 27, 2009

This article talks about why teaching children about the arts is so important for their growth.  Not only does art help build their creativity, but they also learn techniques for everyday life.  For example, the arts teaches children that problems can have more than one solution and there are multiple perspectives, which is something that […]

Portfolio Piece #6

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 7:11 pm on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

  I did lesson # 23 (review of line-using line to create the illusion of form) where I created a picture of my hand with an illusion of form.  I had to use contour lines to create the form of my hand.  This activity teaches children the technique needed to create the illusion of depth.  […]

Portfolio Piece #5

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 7:09 pm on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

  I did lesson #11 (red grass and orange sky- and opposite picture) where I had to create a picture on one half of a paper  and color the objects with their complimentary colors.  When the picture was finished, I stared at the colored half of the paper and then stare at the white side of […]

Portfolio piece #4

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 7:48 pm on Monday, March 16, 2009

  I did lesson #26 (Review of Form and Paper Houses) where I had to create a 3D house.  This lesson teaches the children how to fold paper into a form that is attractive from all sides.  The activity was not hard and I think it helps children understand that you can see objects from […]

Bringing Children to Art- Bringing Art to Children and the trip to the museum

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 8:08 pm on Sunday, March 1, 2009

The article Bringing Children to Art- Bringing Art to Children, is about the importance of art in children’s life. The aricle first talked about being in the museum for teaching and learning.  The author states how critical it is for children to be around the original works of art to view the art firsthand.  Being in […]

Portfolio Piece #3

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 7:44 pm on Wednesday, February 25, 2009

I did lesson #28 (Geometric Shape) which was making a colorful design using geometric shapes. This activity was time consuming, but I thought it was a good activity to help teach children about positive and negative shape.  The activity also helped children with their geometric shapes and their small muscle control.  I think the activity turned out […]

Teaching Art with Books Kids Love

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 3:42 pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I like the book that was required for this class, Teaching Art with Books Kids Love.  I thought the author did a good job of simplifying everything so that anyone could read the book and understand what the author was talking about.  Every section starts out with a definition of the topic and then there are […]

Portfolio Piece #2

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 6:32 pm on Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I did lesson 44 (paper bag puppets) as a way of reviewing form, dimension, and depth.  I though this was an important activity because children like puppets and this is a way for them to creatively design their own puppets.  This activity also helps reinforce the concept of form because the students have to do […]

Art Education 244

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 6:57 pm on Sunday, January 18, 2009

From the article Understanding The Visual Language Of Picturebooks, I have learned more about the importance of pictures in picturebooks.  I always knew that the pictures helped children get into the book more and understand the words visually, but I never thought about how much the pictures tie the book together.  Catalano describes that the purpose of the […]

Portfolio Piece #1

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 6:05 pm on Sunday, January 18, 2009

I did lesson 15 (black crayon on white paper) which is out of the value section.  I chose to do this lesson because I feel like it is important to teach children the concept of a value slowly going from dark to light or gradation.  This lesson helps the children learn by actually doing it […]