tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75435294699434887942024-03-14T03:18:26.924-07:00Art, Lessons, and Ephemera BlogKallie KirklandKallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-68188071899621154232011-05-12T08:41:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:23:54.795-07:00Diving into Watercolor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRWXX_Os9QCCjyT7DHX9sU_0gf3br5oksK2NjQBImTyMjqro0wWymbDFpeEK0fu17DBs5lK9VxyMnawN4SIaqUxc2jBa13y4I9Y253TnvbiofulvGCm8nCNiu1DvclYwzfFYZERmSWV5w/s1600/Watercolor+Fish+031.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRWXX_Os9QCCjyT7DHX9sU_0gf3br5oksK2NjQBImTyMjqro0wWymbDFpeEK0fu17DBs5lK9VxyMnawN4SIaqUxc2jBa13y4I9Y253TnvbiofulvGCm8nCNiu1DvclYwzfFYZERmSWV5w/s400/Watercolor+Fish+031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605890465686439218" /></a><br /><br /><br />Sixth grade artists spent some time practicing watercolor techniques and then we looked at two contemporary watercolor artists, <a href="http://www.sreeve.com/index.html">Sherri Reeve </a> and <a href="http://www.paulinewalshjacobson.com/index.htm">Pauline Walsh Jacobson</a>. Their undersea paintings capture the luminosity and movement that make watercolor and ocean paintings go so well together. Students selected a favorite fish or creature to draw and then copied it onto tracing paper from which they could replicate many times on their watercolor paper. For interest, they might borrow a fish from a classmate to add to their undersea composition. Then, we added fine lines in white crayon to the background in order to give the water a sense of movement. We added a wet on wet wash to the water, then carefully painted our fish. Finally, we added splatters of paint using a pipette to add an underwater "bubbling" effect.<br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F112584988726808910467%2Falbumid%2F5605851929161052081%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCKGrzaOkvPjQRw%26hl%3Den_US"pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-15516852479302946622011-04-13T11:02:00.000-07:002011-04-13T17:16:40.424-07:00Just Desserts à la Wayne Thiebaud<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TaXZ3bgxw2I/AAAAAAAAAl8/ZwRwGiFL-IY/s512/Desserts%20019.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 512px; height: 491px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TaXZ3bgxw2I/AAAAAAAAAl8/ZwRwGiFL-IY/s512/Desserts%20019.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9us_a4zktnamsX2IkKxj183aKrtvDXWHsvgdl9luXb8gqW3uNPN1zGVWmzsld1LyYTtYQWAggKTWcx6ctTDGmMPA5WCdnUmakSMtXjg4lfQYqRK4LsrBEF3NIrc2Hg5mbvvmm5FPFJBM/s1600/Desserts_039.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9us_a4zktnamsX2IkKxj183aKrtvDXWHsvgdl9luXb8gqW3uNPN1zGVWmzsld1LyYTtYQWAggKTWcx6ctTDGmMPA5WCdnUmakSMtXjg4lfQYqRK4LsrBEF3NIrc2Hg5mbvvmm5FPFJBM/s320/Desserts_039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595133401548540274" /></a><br />Everyone loves dessert! Sixth grade artists were introduced to the work of Wayne Thiebaud and his desserts a plenty. We chose a photo from a magazine of our favorite dessert and made 6x6" sketches that we transfered to 6x6" canvas. The students were encouraged to work slowly to build layers of acrylic paint, resulting in an impasto surface that mimicks real icing perfectly. YUMMY. Click on the lemon meringue to see more paintings: <br /><a href="http://goo.gl/photos/u1Q3eyoKLd" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TaXY2MH-PWE/AAAAAAAAApE/umKeZTl2jVc/s160-c/DessertPaintings.jpg"></a>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-29118610360969913802011-04-05T16:58:00.000-07:002011-04-05T17:04:50.725-07:00Chuck Close, graphite and charcoal close ups<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TVBW5bA8kDI/AAAAAAAAAOo/R8jzclCEdkg/s512/GridSelfPortraits%20006.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 512px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TVBW5bA8kDI/AAAAAAAAAOo/R8jzclCEdkg/s512/GridSelfPortraits%20006.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/A7Ippd6N-bDJnH8klHG_8g?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TVBW5-DKlkI/AAAAAAAAALk/6mGaqA14AaM/s144/GridSelfPortraits%20008.jpg" height="144" width="108" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/112584988726808910467/GridSelfPortraitsARTI?feat=embedwebsite">Grid Self Portraits -ART I</a></td></tr></table><br />Middle School self-portraits. The agony, the arguments, and sometimes surprised and pleased outcomes for students. Basing our lesson on the technical portraits of Chuck Close, students enlarged a black and white photograph to three times it's original size. Students worked one square at a time, allowing them to concentrate on values in each fragment rather than making the overall paper 'look good.' <br /><table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/112584988726808910467/GridSelfPortraitsARTI?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TVBVcg1etXE/AAAAAAAAAPo/wsgtDK-J3w4/s160-c/GridSelfPortraitsARTI.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/112584988726808910467/GridSelfPortraitsARTI?feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">Grid Self Portraits -ART I</a></td></tr></table>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-1341774843470728352011-04-05T16:30:00.000-07:002011-04-05T16:53:29.117-07:00Prismacolor Flowers for Beginning Art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://teacherweb.com/TX/WalshMiddleSchool/Kirkland/Picture-082.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 550px; height: 376px;" src="http://teacherweb.com/TX/WalshMiddleSchool/Kirkland/Picture-082.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Sixth grade art students are capable of amazing things. They are so willing to try and they soak up instruction like brilliant artistic sponges. For this project, each student selected a photo of a flower or plant, and then they made sketches of of image in their journals. Next, students practiced enlarging the image to twice its size while still keeping the same proportions and textures as the original. Finally, we transferred the image to colored Canson paper and after several Prismacolor training sessions, students began adding color to the images. The results are amazing and the beginning art students were very proud. <table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/112584988726808910467/PrismacolorFlowerGallery?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_FvIvrOrgiUc/TUsYlMbhbtE/AAAAAAAAAHk/aPnmOBbN9TE/s160-c/PrismacolorFlowerGallery.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/112584988726808910467/PrismacolorFlowerGallery?feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">Prismacolor Flower Gallery</a></td></tr></table>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-84969976129215371672009-12-10T06:04:00.000-08:002009-12-10T06:10:05.928-08:00Batik with paint and ink<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/SyD9E0GnYGI/AAAAAAAABNs/Wzl9KLDoeR8/s512/IMG_2649.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 412px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/SyD9E0GnYGI/AAAAAAAABNs/Wzl9KLDoeR8/s512/IMG_2649.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />BATIK~a method of decorating cloth by covering part of it with wax and then dyeing the cloth, is easily simplified in the art classroom with crayons and watercolor. In this project, we used chalk, acrylic paint, and india ink. <br />5th graders studied the art of batik and created animal designs in chalk on paper. Then, students painted their animals and added ink to their paintings, washing away the ink after only a few minutes to reveal their animal designs. We touched up areas where color was lost with oil pastels to create high-contrast designs.Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-60799436455124782982009-12-07T17:13:00.000-08:002009-12-07T17:49:20.148-08:00Cityscape Collages<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/SxliadQtjcI/AAAAAAAAA7o/9viiCmuTzTA/IMG_2577.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 187px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/SxliadQtjcI/AAAAAAAAA7o/9viiCmuTzTA/IMG_2577.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sxk16NRW8FI/AAAAAAAAA7I/QipSy2C-bmA/IMG_2576.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 187px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sxk16NRW8FI/AAAAAAAAA7I/QipSy2C-bmA/IMG_2576.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Third and Fourth grade students enjoyed looking at different photos of Tegucigalpa and comparing them to other cityscapes from around the world. We began our cityscapes by working in layers, from the top to the bottom of the paper. Students used torn paper to add sky and the distant hills that surround our city. We made sure that each of us was presenting our city and home in a "bird's eye view," so that we each had a clear horizon line in our work. We added buildings to the middle ground that we see in our community, and we added our home in the foreground.Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-83933587920165631402009-12-07T16:42:00.000-08:002009-12-07T17:52:51.770-08:00Fall Trees<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sw2AqT_Dv-I/AAAAAAAAA3M/2O3GTYSuN1U/IMG_2489.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sw2AqT_Dv-I/AAAAAAAAA3M/2O3GTYSuN1U/IMG_2489.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sw2AqAIWfnI/AAAAAAAAA3I/1ZFI6dwCK_k/IMG_2488.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 183px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kJdKozOX0as/Sw2AqAIWfnI/AAAAAAAAA3I/1ZFI6dwCK_k/IMG_2488.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This lesson presents students with a challenge to create balance between positive and negative space in their composition. First, we cut up pieces of cardboard we had lying around. Then, students added torn strips of masking tape to create a tree-like design on their cardboard. We then sponge-painted fall colors on top of our tape and cardboard. The following class, we ripped off the tape to reveal a tree form and added white and black charcoal for highlights and shadows on our trees. Students were pleased to see how "realistic" their trees turned out.Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-86866264662300350722009-08-17T17:55:00.000-07:002009-08-17T19:53:26.630-07:00Parque Nacional La Tigra<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9-MrstZvO4vJWx710xoZcghduosqVNXoW73S4Jr6OkFD2IUVIs8k3Smo8LJexGH3DxxsyMROd_FGCcDdaI8p2loaigu6_YNmss_FkO7PdFSHtdzTwmtgxTkQbHISf6hmfNPIHz5vxmU/s1600-h/Tegus+week+3+067.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9-MrstZvO4vJWx710xoZcghduosqVNXoW73S4Jr6OkFD2IUVIs8k3Smo8LJexGH3DxxsyMROd_FGCcDdaI8p2loaigu6_YNmss_FkO7PdFSHtdzTwmtgxTkQbHISf6hmfNPIHz5vxmU/s320/Tegus+week+3+067.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371124447348721426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb51X8RE7v5HwuHTdvpalTzMpXjkyrc8p9fCg6qqP6RUx8rBws-McPKBS4rzvX8ROAKcT2AQhE3C8tWUMRKCjytpKxQNmUw60PcPwsvU_PXJCa16ZVbc67_EKvBCyEmbku2gk9c7NWYg/s1600-h/Tegus+week+3+091.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-yJzs_EGLNFZDT0r8V6VqbHaQQgNA4KlyArifsvJjsuVjh9lulZSG_Ml5mUYRPhHUGDr6jkChy544XUz1wqC2R0eJy9bENsjyrcWVr-GZon8UfB7rS-l7x1xguyyK78PLZKPopywKBw/s1600-h/Tegus+week+3+075.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-yJzs_EGLNFZDT0r8V6VqbHaQQgNA4KlyArifsvJjsuVjh9lulZSG_Ml5mUYRPhHUGDr6jkChy544XUz1wqC2R0eJy9bENsjyrcWVr-GZon8UfB7rS-l7x1xguyyK78PLZKPopywKBw/s320/Tegus+week+3+075.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371102336952251762" /></a><div>La Tigra is just a short bus ride up the mountain from Teguc, but it might as well be a world away. The bus would have been impossible to locate without the help of a local family who drove us to a gas station near the Guanacaste area of the city. We were sitting comfortably on our school bus when a group of 50 boys joined us on board with their scout leaders. I went from my own seat to 3 of us with one of the kids riding on my lap! <div>Once at the end of the road in El Hatillo, we got a ride to the park entrance up a steep hill. We hiked to the Cascades (waterfall) and across the park to San Juancito in about 5 1/2 hours with breaks. On our descent, we walked through lovely El Rosario, the first town in Central America to receive electricity during the mining boom. Now all that's booming in El Rosario is the reggeaton from one of the two pupuserias (store/cafes) on the hill. La Tigra is a breathtaking and I can't wait to return!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoaCWFNeGoc12jDsOwq3zwWJFfwHuz_GuegSV7_mqEtj8nY5F1zv_qFKQGeHeu8-iwhCWUFsaAKqQSUP11Deh9NwQVMj_0ww_-v2aSsaUKfnW7Hp-D-9F3KKcszW3ZyGIftGx6z4kqSg/s1600-h/Tegus+week+3+100.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoaCWFNeGoc12jDsOwq3zwWJFfwHuz_GuegSV7_mqEtj8nY5F1zv_qFKQGeHeu8-iwhCWUFsaAKqQSUP11Deh9NwQVMj_0ww_-v2aSsaUKfnW7Hp-D-9F3KKcszW3ZyGIftGx6z4kqSg/s320/Tegus+week+3+100.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371108622335305122" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KlYad0CwtYvdtKBuz_K3UB7S6bO84RjaXhhtFIP-A3oCLQ6UOIwLa27GAdZqGn_1lqv6Qvyn4z3IMEX-YKltSzITslfLD2z5jaoxtvIzu00aL3V2jHpURIKJHuNK3Tu6Nlc5B8BSIs4/s1600-h/Tegus+week+3+099.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KlYad0CwtYvdtKBuz_K3UB7S6bO84RjaXhhtFIP-A3oCLQ6UOIwLa27GAdZqGn_1lqv6Qvyn4z3IMEX-YKltSzITslfLD2z5jaoxtvIzu00aL3V2jHpURIKJHuNK3Tu6Nlc5B8BSIs4/s320/Tegus+week+3+099.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371106982113048706" style="float: left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHI_rh_GP0e0c2ec_1h6Nfic9xJKJEdZUQfrTYNTKCepEwaU0ZvgfWlwU-s5pnMhjx7Gj7snuhjFyhQz7zYSakZPJwmH9xYRST3Opf2FZ90vFMAgrW0MsILu1ZQuN4noNvPAWomP4rbuQ/s320/tegus+week+one+047.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365536385138646178" /></a><br />It's been almost a week here in my new home of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. There is a nice quote that I have already heard that I think will take me far: "If things don't go your way, flip the tortilla the other way." If this week is any indication, I will be flipping a lot. However, I have a tentative home that I might get to move into this week, and I am reporting for my new art teacher position tomorrow. There is a great deal of inspiration for art here in the fantasy-like gardens, mountains, and amazing people that I have already come to love.Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-76239774076245776962009-05-29T12:45:00.000-07:002009-05-29T13:01:27.724-07:00'Easy' still-life for elementary kids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrPRC-qPB9h7XoLACZV7rPoMLyJVo_wx6nuEZwOTJH9VweFHWPxWDVarPB1nN-4lUCjGDyw8vBoax1pGTzK8sJImU_I5z74EHrX4lQRrmqWo8qSZRo-qwcqA481KdTA-8544qf6AM1U0/s1600-h/DSCF0032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrPRC-qPB9h7XoLACZV7rPoMLyJVo_wx6nuEZwOTJH9VweFHWPxWDVarPB1nN-4lUCjGDyw8vBoax1pGTzK8sJImU_I5z74EHrX4lQRrmqWo8qSZRo-qwcqA481KdTA-8544qf6AM1U0/s320/DSCF0032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341338459752529650" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMExDv8zmYzpXkFAgfyOKBjgrg_XCdkCUcd97ipoGdJnR6A1eoGHrgmwbsYED47y4CuJDCGiLptQKlJVDyschRjwE5XSCHxd4xL8Bbced41vFn3Lkoq4NPEfd4NiadONtU_rjCTrZSXx0/s1600-h/DSCF0083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMExDv8zmYzpXkFAgfyOKBjgrg_XCdkCUcd97ipoGdJnR6A1eoGHrgmwbsYED47y4CuJDCGiLptQKlJVDyschRjwE5XSCHxd4xL8Bbced41vFn3Lkoq4NPEfd4NiadONtU_rjCTrZSXx0/s320/DSCF0083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341338068444539042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmzzzPPWi-9h54q4tuDlCvbu_MHdXt2X7SPbQSJfxLXtRBvJ4_7CT5gPrcriiKWnlHVCsY9eIL_hdy_X0soCtQ58p2Bcw_0etzHA3LXNc6EDJZHF7Dg81vG-ewKmO1Ny-OQSI6g3V_JY/s1600-h/DSCF0081.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmzzzPPWi-9h54q4tuDlCvbu_MHdXt2X7SPbQSJfxLXtRBvJ4_7CT5gPrcriiKWnlHVCsY9eIL_hdy_X0soCtQ58p2Bcw_0etzHA3LXNc6EDJZHF7Dg81vG-ewKmO1Ny-OQSI6g3V_JY/s320/DSCF0081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341337639356564770" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DELRluIVRLuvx25QmlFpjZLEk4uyzovDU6txXmpUvsGUficVm17Sr7_sEOWfV-cfULaxURb4tX_ytfm5oyk6_EkDVQfKfJVbI72pLqFr-ZIuEkJfcOs5-wE1IDboIgRaP44oZ2eWwAA/s1600-h/DSCF0042.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DELRluIVRLuvx25QmlFpjZLEk4uyzovDU6txXmpUvsGUficVm17Sr7_sEOWfV-cfULaxURb4tX_ytfm5oyk6_EkDVQfKfJVbI72pLqFr-ZIuEkJfcOs5-wE1IDboIgRaP44oZ2eWwAA/s320/DSCF0042.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341337308051927602" border="0" /></a><br />Older elementary students like to get things just right when it comes to drawing from life. We talked about symmetry and practiced drawing simple objects like a bottle, but we only drew ONE side with a charcoal pencil. Then, we fold paper in half and rubbed the back of our drawing with a pencil to make a perfectly symmetrical bottle! Students felt so proud that their bottle looked 'real'. Next, we shaded one side dark, the other light for an instantly 3d effect. Once we'd drawn and shaded our objects with pastels, we arranged them in a balanced composition on 2 pieces of wall-paper taken from an old sample book. The result--a truly life-like still-life that gives students pride.Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-50574864977280535992008-11-10T13:55:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:04:13.206-08:00"Putting our Trash to Work" A fourth grade recycled art project<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsixjQSEbtQJERE0iJp1HPPCfDhnpbGeQBzThl887aXjc0LiGDXRdPdGtEOA7c7iahTxHHtuPeM30tC9YlkNs1FDXLH5OdZOaP88UOTqwu9mDYjrYdbYnqYquNe8w1sC3gNEW2H7vKPmU/s1600-h/IMG_5796.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsixjQSEbtQJERE0iJp1HPPCfDhnpbGeQBzThl887aXjc0LiGDXRdPdGtEOA7c7iahTxHHtuPeM30tC9YlkNs1FDXLH5OdZOaP88UOTqwu9mDYjrYdbYnqYquNe8w1sC3gNEW2H7vKPmU/s320/IMG_5796.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267159962139071394" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGfki-s0r13hTJoE0Jxg_OqXMHnHQ_HoWX1-c1vZVyb1Cu9vYuGUNJim3sPet2b7wfFJuwnZBckobGaivvJTJo7nElhc-rsebg1LLoidPudw6dTc94RYcl3uAqwsRpAJxnIocGB5C2HYI/s1600-h/IMG_5807.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGfki-s0r13hTJoE0Jxg_OqXMHnHQ_HoWX1-c1vZVyb1Cu9vYuGUNJim3sPet2b7wfFJuwnZBckobGaivvJTJo7nElhc-rsebg1LLoidPudw6dTc94RYcl3uAqwsRpAJxnIocGB5C2HYI/s320/IMG_5807.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267159744856480450" border="0" /></a><br />In honor of Earth Day last spring, fourth grade students spent 9 weeks finding out where all of the materials come from that go into an art project. We discovered which resources are renewable (pencils, paper) and which are not (plastic paint bottles, cups, glue bottles, etc). Students set out to make a sculpture entirely from found and recycled materials. The only catch was that their scultpure had to have a "job." <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6tQf4K8OeyqIxXEJZuycH2RkruMnBipQGnCSW_21XBRvGxUs6Su7_gOiiUTdXNd4WGKEA0owi1gTSkuKE_Enh4RtNJ9Jipe7clgBt_yRAIai_Ui80_Y9hUQV74BTAXlYWa1FKlsj3kY/s1600-h/IMG_5790.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6tQf4K8OeyqIxXEJZuycH2RkruMnBipQGnCSW_21XBRvGxUs6Su7_gOiiUTdXNd4WGKEA0owi1gTSkuKE_Enh4RtNJ9Jipe7clgBt_yRAIai_Ui80_Y9hUQV74BTAXlYWa1FKlsj3kY/s320/IMG_5790.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267160210150155330" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSz7OMzH8k9QO2nx0lFDuMWXn6pCYKOBa75ZErVhUfeEBI2GeG-b3xvL7EokmlXdd2KJXb9XgKhyhHKm1HTA4NEH50TPI4g5cYgGK8oEmPv2S9fWu3qH2AteG1MjbpdryGUUidFC3jNQ/s1600-h/IMG_5781.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSz7OMzH8k9QO2nx0lFDuMWXn6pCYKOBa75ZErVhUfeEBI2GeG-b3xvL7EokmlXdd2KJXb9XgKhyhHKm1HTA4NEH50TPI4g5cYgGK8oEmPv2S9fWu3qH2AteG1MjbpdryGUUidFC3jNQ/s320/IMG_5781.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267160556399622674" border="0" /></a>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543529469943488794.post-72373046579094311472008-11-02T09:54:00.000-08:002008-11-02T10:24:41.996-08:00Pet PortraitsHere is a series of dog portraits I made for a friend. 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height: 259px;" src="http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/kallie_thornberry/upload/calder.circus.poster.jpg" border="0" /><br />The Whitney Museum currently has a show featuring Alexander Calder's Circus project. Read more about Calder and the exhibit in the New York Times <strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/arts/design/12shat.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=design">HERE</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17cald.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">HERE</a></strong>. Last spring, my Second and Third grade students studied the work of Alexander Calder and learned about his fascination with the circus. Then, students used their knowledge of Balance and Motion to create an amazing Flying Circus with household items such as toilet paper rolls, straws, yarn, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and Styrofoam. <table class="border" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="60%" width="720"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top" width="250"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </td> <td width="0%"><img src="http://classroom.leanderisd.org/images/ten_x_ten.gif" border="0" height="10" width="3" /></td> <td class="color1" width="0%"><img src="http://classroom.leanderisd.org/images/ten_x_ten.gif" border="0" height="2" width="1" /></td> <td width="0%"><img src="http://classroom.leanderisd.org/images/ten_x_ten.gif" border="0" height="10" width="3" /></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"> <tbody><tr><td height="10" width="100%"><br /></td></tr> <tr><td width="100%"><br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"><div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top" width="2%"><br /></td> <td rowspan="2" valign="top" width="2%"><img src="http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/kallie_thornberry/images/ten_x_ten.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Kallie Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06531829510216328962noreply@blogger.com2