Title Details

The Author

HELEN D. HUME is an artist and art educator who taught for more than 30 years in the St. Louis region and international schools. Her students range from preschool through the graduate level, including apprentice teachers. She is a board member of the St. Louis Artists' Guild and the author of seven books in arts education, including The Art Teacher's Book of Lists from Jossey-Bass.

About This Book v

The Author vi

Acknowledgments vii

Chapter 1: Let’s Teac h Art 1

Why We Teach Art 1

Whole-Brain Development • Character Development Whom We Teach 2

Every Student, Daily • Students with Disabilities • Attention-Seeking Students • Gifted Students

What Children Should Know and Be Able to Do 3

Skill Building • Grade Level Characteristics: The Kindergarten Child; The First-Grade Child; The Second-Grade Child; The Third-Grade Child; The Fourth-Grade Child; The Fifth-Grade Child; The Sixth-Grade Student; The Seventh-Grade Student; The Eighth-Grade Student • Adaptations for Primary Children

Adaptations in Art for Special-Needs Students 23

General Suggestions • The Student with Impaired Vision • The Student with Autism • The Student with Impaired Hearing • The Student with Motor Impairment • The Student with Behavioral Disabilities • The Student with Developmental Disabilities

How We Teach—Thoughts on Teaching Art 26

Encouraging Creativity • Relationships with Students

Where We Teach 28

The Regular Classroom • The Art Classroom • From a Cart

The Basics for an Art Specialist 29

Communicating with Classroom Teachers • Setting Routines • Using Seating Charts • Rewarding Good Behavior • Controlling Noise • Organizing the Classroom • Managing Equipment • Storing Artwork • Maintaining Portfolios • Displaying Student Work Outside the Art Room • Signing Work • Making Labels • Preparing Student Notebooks • Cleaning Up • Dismissing Students • Bringing in New Art Materials • Recycling

Parent and Community Relations 33

Parent Volunteers • Newsletters • Student Recognition

Public Relations Guidelines 36

Where Art Information Might Be Seen • Before Contacting the Newspaper • What Is Newsworthy? What Makes a Unique Story? • Photo Guidelines

Tips on Photographing Art 38

Digital Photography • Setting Up Artwork to Photograph • Photographing Artwork in Process Tips on Safety 40

General Suggestions • Working with Clay • Care of Cutting Tools • Equipment • Recommended Materials

Tips on Creating Art Bulletin Boards 42

Materials • Hints • Suggested Themes

Tips on Matting Student Artwork 44

Materials • Personalize Purchased Mats • Things to Keep in Mind • The Easy Way • Cutting a Mat

Chapter 2: What We Teac h 46

Personal Expression 46

Individualism and Problem Solving 47

The Big Idea • Pop Culture • Service Learning

Exploring the Elements of Art and Principles of Design 48

Line 49

Color 50

Value 51

Space 52

Shape and Form 53

Texture 54

Repetition 55

Balance 56

Emphasis 57

Contrast 58

Unity 59

Topics We Teach 60

Unit Suggestions

Content Connections 61

Foreign Language • Language Arts • Math • Music • Science • Social Studies Celebrations 65

Themes Based on Seasons of the Year 66

Tips on Writing Art Lesson Plans 67

National Visual Arts Standards (K–4) 69

National Visual Arts Standards (5–8) 71

DBAE (Discipline-Based Art Education) 73

Art Production • Art History • Art Criticism/Analysis • Aesthetic Awareness • Discipline-Based Art Education Standards

Art Lesson Plan 75

Assessment 76

Authentic Assessment • Portfolios • Written Work, Journals or Sketchbooks, Self-Assessment•Classroom Critiques or Discussions • Scoring Guide or Rubric • Interviews

Chapter 3: Fun with Art History and Appreciation 78

Bring Art History to Life: Timelines 79

Timeline #1: 30,000 b.c.–a.d. 1 (Handout) 80

Art Projects for Integrated Learning, Timeline #1 81

Timeline #2: a.d. 1–1150 (Handout) 83

Art Projects for Integrated Learning, Timeline #2 84

Timeline #3: 1150–1650 (Handout) 86

Art Projects for Integrated Learning, Timeline #3 87

Timeline #4: 1650–1900 (Handout) 89

Art Projects for Integrated Learning, Timeline #4 90

Timeline #5: 1900–Present (Handout) 92

Art Projects for Integrated Learning, Timeline #5 93

Using Art Reproductions 95

Portrait Gallery • Token Response • Draw an Artwork from a Description • Scavenger Hunt • Compare and Contrast • Bulletin Board • Be a Live Painting • Gallery Curators

Art Activities with Postcards 97

Sorting and Matching • Edges, Lines, and Colors • Extend a Postcard • Expand a Postcard • Postcard Puzzles

Purchased Educational Games 100

Art Game Vendors • Word Games • Jumbles • Mix and Match Talking About Art: A Gallery Experience 101

A Real Museum Visit

Gallery Walk 102

Aesthetics 103

Writing with Art 103

Writing Projects • Conversations with a Drawing • Collage-Writing Exercise • Writing Poetry About Art Project 3-1.
Mandala (colored pencil, ballpoint pen) 108

Alternative Project: A Journey Through My Life

Project 3-2. Write and Illustrate a Myth (watercolor crayons) 110

Alternative Project: Make a Good-Luck Symbol • Content Connections: Social Studies and Science—Circles
and Standing Stones • Calendar • Multicultural Connection: Storytelling Project 3-3.

The Art Sketchbook or Journal (black ink marker, colored pencil, or watercolor) 113

Chapter 4: Pa per 115

Introduction 115

Project 4-1. Imagination Station (construction paper) 116

Alternative for Younger Students: Imaginative Animals

Changing Paper (Handout) 118

Project 4-2. Portrait Heads in Paper (paper manipulation and paper cutting) 119

Alternative Projects: Torn-Paper Face Collage; Bas-Relief Portraits; Shaped Construction Paper Three-Dimensional Masks • Content Connections: Language Arts—Give It a Life • Social Studies—Real People Portraits

Portrait Heads (Handout) 122

Collage 123

General Guidelines for Working in Collage

Project 4-3. Collage Cityscape (corrugated cardboard collage) 125

Alternative Projects: Paint a Cityscape; Cityscape or Torn-Paper Collage • Content Connections: Language Arts—The Old Town • Social Studies—Mapping; Evolution of a City

Project 4-4. Flower Garden (fadeless paper collage) 128

Content Connection: Science—Plant Identification and Seasonal Growth; Marine Plant Life

Project 4-5. Geometric Cut-Out Animals (collage) 130

Adaptation for Younger Students: Shape Relationships • Alternative Project: Paper Cut-Out Collages—Natural Forms • Content Connection: Science—Extinct Animals

Project 4-6. Story Quilt (construction paper collage) 132

Alternative Project: Muslin Quilt • Content Connections: Language Arts—Write the Story of Your Quilt Block • Mathematics—Math Problems Quilt; Computer-Designed Quilt Block; Traditional Geometric Blocks • Science—Creatures and Their Environments Quilt Blocks; Favorite Food Quilt • Social Studies—“ My State” Quilt Blocks; Cultural Quilt Blocks; Transportation Quilt Blocks

Project 4-7. Handmade Paper 136

Content Connections: Language Arts—Recipes, Poems, Stories About Paper • Science—Paper in the Egyptian and Chinese Styles • Social Studies—Timeline: Development of Paper

Project 4-8. Marbleized Paper (acrylic paint) 140

Alternative Projects: Liquid Starch; Marbleize with Pastels; Traditional Marbleizing with Oil on Water

Making Books 143

Project 4-9. Pop-Up Greeting Cards (paper) 144

Pop-Ups (Handout) 146

Project 4-10. The Art Book, an Accordion-Folded Pop-Up (mixed media) 147

Content Connections: Language Arts—Haiku, Alphabet, or Poetry Book; Quotation or Story • Science—A Nature Book • Foreign Language—Story Book in a Foreign Language • Social Studies—Honor an Ancestor

Project 4-11. Personal Nature Journal (spiral-bound or copy paper) 151

Adaptation for Primary Students: Copy Paper Journal

Project 4-12. The Shaped Book (copy paper) 155

Adaptations for Younger Students: One-Fold Book; Dictated Story

Chapter 5: Drawing with Pencil, Pa stels, Crayons, and Markers 158

Project 5-1. The Bestiary; Animal Drawings (latex house paint and colored pencil) 159

Alternative Project: Mythical Creatures • Content Connections: Language Arts—Animal Journal; Animal Personality Story • Science—Animal Behavior

Animals (Handout) 162

Other Classifications of Animals (Handout) 163

Project 5-2. Signing Alphabet; Drawing the Hand (pencil and colored pencil) 164

Signing Alphabet (Handout) 166

Pastels , Crayons , and Chalk 167

Project 5-3. Still Life (Oil pastel resist with fluorescent markers) 168

Project 5-4. Making the Small Monumental (pastel) 170

Alternative Project: The Whole Room and Your Hands

Project 5-5. The “Wild Beasts” (The Fauves) (roofing paper, glue, oil pastels) 172

Alternative Project: Expressionistic Group Murals

Project 5-6. Hidden Birds (crayon etching, ink over crayon or oil pastel) 174

Content Connections: Science—Species in Danger • Social Studies—Artists and Pioneers

Project 5-7. I Saw a Ship Come Sailing In (chalk and crayon transfer) 176

Alternative Project: Scientific Illustration • Content Connection: Social Studies—Flat Earth Society; Sailing Ship History

Markers 179

Project 5-8. Folded Tissue Designs (watercolor marker) 180

Lines and Patterns (Handout) 182

Project 5-9. Geometry and Renaissance Art 183

Alternative Project: Tondo Paintings • Content Connection: Mathematics—Golden Rectangle

Project 5-10. In the Manner of . . . Artistic Interpretation (pastel, colored pencil or acrylic paint) 186

Alternative Projects: Line Drawing in an Artist’s Style; Put Your Face Right Here; Carnival Backdrop Paintings

Project 5-11. Stuffed Fish (Overwriter Markers®) 189

Alternative Project: Stuffed Paper Sculptures

Project 5-12. Tessellations (marker) 191

Project 5-13. I Can Draw a Straight Line (nature drawings with fine-line marker and ruler) 193

Alternative Project: Line Portrait on a Computer

Project 5-14. Postcard Art—Put It in the Mail (mixed media—black marker, ink, watercolor) 195

Content Connection: Social Studies—International Pen-Pals

Project 5-15. Why Not Be a Cartoonist? 197

Alternative Projects: The One-Frame Cartoon; Caricature

Comic Shorthand (Handout) 199

Chapter 6: Pa inting 200

Tempera or Acrylic Paint 200

Project 6-1. Personal Rainbow Color Wheel (tempera) 202

Adaptation for Younger Students: Primary and Secondary Colors • Alternative Projects: Rainbow Wave: Moving Figure; Group Project Color Wheels • Content Connection: Science—Color in Light; Color in Pigment

Project 6-2. Enlarge a Masterpiece (tempera) 205

Adaptation for Younger Students: Black and White Enlargement • Alternative Projects: Project It on the Wall; Put It on the Ceiling; Oil Pastel Enlargement on Tagboard; Substitute Your Own Face • Content Connections: Science Environmental Mural with Animal Life • Social Studies—Schoolwide Theme Mural

Project 6-3. Legs, Wings, Claws, and Antennas (tempera) 208

Content Connections: Science—Flying and Crawling Creatures • Language Arts—Short Story About “My Creature”

Project 6-4. Winter Whites: Animals of the Far North and South (tempera) 210

Content Connection: Science—Winter Camouflage; Hibernation Habits

Project 6-5. The Mysterious Jungle (acrylic or tempera) 212

Alternative Project: Oil Pastel and Black Tempera Resist

Watercolor 215

Project 6-6. Watercolor Chart (experiments with techniques and media) 216

Adaptation for Younger Students: Experiments in Mark-Making • Alternative Project: Still Life with Special Color Scheme • Content Connection: Science—Pigments

Project 6-7. “Leaf” It to Me (watercolor) 220

Project 6-8. The Old House (watercolor) 222

Content Connections: Language Arts—Describe Your Own Home • Mathematics—Measure Your Room and Find the Area

Project 6-9. Spectacular Vernacular (water-soluble marker and watercolor) 224

Content Connections: Language Arts—Class Preservation Book • Social Studies—Preservation Conversation

Project 6-10. Sunflowers and Irises (water-soluble crayons or Payons®) 227

Adaptation for Younger Students: From Seed to Flower • Alternative Project: Giant Flowers • Content Connections: Science—Plant Your Subject; Botanical Drawing; Plant Studies • Language Arts—Tell Me About van Gogh

Project 6-11. Weaving with the Happy Accident (weaving with watercolor and mixed media) 230

Alternative Projects: Landscape or Seascape; Woven Paper Basket • Content Connection: Social Studies—Paper Weaving

Project 6-12. Painting to Music (crayon [or Craypas] and watercolor resist) 233

Content Connection: Language Arts—Write to Music

Project 6-13. Dressed for Sport, a Self-Portrait (watercolor resist) 236

Content Connections: Health and Physical Education—Pick a Sport; Sports Heroes • Mathematics—Sports Statistics; Design a Scoreboard

Project 6-14. Fantasy or Surrealistic Art (mixed media) 239

Content Connection: Language Arts—Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives; Stream-of- Consciousness Writing

Project 6-15. “Sell Your Product” Poster (mixed media) 242

Content Connection: Social Studies—Analyze Marketing Strategies

Chapter 7: Printmaking 245

General Information 245

Inking Stations • Mess Control • Preparing Dampened Paper for Monoprinting or Embossing • Inking Techniques • Multiple Color Prints • Registration • Printing Techniques • Signing Prints • Storing Plates • Transferring a Design • Prints Are Backward! • What to Print On • Improving a Print • What to Do When Prints Are Done

Methods of Printmaking 249

Collage Prints • Embossed Prints • Monotype • Monoprint • Printing “Plates” for Monoprints or Monotypes • Relief Prints • Rubbings (Frottage) • Serigraphy (Silkscreen Print) • Stenciling • Intaglio Printing (Etching Process) • Stamping

Project 7-1. Colorful Tiles (combination printing with brayers and stamps) 253

Alternative Project: Stamped Cityscape

Project 7-2. Relief Prints (modular designs with lino-cuts) 256

Alternative Projects: Repeat Pattern; Eraser Stamp or Watercolor Marker; Group Print; Reduction- Relief Print; Incised Soft Surfaces

Project 7-3. Provincetown Prints (print, watercolor marker) 259

Multicultural Project: Adinkra Cloth Stamps • Content Connection: Language Arts—Alphabet Stamps

Project 7-4. Collagraph 262

Adaptations for Younger Students: Polymer-Medium Monotype; Flattened Straws • Alternative Projects: Aluminum-Foil Relief; Inner-Tube Printing; Tape Printing; Matboard and Gesso Print

Project 7-5. The Monotype, in the Manner of Degas (water-based ink) 265

Alternative Projects: Subtractive Print and Ghost Image; Paper-to-Paper or Plastic-to-Paper Monotypes

Project 7-6. Matboard Monotypes (matboard, water-based markers) 267

Alternative Project: YUPO® Synthetic Paper Printing Plate

Project 7-7. Three Trees (drypoint etching on plastic) 270

Content Connections: Social Studies—Scrimshaw • Science—Name That Tree!

Chapter 8: Multicultural Art 273

Traditional and Nontraditional Techniques 273

Universal Symbols (Handout) 274

Project 8-1. Aboriginal “Dreamings” (tempera) 275

Alternative Project: Bark Paintings • Content Connection: Language Arts—Write a Walkabout

Aboriginal Symbols (Handout) 278

Project 8-2. Walking Cane (papier mâché formed on sticks) 279

Adaptation for Younger Students: Stick Snakes and Lizards • Content Connection: Social Studies— Learn About Folk Art

Project 8-3. The Three Perfections: Chinese Calligraphy, Poetry, and Painting (ink on paper) 281

Adaptation for Younger Students: Chinese Fable

Traditional Asian Brushstrokes (Handout) 284

Project 8-4. Japanese Sumi-e—Seven Shades of Black (ink and watercolor on paper) 285

Content Connection: Language Arts—Haiku Poetry

Project 8-5. Japanese Fish Printing (ink and watercolor) 288

Alternative Project: Foamcore Fish Print • Content Connections: Science—Underwater Habitats; Scientific Fish Illustration • Language Arts—Haiku Poetry Celebration; Rainbow Fish

Project 8-6. Mexican Folk Art Animals (papier mâché on aluminum-foil armature) 291

Adaptation for Younger Students: Papier Mâché Snakes • Alternative Project: Balsa Foam® Carvings

Project 8-7. Mexican Sun (colored pencil or crayon) 294

Alternative Project: Paper Batik Suns • Content Connection: Mathematics—Compasses and Protractors

Project 8-8. Day of the Dead Altar (mixed media) 297

Content Connection: Social Studies—Day of the Dead Research and Report

Project 8-9. Costa Rican Ox-Cart Wheels 300

Adaptation for Younger Students: Paint a Plate with Radial Symmetry • Alternative Project: Costa Rican Tray • Content Connections: Mathematics—Hex Signs • Science—Tropical Plants and Birds • Social Studies—Circular Designs in Other Cultures

Project 8-10. Iznik Tiles (cardboard, markers or colored pencil) 304

Alternative Project: Ceramic Tiles • Content Connection: Mathematics—Tessellations

Project 8-11. Pueblo (edge stencils with pastel) 307

Alternative Project: Pueblo Boxes

Project 8-12. Piasa Bird (Thunderbird) (marker) 309

Content Connection: Social Studies—Petroglyph Comparisons

Native American Bird and Animal Symbols (Handout) 311

Project 8-13. Tablita (cardboard and tempera) 312

Alternative Project: Corn-Dance Sticks • Content Connection: Mathematics—Computer Graphics Tablitas

Project 8-14. Wearing Blankets 315

Alternative Projects: Yarn Weaving on Cardboard; All-Class Woven Wearing Blanket • Content Connections: Language Arts—Family Tradition • Mathematics— Graph-Paper Blanket; Computer Graphics Blanket • Social Studies—Railroads and Native American Art

Project 8-15. Inuit Carvings with Soap 319

Alternative Project: Plaster Carving • Content Connections: Science—Arctic Animals • Social Studies—Modern Life in the Far North

Project 8-16. Paper-Cuts Around the World 322

Content Connections: Mathematics—Symmetry • Language Arts—Heirloom Certificate

Chapter 9: Ceramics 326

Some Considerations for Working with Clay 327

Hand-Building • Distributing the Clay • Wedging • Conditioning Clay • Working Consistency • Identifying the Artwork • Storing Clay Overnight or Longer • Safe Storage • Clay Throwing (Around the Room) • Working Surfaces • Tool Substitutes • Cleanup • Firing • Repairing • Finishing

Definitions of Ceramic Terms (Handout) 330

Project 9-1. Japanese Tea Bowl (clay pinch pot) 331

Content Connection: Social Studies—Have a Tea Ceremony

Project 9-2. Double Pinch Pot (clay) 334

Alternative Projects: Multiple Pinch Pots; Pinch Pot People

Project 9-3. Native American Coiled Pottery 336

Alternative Project: Coils Formed in a Bowl

Project 9-4. Coil-Built Face Pots, A Southern Tradition (clay) 340

Adaptation for Younger Students: Face Pots Using the Pinch Pot Method • Alternative Project: Memory Jugs • Content Connection: Social Studies—Peruvian Portrait Pots

Slab Construction 343

Project 9-5. Ceramic Architectural Birdhouse (slab method) 345

Adaptation for Younger Students: Birdhouse Picture Tile • Alternative Project:

Coil-Method Birdhouse • Content Connections: Science—Migratory Patterns • Social Studies—State Buildings

Project 9-6. Ceramic Mural (ceramics) 348

Alternative Project: Glazed Tiles • Modeling in Clay

Project 9-7. Portrait Heads (sculpture in clay) 352

Alternative Projects: Clay Portrait for a Magazine Cover; A Self-Portrait with Your Favorite Things; Portrait with Attitude

Project 9-8. Bas-Relief Family Sculpture (modeling clay on cardboard) 356

Alternative Project: Paint with Modeling Clay • Content Connection: Social Studies— Commemorative Presentation Medal; U.S. Government Treaties with Native Americans; Coin Design

Chapter 10: Three-Dimensional Design 359

Project 10-1. Rolled Paper-Tube Sculpture (copy paper) 361

Alternative Projects: Newspaper Tube Sculpture; All-Class Tube Sculpture • Content Connection: Mathematics—
House-of-Straw Group Project

Project 10-2. Geometric Units (tagboard or chipboard) 364

Adaptations for Younger Students: Weird Geometric Shapes; Glued Toothpick Geometric Shapes • Alternative Projects: Group Sculpture of Geometric Shapes; Construct a Famous Building with Geometric Shapes

Geometric Units (Handout) 366

Project 10-3. Plaster of Paris “Bag Molds” (plaster and plastic bags) 367

Alternative Projects: Larger Forms; Plaster Leaf or Hand Prints • Content Connection: Science— Measure Chemical Reaction Times; Sand Casting Mask -Making 370

Masks as Sculptural Objects • Themes and Materials for Masks • Armatures for the Masks • To Display Finished Masks

Masks of the World (Handout) 373

Masks of North America (Handout) 374

Project 10-4. Symmetrical Paper Masks (construction paper) 375

Content Connection: Language Arts—Write a Biographical Sketch

Project 10-5. Northwest Coast Repoussé Masks (aluminum tooling foil) 378

Content Connection: Social Studies—Special Festivals

Project 10-6. Aluminum Can Masks (recycled cans) 381

Alternative Project: Tin Hanging Ornaments • Content Connections: Social Studies—The Universal Language of Masks • Language Arts—Masks of One Cultural Group

Project 10-7. Cajun Screen-Wire Masks (screen-wire) 384

Alternative Project: Pitchy Patchy Puppets

Papier Mâch é 387

Preparation • Papier Mâché Animal • Gigantic Papier Mâché Masks • Frontlets

Project 10-8. Papier Mâché Milk Jug Masks 389

Alternative Projects: Paint the Jug; Plaster Gauze Face Masks • Content Connections: Social Studies—Mask Research Project • Language Arts—Write a Play

Project 10-9. Greek Vase or Chalice (papier mâché formed on soft-drink bottles) 394

Content Connection: Language Arts—Create a Myth

Project 10-10. Scrap-Wood Assemblage 397

Project 10-11. American Kitsch Restaurant or Hotel 399

Alternative Project: Architectural Rendering

Chapter 11: Architecture, the Built Environment 402

Research and Writing Activities in Architecture 403

Content Connection: Social Studies—Historical Research About Your City; Government in the City, State, or Nation; Archaeology; Architectural Timeline; The Old Homeplace; Houses, Then and Now; Talk About Buildings; Architectural Roots; Cornerstone; Reproduce a Foreign City • Content Connection: Language Arts—Sentimental Journey; Your Favorite Room

Art Activities Based on Architecture 405

Architectural Tour Field Trip • Corner Lot Park • Tourist Map • Stained-Glass Window • Victorian House Doorstops or Bookends • Five-Story Building • Rubbings • Architectural Stencils • Architectural Stamps • A Ghost in the House • Record a Decorative Artifact from Your Time

Architectural Definitions (Handout) 408

Project 11-1. City Planning (construction paper, milk cartons) 410

Adaptations for Younger Students: City Planning; City Buildings • Alternative Project: Skyscrapers: Nighttime in the City • Content Connection: Social Studies—Neighborhood Map; In the Future

Project 11-2. Everyone Is an Architect (mixed media) 413

Adaptation for Younger Students: Lunch-Bag Houses • Alternative Projects: Take a Chance; Inspiration from a Shell • Content Connections: Language Arts—Design a Dream Home • Social Studies— Historic Village

Project 11-3. Open the Door! (ink or marker on paper) 417

Alternative Project: The Door Competition • Content Connection: Language Arts—Opening Doors in Life

Project 11-4. Victorian Houses (bleach and oil pastels on dark paper) 419

Adaptation for Younger Students: Put Yourself in the Picture • Content Connections: Social Studies—The
Victorian Era • Language Arts—House History Book • Mathematics—Compass, Ruler, and Protractor

Project 11-5. Castle (watercolor and fine-line water-based marker) 423

Adaptation for Younger Students: Folded-and-Cut-Paper Palace • Alternative Project: Cardboard Walled City • Content Connections: Social Studies—Medieval Professions • Mathematics—Two-Point Perspective Castle Drawing

Project 11-6. Facade, the Front Side (tooling foil repoussé) 427

Alternative Projects: Aluminum-Foil Facades; Bas-Relief Foam Butcher Tray Facades; Ceramic Facades

Project 11-7. In Your Own Little Corner in Your Own Little Room (pencil perspective drawing) 430

Adaptation for Younger Students: Draw Your Surroundings • Alternative Projects: Interior Design; Stage Set; Redesign a Closet • Content Connection: Mathematics—Cityscape with One-Point Perspective; Computer Graphics Interior

Project 11-8. Interior Design, My Apartment (shoeboxes, mixed media) 433

Alternative Project: Cultural Influences

Project 11-9. The Architectural Competition: Making Models (mixed media) 436

Alternative Projects: Foamboard or Cardboard Model; Found-Object Blueprint and Design; Accessorizing
a Building

Project 11-10. Design a Chair 439

Project 11-11. Art Deco Building Design (tagboard collagraph print) 442

Alternative Project: Paper-Strip Art Deco • Content Connection: Social Studies—The 1930s and 1940s; Aviation History

Art Deco Architecture (Handout) 444

Project 11-12. Shiny Skin: Aluminum-Foil Bas-Relief (aluminum foil on printing plate) 445

Chapter 12: Digital Media, Photography, and Video 447

Computer Art Less ons 447

Computer Graphics Exercises (Handout) 449

Project 12-1. Alphabet Soup 450

Alternative Project: One-Word Composition • Content Connection: Language Arts and Social Studies—Art History Research Report

Project 12-2. Pop Art Objects and Radial Design 452

Adaptation for Younger Students: Radiating Shapes • Alternative Projects: Nonobjective Design; Symmetry; Kaleidoscope; Three-Dimensional Flower Garden; Arabesque

Project 12-3. An Old Master Painting with a Young Face (your school photo) 455

Alternative Projects: Self-Portrait Four Ways; Yourself and Your Favorite Things; Combine Two Completely
Unrelated Objects • Content Connection: Language Arts—Make a Word Portrait

Project 12-4. Computer Graphics 458

Content Connections: Language Arts—Create Your Own Website • Social Studies—Careers in Computer

Graphics; Flag Design; Travel Poster • Alternative Projects in Graphic Design: Billboard; Bookplate; Border Design; Magazine Cover; Personalized Stationery; T-Shirt Designs; Yearbook Cover • Additional Potential Assignments: African, Hispanic, or Native American Mask; Animals in Their Environments; Design It on the Computer; Different Media; DVD Labels and Box Cover; Hex Design; Metamorphosis; Name Design; Nonobjective Design; Postage Stamp; Quilt; Still Life; Victorian House

Project 12-5. Alphabet Book (lettering and drawing) 464

Adaptation for Younger Students: Favorite Letter • Alternative Project: Alphabet Coloring Book

Project 12-6. Begin with a Scan (scan a photograph) 466

Alternative Project: Photo Album • Content Connection: Language Arts—Autobiography

Project 12-7. Computer City (computer exercise using geometric shapes) 468

Content Connections: Mathematics—Perspective Drawing • Social Studies—City Center

Photography 471

Digital Photography • Advantages of Digital Photography • Disadvantages of Digital Photography

Taking Photos—Digital or Film Cameras: A Few Suggestions 472

Project 12-8. Close-Up Photograph 474

Alternative Projects: Body Parts; Product Photography; Faces in Things • Content Connection: Language Arts—Photo with a Poem

Project 12-9. On Assignment (photojournalism) 476

Adaptation for Younger Students: All About Me • Alternative Projects: A One-Photo Story; Recess

Photo Essay; Class Book • Content Connections: Language Arts—Feature Story • Social Studies—Local Color • Science—Species

Video Production 479

Basic Information on Using a Camcorder • Glossary • Effects Achieved with Filming Technique

Project 12-10. I Want to Be a Producer (video camcorder) 480

Potential Projects: Reenactment of History; Survey of Art; Be an Artist; Be a Work of Art; Architectural Report; Personal Interview • Content Connection: Language Arts—An Original Screenplay

Storyboard: The Old Philosopher (Handout) 483

Project 12-11. TV Commercial (video camcorder) 484

Content Connections: Language Arts—Script Writing • Social Studies—Public Service Announcement (PSA)

Index 486