Saturday, September 21, 2013

Rad Bikes, '13




This lesson has proven to be really successful with all my 5th grade students, and covers the standards of using thumbnail sketches and viewfinders, understanding positive/negative space, and creating color schemes. The pic above has the most sublime monochromatic sky - if I picked favorites, this may have to be it, so dramatic! Here are some shots that show our development. 

 














10 comments:

  1. My favorites are the ones that really blew up their size! I think the view finders are great for giving the kids a different perspective for viewing a larger picture and looking at the design/detail of an area instead of the whole picture! Thanks for sharing these! :)

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    1. I agree! Viewfinders are a great tool to he students with composition. Love this project idea!

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  2. this is a great one:) so many sharp compositions.

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  3. nice! I did some bikes too, with my class. But there are frogs on the bikes ;)

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  4. Fantastic! I love seeing all the unique compositions!

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  5. I love all your ideas on your blog, could you maybe explain the lessons in more detail, I am not very good at art!!!lol

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    1. Here is the same project, posted last year with a little more description - hope tha helps! Basically we talked about using a viewfinder, then we made thumbnail sketches using bike silhouettes I printed from the internet and selected one to enlarge. We filled the bike with sharpie and colored the negative spaces with a selected color scheme : analogous, complementary or monochromatic. http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2012/09/rad-bikes-5th-grade.html

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  6. These are great. I've seen drawing lessons using bicycles in middle school but not really in elementary grades. Thanks for sharing!

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