Miss Gabriel's Art Gallery

For this project the supplied needed are construction paper, cut up squares of construction paper and scrapbook paper, mod podge glue, a paint brush, and scissors. The focus for this project was to make a paper mosaic while also working with positive and negative space. In the picture above you can see my finished product. We were able to chose whatever colored construction paper we wanted along with whatever colored/printed square we wanted. We created our negative and positive space pieces by folding smaller pieces of construction paper in half and cutting out a random shape. Before we pasted those to the large piece of construction paper, we had to paste the small squares using mod podge. In order to make sure the small square stick very well, you must first use the paint brush to "paint" mod podge on the construction paper as a base coat. You then place squares on top of the wet mod podge and "paint" over the squares again with mod podge to create a top

In this picture above, you can see my example of what it's like to do print making with gelli pads. The supplies need for this project were jelly pads, rollers, acrylic paint, paper, various stencils and baby wipes. To start, you put down a dollop of paint that you want to act as your base color and use the roller to cover the jelly pad. For example, on the top right print I used orange as my base color, I then put a stencil over the paint, and then a piece of paper of the stencil. Using the roller, I pressed the paper onto the gelli pad. This left the pattern that you see.  I then wiped off the gelli pad and roller off with a baby wipe to rid them of the paint that was on them. Next I put a small amount of black paint and used the stencil of a sun and cloud to add another layer of patter to the print! We made many different print, but chose our 4 favorites to glue on to construction paper. We finished with gluing on a notecard that had a description of our prints! A different

This was a fun and festive way to tie in the upcoming holiday! The type of media used for this art project was clay. Out of clay, we made our own Easter eggs. One of the requirements for this project is that we had to use two primary colors. I used blue and yellow. This is a good way to test students' knowledge on the proper use of colors! We were only given red, blue, yellow, and white, With those colors we had to mix if we wanted anything other than that. I mixed blue and yellow to make green in the thin stripes of my egg. Then I used white to mix with blue and red to make a teal and pink! There are many different things that you can use clay for! An extension activity that you could do using clay is making carved animal tiles. For upper elementary students, you could have them do a small research project about their animal. To incorporate art, students would carve this animal into a tile of clay and then paint it! A picture of an example is below.

This project was in the realm of crafting. There are many different ways you could go, but for this project, we made baskets. We wove our own baskets by using different colors of yarn and a small plastic cup. The cup was cut into seven equal sections. (You can see the sections on the picture on the right below.) Once the cup is cut, you take long strings of yarn and weave them back and fourth through the sections. One of the requirements for this project is that we had to use at least three different colors. You could use more if you wanted. I chose pink, green and purple. you can weave as much yarn as the cup can hold. This was a great way to learn about different weaving techniques and the general history of a basket! A different way that you could incorporate weaving is by having students make their own dream catchers! Dream catchers, along with baskets, were a huge part of Native American culture. It's a great way to incorporate many things into a unit about the history Nat

This was an art lesson with the focus of painting. The grade level specified for this art lesson was 3rd grade. To start off the lesson we were taught different types of painting with water colors. We were then able to practice these different types of painting on our own. We did this by sectioning off a piece of watercolor paper into six sections. You can see my practice on the picture above on the left. We were also given two smaller sheets of paper to make actual paintings on. One of the requirements was that we had to include two different types of painting techniques in our paintings. In the top painting on the right picture, I used the techniques scraffito and graded wash. On the bottom painting I used crayon resist and graded wash. A different activity that you could do by incorporating different watercolor techniques is by having them paint a specific environment. You could incorporate science by talking about the different biomes. There are many different ways that y

The inspiration behind this art project is Vincent Van Gough's painting A Starry Night. In this project we used a large black piece of construction paper as our background. Then we used different colors of tissue paper and attached them to the construction paper using modge podge. This is better than just strictly using glue because glue won't exactly add that glossy layer on top of the tissue paper. once the modge podge had dried, we used a variety of colored oil pastels to help create movement on the paper. If you look at the left side of my project, you can see green and blue dashed lines! After adding movement with oil pastels, we cut out a silhouette of our choice. I did a silhouette of a city! Below the project you see a golden ticket. On this ticket are facts we learned about Vincent Van Gough before completing the project. An extension activity that you could do is make stained glass paintings with tissue paper! What you'll need is tissue paper that bleeds, wa

This art project was a drawing lesson all about making abstract art with words. If you look closely, you can see my name, Rachelle, and the words gentle, friendly, smart, and reliable. These words were put into five different sections that were made by a variety of lines. I chose these words because I feel like they reflect me and who I am. This is a good way for students to build self-esteem and learn about themselves! You first draw out your lines and words in pencil and then re-draw over these with either a black crayon or oil pastel. We did this so the words would stand out against the color of the water colors. We then added two different patterns in each of the five sections to help incorporate an element of design. After you have traced these things, use water colors to make a stained glass effect! This project is centered for third grade students An extension activity that you could do for this is incorporating any set of words you'd like. We specifically used adjec

The title of this project is titled "Hidden Safari" for a good reason! You can't see from this picture, but there is an elephant drawn on the sheet that has a lot of pattern on it. Before we worked on the art project, our instructor went over content about what animals would be found in a safari environment. We were then asked to choose a picture of an animal in the safari. I chose an elephant. On a white sheet of printer paper, I drew the cartoon elephant with a very light blue colored pencil. It's important to draw lightly for this project. After I finished drawing the elephant with the light blue color, I then started layering the sheet with patterns drawn on with warm colors. I chose yellow, orange, and red. This hid my drawing pretty well. Then, I was given a note card to write three clues about what animal I drew. Then, I glue on my notecard and drawing to a red piece of construction paper to act a good border for my drawing. The hidden magic behind this proj

The art project pictured above is based on the book "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds. This book became so famous that they created an International Dot Day that's celebrated in September! I used a variety of media to complete this project. Above you can see that our "dot" is a coffee filter. We used a coffee filter because colors bleed and blend together well. On the right dot, I experimented with markers, water colors, water color crayons, crayons, and oil pastels. We tested the resistance of the oil pastels and crayons while testing the bleed effect of markers, water colors and water color crayons. On the left dot, I focused on making more of a design with media that I like best. I used white crayon to make flower petal shapes. I then used makers and water colors to add color to the coffee filter. A different way that you can implement dots into a project is using dot markers. This is something I would do with younger students in either kindergarten or first

For one of my assignments in my Art Methods course, I was asked to go take pictures of everyday things that represented the Elements and Principles of Design. Here are 5 of them below. Space This is a picture of a salt and pepper shaker in the Student Center of my university. I took this picture to help represent space. Space shows how things are three-dimensional. Texture This picture represents the element, texture. It's a picture I took outside of snow on the ground. Contrast Contrast is the difference in values, colors, textures, shapes and other elements. You can see contrast with the light from the window shining on the floor. This picture was taken in the hallway of one of NSU's buildings. Value I am demonstrating value in this picture of pool balls. Value refers to the darks and lights of colors which you can see in the different colors of the pool balls. Repetition This is a picture of vents in one of my classroom. These vents represent

My first project was to make an introductory footprint! The directions given to me were to trace my footprint on a piece of construction paper and cut it out. Once it was cut out, we had to include three different types of media to represent different aspects of our lives like our interests, hobbies, or anything else we wanted to include. For my footprint, I included many different things. Starting on the top left are stick figures drawn with grey marker on pieces of construction paper. They represent my immediate family: my parents and four other siblings. Moving down is the outline of South Dakota with a blue star to show where I was born and raised, Milbank, SD. Next, you can see NSU's logo (the Wolf head) and the word Northern. This is to represent that Northern State is my favorite university and is the only university that I applied to. I cut these symbols out of the school's newspaper. Moving down you'll see a red apple. I made this on a piece of construction paper