Destiny Jensen’s Art Gallery

 Description: For this project we learned about a famous artist who made drawings of castles out of shapes. We then cut out four shapes we had to use to construct our castles. We traced our shapes on a separate paper to create an outline. Once our drawings were constructed, we outlined them in sharpie. We then colored our castles in and colored the background as well, making sure to use a color on the background that made our castles pop.  Extension: This lesson could be split apart when helping students learn their shapes and about colors. There could be one day they can only construct their castles using squares and have to color them all cool colors. Another day they would have to create castles using only triangles and have to color them all warm colors etc. 

 Overview: For this lesson we learned various techniques for preparing and making clay objects. We practiced forming balls, kneading and slapping our clay onto the table to get rid of any air bubbles. We then rolled it out using two wooden pieces to determine the thickness of our clay and used a wooden dowel to roll it flat. We then used a circular lid to outline out circle and cut it out. We then learned about addition and subtraction in regard to clay. For this project we needed one addition, which was adding on extra clay and one subtraction which was etching words or design in the clay. We chose additions, subtractions, and colors that related to us and then designed and painted our personal clay fossils.  Extension: For this project we made our own kind of clay fossil that relates to us. As an extension we could relate it to social students or science and practice making realistic fossils. These fossils could be of fish or other animals and would be modeled off of plant and animal