ArtCart vs Art Classroom Teacher Inquiry Questionnaire

Please post response in comments, or email to me at euh144@psu.edu

Art Cart Inquiry Questionnaire:

How long have you been teaching?

How long ago did you get certified?

What type of teaching certificate do you hold?

What type of teaching environment do you teach in? Classroom/Art Cart

Describe your classroom layout:

Describe the process of planning/preparing: a one day lesson plan?

A multi-day lesson plan?

How long does it take to prepare for a standard lesson, one day and multi-day?

How do you prepare materials for your lesson (for example a impressionist painting lesson)?

How long does it take to prepare these materials?

How long in your lesson do you plan to:

Introduce?

Demonstrate?

Student activity?

Clean up?

Conclusion?

Where do you keep in progress work?

Describe common obstacles you encounter when teaching?

Do you believe your environment creates obstacles?How so?

What are some restrictions and/or bonuses based on the environment in which you teach?

Do you believe the classroom environment in which you teach affects your teaching, preparation and

 execution? How so?

Describe what changes you would make if your teaching environment changed? Classroom to art cart

 or Art cart to classroom?

Describe your ideal teaching environment as an art teacher?

Please provide an attached lesson plan if possible. 1 day and multi-day.

Elements and Principles

Although many art education teachers are now advising to stay far, far away from the elements and principles. I disagree. I know that some aspiring art teachers and artists might want away with the elements and principles because throughout school they are individually dissected for you. I do firmly believe they are of great importance. So much of art can be broken down in to simple reasons, based on elements and principles, of why a painting works.

Through Mill Street Loft Art Institute Todd Poteet asks his painting students to sit and list every element and principle they can think of. The list normally looks something like this:

Line, Form, Shape, Color- Analogous, Complimentary, Quadrad, Triad, Spilt complimentary, double split complimentary, primary, secondary, tints, shades, monochromatic, neutral, grayscale.

Unity, repetition, movement, space, rhythm, pattern, proportion.

Perspective- 2 point perspective, 3 point perspective, atmospheric perspective, linear perspective

Shadow, highlight, Contrast, variety, emphasis, depth, point, value, texture, size, gradation, harmony, dominance, balance- symmetrical, asymmetrical.

We would list all that we know, Todd would add a few we forgot, and he would go over the Golden Section. He would apply the mathematics of the golden section to paintings such as The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.

Students are able to have a Big Idea as the basis of the lesson plan, but with the elements and principles, a very well constructed composition can be planned out. With this, students are also able to discuss paintings and why they are so visually appealing.

Surrealist Ink Blots

Surrealist games can be used in art production.

From using a process similar to inkblots which have been draw on after the ink has dried. Through the randomness of the inkblots the artist can create images that he/she sees in the chaos.

These artworks are made by Florian Nicolle (aka neo). This artist is a 24 year old graphic designer and illustrator from France.
Nicolle has had clients such as the Los Angeles Times and ESPN classic.

She uses a computer to create these images, programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator allow this.

While stumbling on the internet I was able to find this artist at this web address. If you do go onto this page you can see a step by step instruction on how to create images like this. It is possible to use these instructions for physical painting/drawing, as well as digital.

Florian Nicolle thinks extensively of every choice she makes on top of the blots and splatters. This image of Michael Jackson is created on white splatter with pencil, chinese ink, watercolor ink, details added in photoshop, then finally Billie Jean lyrics incorporated into the forehead of Jackson.



Below is a video time lapse of how another artist creates an image out of ink blots. Again this image was created in Photoshop, however the same process can be created with pen and paper.