plaid bunny

This week we also got to learn about complimentary color which include green and red, orange and blue, and purple and yellow. With these colors we were taught about plaid and how you create it by putting horizontal and vertical lines together using different colors. With our project we used the complementary colors to create plaid and then were given cut outs to trace out shapes and putting them together make a bunny... I create a red and green bunny which made me think of Christmas which is sort of funny since it is bunny shaped!!! Isn't he sooo Cute...

 An extension from this activity could be in math, you could count the lines created by the students or you could make problems up using the bunnies made as a visual lesson..

Contour blind drawing- Flowers

This week we created a flower painting where we used blinders to draw without looking. I thought that this was a different way to create art and was very interesting to do. My picture didn't show up as well as I would have liked it too but there is no say in how your art piece is going to turn out. This is a great project for younger students since they get to try something different by using the blinder and paint as well which is always fun.

An extension activity you could use off of this activity could be in geography where they create a map in a dark color but have a hidden city or place where the students could have clues to what the student's have hidden. The students could go around and try to guess what everyone has hidden on their maps.

Hidden Safari

The whole project...

Here is my "Hidden Safari" project. Take a guess on what animal is hidden within the picture... can you see him. This project was great way to get the students to use creativity with cool and warm colors. The students learn to draw in a way not really thought of when creating something. The artist turns the picture they are looking at upside down and starts with a line, you would be amazed at the drawings that form when doing this method. Then they are hide this animal as well as they can with warmer colors such as red, orange, and yellow but drawing different shapes throughout the piece.

"Close up of the Hidden Safari"

An extension from this activity could be for the students to look into their animal of choice even further by researching where they come from, the different characteristics of that animal, what they eat, how they find their food and other amazing facts to share with their classmates...

The note card for the hints to the hidden animal!

Story book Project

"The Lonely Penguin"

This is my story book project. Its a story about a lost penguin who is trying to find out where he fits in. It starts out with the lost penguin on his own and wondering who he is and where he is suppose to be in life. So he decides he is going to start looking, first he look to the sky and catches sight of two birds flying over the ocean just below the beautiful sun. He thinks himself, is that were i belong and tries to flap his wings and fly but can't so he continues along with his journey and sees a lot of different types of animals but in the end finds his home with the other penguins. the colored parts of the story are from mine and others paintings that were cut out into the characters and backgrounds of the project. This was a really fun and great way to interact literature and art together.

I think the best extension to this lesson would be actually having the students write a story about their picture, you could have them present the story if they want or just turn in a little part of the story so you can hang them up in the classroom for all the students to see what their peers have created and the differences and similarities of the stories.

Here I have a similar painting to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. We used a teaching grade level of Kindergarten so the piece is actually finger-painted. I chose to make a picture of the Bismarck Capital for my art piece because I grew up in Bismarck and its truly one of my favorite places to be, the place I call home.  The other piece is used for 3rd graders, we used tissue paper to create background and made a city silhouette and to bring out some color we used Sharpe markers and oil pastels for some extra pzazz.

An extension from this activity could be to have the students make their own version of "Starry Night" with the use of pastels, markers, crayons or even pictures they have taken or ones picked from a magazine or book. I think you should also bring in some books about Van Gogh for the students to look at for inspiration.

Tissue Paper Project

"The Lights of the Capital"

Britlyn Sturlaugson

Texture-Rug

Emphasis-Table

Organic Shape- Trees

Unity- Puzzle

Space- Stairway

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Footprint

Hello Everyone, My name is Britlyn Sturlaugson and this is footprint tells you about myself and the things that make me who I am today. I'll first talk about the top part of the foot, there is a volleyball and javelin which help show some of the things that I have done in college and throughout my life, I was a North Dakota State Champion in the Javelin my Senior year and when I transferred to Northern I started to throw again, but before that I competed in Volleyball at Bismarck State College and at Northern State the last two years but before that I had always played volleyball, its my favorite sport. I have an ice cream cone showing that I love ice cream, I would eat it even if it were 20 below. It's just so YUMMY!!!There are music notes because even though my voice isn't the the best, I still enjoy listening to music and on occasion while around close friends or family sing to myself. My name is written as Miss Sturlaugson which is what i will go by as a teacher till I get married and the book behind it represents my passion for teaching and working with children as well as my passion for just reading. I love to just cozy up to a fire or bed and just read especially if the book is amazing, the most resent books I have loved are the Hunger Games books which are a collection of three.
The bottom foot starts off with a camera, I have been taking photo's since I was given my first throw away camera in elementary. I think having photo's in your house for people to see who is important in your life and the things that you have done is a perfect way for someone to get to know you. The sun represents my personality, I have always been the happy, easy going person, one that my friends and family can rely on when they need someone to talk to. I put the high heel in there because my sisters, mom and I have always gone on bargain shopping outings and that has been something that I have always liked to do. It gave us a chance to talk about the things going on in our lives and since we all fit into the same size, its a great way to know if the cloths look good or not. The mug is showing that I literally am addicted to coffee and I don't really know what I would do in the morning without it. My last thing on my footprint is the outline of North Dakota where my home is in good old Bismarck. I was born and raised there, with my Mom, Dad, older brother, and two sisters. My brother is married and he and his wife had the cutest little boy you can imagine this past June and he is my first nephew so he is definitely spoiled by his aunts. I love my family more than anything really. They are the ones that made me strong, happy, caring, and independent. I can't forget my dog Daisy who has been in my life since I was in eighth grade. She is the most amazing, best pet anyone could ask for. People would always joke that she was like a human and honestly she is, but i wouldn't have her any other way.
Well I hope you like my footprint and have enjoyed learning a little bit about myself and my life.

An activity I would possibly use in my classroom to get to know my students was actually inspired by this lesson of the footprint making. I thought that the students could make a footprint like we did but instead of drawing about themselves on it, I would have them lay their footprint in a circle around the room with their names on it. With some big dice I would role them out counting the number that comes out  and having the students move that number of footprints. Starting with me I would look at the name whose footprint I am standing on and ask that person something about them self,moving around the circle each child would get to share that question with the person who's footprint they are standing on. I thought this would be a fun activity for the students to do and it gets them up and moving.