PINCH POT CREATURES

Objective: Students will become acquainted with clay modeling techniques and become conscious of how clay can be molded into shapes and make objects.

Book: Mouseshapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Classroom: Discuss what the students saw in the galleries and sum up the tours highlighting shapes. Transition into the lesson for the day. Review with the students the different ways to mold clay together (pinch, press and smooth). Review what a pinch pot is.

Total Lesson: 40mins

Supplies: clay, clay tools, water containers

Main Project:30 mins

Explain to the students that they are going to create a pinch pot. Begin by having each student roll the clay into a ball. To begin shaping the pot have them place their thumb in the center of the ball and press until they have produced a well into the clay. The students then continue to press into the hole and pinch the edges as they make a bowl shape. After they have created the pinch pot have the students turn the pot sideways and use the opening as a mouth. The students can then add details to their creature such as eyes, wings, horns, teeth,etc emphasizing the shapes of each feature. Remind them that it needs to be connected together or when it dries it will fall apart.

PRINTMAKING WITH FOAM

Objective:Campers will create an etching plate from foam to use for printing. Campers will use this plate to print multiples of their image.

Supplies: print making foam (or foam plates), pencil, paper, printmaking ink, acrylic sheets, brayers

Main Project:Campers will create an image on a piece of paper. They will recreate this design on the foam plate by copying, or tracing the image. Campers will use brayers to apply ink from the acrylic sheet onto the foam plate. Once the ink is rolled evenly over the plate campers will place the plate, ink-side down, onto their paper. (The pressed in image should still be visible after the ink is applied.) They will use a clean brayer to roll the back of the plate, pressing the image onto the paper. Campers will repeat process with same foam plate on new sheets of paper.

SUN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHY

Visitors to the gallery will be introduced to black and white photographs of historical figures as well as images of the desert. With the help of gallery staff the visitors will learn about different genres of photography like portraiture and landscape, and be guided through a conversation that teaches them how to look for clues in the art so they can appreciate art wherever they go.

Sample Vocabulary:

Photograph • Photographer • Portrait • Landscape • Film • Camera • Negatives

Joshua Tree Landscape

•Describe what makes a photograph a landscape:

oWhy do you think this is called a landscape?

oWhat do you see? (Sky, trees, bushes, rocks, etc.)

oWhat don’t you see? (People, buildings, etc.)

•Let’s look for clues:

oWhat do you see in this picture that tells us people have been here?

oDo you think they are coming back?

•Emotions:

oWhat does this place smell like? Sound like? Feel like?

oHow does this landscape make you feel?

oIs this a place you want to be?

•Elements of Art:

oWhat colors do you see in this photograph?

oWhat colors would we see if we were actually here?

Suggested stories:

Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds, Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

Art Project:

Using sun print paper visitorswill produce a unique landscape using organic materials and the film developing process. They will practice first with “negatives” (black and white images pre-printed on transparency sheets. They will place them over the sun paper and expose for 1-2 minutes. To stop the exposure they will dip the paper in water and set aside to dry.

For their own landscape they will use petals, leaves and grass to create shapes and lines they see in the landscape: rocks, mountains, trees. They will construct their landscape on a transparency. When they are done they will place the transparency on the sun paper and expose it for 1-2 minutes, then stop the exposure by dipping the sun paper in water.

PAPERMAKING

(This gets messy!)

Supplies:scrap paper, pastels, blender, cup, water, window screen, linen cloth, old towels, plastic bin, organic materials (flowers, seeds, etc.)

Steps:

1. Begin 4-5 pieces of scrap white paper.

2. Use the pastels to “dye” your paper—scribble, draw, blend, write secret notes.

(Remember how colors mix to make new colors.)

3. Tear the paper into small pieces.

4. Toss small pieces in blender.

5. Pour 1 cup water into blender.

6. With the lid on the blender, “blend” paper for 10-15 seconds.

7. Place screen in plastic bin.

8. Pour paper “pulp” over screen in bin.

9. Spread pulp evenly over screen.

10. Place linen sheet on top of towel next to bin.

11. Carefully lift screen and place on linen.

12. Place second screen on top of pulp.

13. Roll towel with linen, screen, and paper to squeeze out excess water.

14. Unroll towel and remove top screen.

15. Embed flowers, plants, seeds if you wish.

16. Place paper pulp on screen outside to dry.

17. When paper is dry peel off screen.

SUPPLY LIST

SKETCHBOOKS

  • Newspaper comics, magazines for collage, or mulberry paper (Dick Blick)
  • Chip board/book board (Nasco, Aaron Brothers), backs of notepads
  • Drawing paper/copy paper
  • Yarn
  • Glue sticks

PINCH POT MONSTERS

  • Clay (Nasco, Dick Blick, Michael's)
  • Clay tools (Nasco, Dick Blick)
  • Water dishes

SUN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Sun print paper (Dick Blick)
  • Transparencies (Office Depot)
  • Water bowl
  • Flowers/objects

PRINTMAKING WITH FOAM

  • Printmaking foam (Nasco, Dick Blick), styrofoam plates
  • Stylus (Nasco, Dick Blick), pencils
  • Ink (Nasco, Dick Blick, Aaron Brothers)
  • Brayers (Nasco, Dick Blick)
  • Acrylic sheets (Home Depot)

PAPERMAKING

  • Scrap paper
  • Blender
  • Pastels (Nasco, Dick Blick, Aaron Brothers, Michael's)
  • Window screen (Home Depot)
  • Linen cloth
  • Junk towels
  • Plastic bin

BOOKS THAT TEACH, CELEBRATE AND INSPIRE ART!

Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

"Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists Series" by Mike Venezia

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw

Lines That Wiggle by Candace Whitman

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mousterpieceby Jane BreskinZalben

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis

One Red Dot by David A. Carter

A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis

Perfect Square by Michael Hall

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

Shades of People by Shelley Rotner

Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds

When A Line Bends A Shape Begins by Rhonda Gowler Greene