Mr. Ludvigson Classroom

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Jing on Using a Voicethread

Symmetry: when you can fold an image and it looks the same on both sides

Radial Balance: When you can rotate an image 3 or more times and it looks the same.  Its an image that is balanced around a center point

Voicethread: Mandalas and Balance

Watch the create of a Mandala

Visit Karen Scott’s Website

Symmetry Game

Using Voicethreads

Voicethread

Slideshow

Links and Resources

Voicethread on Value

Slideshow

 Links and Resources

Voicethread

Slideshow

Linear perspective is the illusion of things receding in space as they get farther away.  One point perspective has a single vanishing point.  The closer you go to this point the smaller you something appears. Below is an example of 1-point perspective.

Remember that one and two point perspective get their names from the number of vanishing points they have.  For example the image below is two point perspective.  It has two vanishing points.

Filippo Brunelleschi: The inventor of linear perspective an architect of the Renaissance area.

Links and Resources
An Animation About One-Point Perspective and More
http://www.animationbrain.com/one-point-perspective.html
Discovery’s Channel’s Take on Perspective
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30533-assignment-discovery-brunellescos-linear-perspective-video.htm
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/landscape.htm

Xu Beihong Voicethread

Xu Beihong Slideshow

Basic Brush Strokes

Bamboo Brush Painting

Lotus Flower

Koi in a Pond Brush Painting

Xu Beihong Horse

Links and Resources

Color Wheel Voicethread

Color Wheel Slideshow

Creating a Color Wheel

 

Links and Resources

You’ll need.
Paper
Card Board
Tape
Instant Paper Mache’
Bottles, cans and other junk also works for the armature

Creating an Armature

Adding the Instant Paper Mache’

To carve wax you will need carving tools. A butter knife isn’t a bad choice but you will also need a needle tool and some clay clean up tools. Having some linoleum cutters is also preferable.

Getting Started

Faith Ringgold

Born in Harlem in 1930 Faith Ringgold is a famous artist that works with both paints and textiles.  She is most known for her painted story quilts.  The most famous of which is called “Tar Beach.”  She was taught how to sew by her mother and how to create quilts by her great-great-grandmother.  Faith Ringgold’s great-great-grandmother had been a slave in her younger years and made quilts during that time.  These quilts were also often used to tell stories, preserve memories, or even as message boards for the Underground Railroad.  One particular style Faith Ringgold has pulled from was was is called “crazy” quilts.  These are quilts with asymmetrical designs, bright colors, and bold geometric shapes, very characteristic of these quilts made by slaves.

Faith Ringgold started out as a painter and often painted about themes close to her heart, such as racism and sexism.  Her first serious work began in the 60′s alongside the Civil Rights movement.  Much of her early work reflects ideas about inequality and injustice.

In the seventies Faith Ringgold collaborated with her mother to create fabric borders for her paintings.  Eventually they produced a quilt together.  When her mother died, Faith Ringgold decided to continue the family tradition of storytelling and history through writing.  Thus she created her first story quilt, “Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?”  For these stories she worked with both acrylic paint and quilted fabric.  She combined these art forms with storytelling.  She often places handwritten text in the frames of her painted images.  This is also when she began writing stories for children.  The first one was created in 1988.

Faith Ringgold took an artist style that was originally thought of as lesser than other art forms, textiles, and gave it recognition and importance.  She used it to tell the story of her life and the issues the were important to her.  She used simple coloring and flat designs like those that inspired her.  She use this to reach people of all ages to teach them about the issues that she valued.

During her long life Faith Ringgold was a teacher, an artist, children’s story writer, and grandmother of three.  Her motto is “If One Can Anyone Call, All You Gotta Do Is Try.”

Voicthread

Slideshow

Sewing

Voicethread

African Mask Drawing

African Mask Sewn Drawing

Making a Sock Pupper

Links and Games

The Texture Game

Some NPR Radio Shows with Faith Ringgold

Learn more about African Masks