Lesson Plan For Fieldwork

For my placement at Pine Bush High School, I am required to teach a lesson to the high school students. For my lesson, I drew inspiration from what we did in class the first couple of weeks; surrealist games.

The lesson is for a Studio Arts class with mainly freshmen and sophomores. This is a one day lesson which involves the students in making ink blots and creating something from them.

In my lesson plan, the artist I gave examples of, was Andy Warhol.

I want the students to create something from these shapes, using whatever they see and the negative spaces.
I am also still trying to modify this lesson to include some other artists that use Rorschachs as a jumping off point for a larger piece.
I'll post some of them next time.

Ideas for Post Modern Theme Presentation

Melissa and I are doing the theme of "Outsider Art" (Escaping the Confines of the Museum), and one of the artists that we chose was Banksy.
I just wanted to post some websites here that might help us find another artist.

Modern Met

Surrealist 3D Sculpture Lesson Plan

While I was finishing up my lesson plan, I looked over my Visual Resources part and there are some interesting artists who I would like to remember for future projects:


Meret Oppenheim 

Ron Mueck

These two artists are surrealists and I think they help push my lesson plan further. Once the students see these artists, I think they will be motivated to create.

E+P Accordion Book

For my accordion book, I modified it to include themes of identity, mixed media, text + image, and narrating. I wanted the students to include something personal, such as their daily routine.

Instructions for the Modified version of the E+P Accordion Book are as follows:

1) Students will make small thumbnails to plan out the pages for the accordion book.
2) Students will look through magazines and cut out words and images that has to do with their day to day routine.
3) When the students have all the appropriate images and words, they will put them in order and start gluing them to the book.
4) Once the students are finished gluing, they will add on to the images by drawing, using color pencils, markers, watercolor, etc.
5) After the students are finished adding their own drawings, they will write one sentence on each page describing the action.
6) Students will then create a cover for the book, using either magazines or their own drawings.