Grace Irey's Art Portfolio

Description: For this activity, we used stencils and vegetables to do jelly printmaking. We began by placing a thin layer of pain on the jelly, and then we used vegetables to make various prints in the paint. After that, we placed paper on top of the prints we made and rolled the paper onto the jelly. The paint and prints transferred onto the paper, creating various artworks. We then cut out the different prints we made on the paper and glued them onto a large piece of construction paper to make a gallery. Finally, we wrote 1-2 sentences describing the prints we made.  Extension Activity: As an extension for this activity, you can use different items to make prints. For example, you can connect the project to a social studies lesson about fossils. You can have students create fossil prints, similar to what they would see for trace fossils in a museum. The students can then describe which fossil they printed on their galleries.   

Description: For this activity, we used crayon and water colors to create a galaxy. First, we began by learning different techniques for how to use watercolor. Next, we talked about how crayon is resistant to watercolor and can be used to create drawings that will show up even when watercolor is put over it. Then, we drew at least one constellation on our paper and some stars or a moon if we wanted. Then we drew a landscape, for mine I included some trees and hills. After that, we painted watercolor that was meant to look like a galaxy.  Extension Activity: As an extension for this activity, it could be connect to a science lesson about astronomy. By discussing galaxies, stars, and constellations, students can learn some basic astronomical concepts. Students can also label or write about the galaxy they created.  

  Description: For this activity we created our own version of Whoville using paper strips and glue. First, we decorated the paper strips with different patterns using sharpie. Next, we learned about four different types of folds we could use to fold the paper strips to create cool sculptures and folded tabs into them to prepare them to be glued to the paper. Then we used a glue stick to glue the small tabs we made to the paper in whatever places we wanted. This resulted in a 3-D Whoville of our own.  Extension Activity: As a possible extension for this activity, it could be connected to a reading and writing unit. Children can either read themselves or listen to the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas being read aloud which features Whoville as its setting. In addition to this, students could also write a brief paragraph about what makes their Whoville unique. 

  Description: In this activity, we learned about how to draw with perspective. We started by drawing a dot in the center of the paper and then drew several different rectangles around the dot. Next, we connected all of the rectangles to the dot using a ruler to draw straight lines. Then we drew different patterns onto each rectangle, and finally we colored the lines connecting the rectangles to the dot with oil pastels to help show perspective. It ultimately created the illusion of a birds-eye view perspective. We also outlined everything in sharpie, to help make the project neat and help it to stand out.  Extension Activity: A possible extension activity is to connect this project to writing. The result of the project looks very similar to a city, so students could write a brief short story about who lives there, what the city is like, etc. based upon how old the students are.