Sixth Sense: "Not So Simple Green"

I used the materials in the homework packet, plus watercolor paints, block printing ink, masking tape, a leaf from Lauren's yard in Florida, and gloss gel medium. My print didn't transfer well with my brayer so I removed the tape from the plate leaving white spaces where the tape was. Then I added watercolor paint to the white areas, as well as pieces of other papers and the leaf for a combination of ideas from both classes at UF and came up with a multimedia piece. I feel like it shows the sense of artistic growth I felt the past two weeks. I just wish I could flip the image so that the growth goes in the opposite direction....that was a result of turning my plate into my art piece.

Sense of Touch: Texture Collagraphs

I have had little experience with printmaking techniques. Working together with my classmates in the printmaking processes and the creation of art has helped me to learn so much. Bob's direction to make non-representational art in our projects has showed me that there are more artistic options than I thought. I can be more flexible with my own art and that, in turn, will allow me to push my students in directions beyond which they thought they could go.

Sense of Sight Exercises

This exercise would be a great way to get started in an art course at the first of the year. I loved the freedom to draw quickly and keep moving while we drew. High school students would like it also, and it would help them to loosen up their expectations of what they were required to do in a drawing/studio art class. The frottage we used to make the prints from our drawings was a new technique for me. Given the right space, it could be taught to high school students as well.

Sense of Sound, Singing Bowls

Singing Bowl (Sound) Monoprint

Mike, Juliet and Laurie

Kim and Natalie

I loved this exercise. What a great way to bring everyone together and to begin a morning's work. I think this would be a great way to integrate a lesson on the arts of Tibet or to bring music into an art lesson. I'm not sure how it would go over with my high school students. It could be very interesting for a group who knew each other well enough. I might need a little more practice before doing an effective demonstration, however. What a treat.