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Ingredients: Clean #6 Plastic Permanent Markers Scissors Aluminum Foil Oven and Tongs or Oven Mitt
1. Obtain a piece of #6 plastic (polystyrene). Most clear containers at salad bars, delis, and grocery stores will work. Just flip it over and look for a “6” inside the recycling arrows. If you ask nicely, they’ll usually give you a fresh one.
2. Cut any excess plastic away to make a flat sheet (use both the top and the bottom), and recycle the excess. 3. Draw or write your desired image or text on your plastic canvas using permanent markers. The total image will shrink to about a third of its original size, and five or six times its original thickness. (My parents, of course, would make us measure before and after, and figure how much it had changed.)
4. Pre-heat your oven to 350°, and place a rack in the lowest position. Create a “tray” out of the aluminum foil by bending up the sides. Technically, you could cover a baking sheet with foil, but the thinner surface allows for more direct heat and quicker shrinking. 5. Place your art in the tray, then use the tongs or an oven mitt to place the foil on the bottom rack. 6. For the first minute your art will curl up all crazy-like, but soon, it will flatten itself out. If you have an oven door through which you can see, then just keep an eye on it. If your door is solid, open it just slightly (as you would do when broiling) after 90 seconds. Total time for a large piece (5-6” starting size) will be about 3 1/2 minutes.
7. Using the tongs or oven mitt, remove the tray. At this point, it’s still plyable, so if you want to flatten it more, or add waves or bend the corners, do so CAREFULLY within the first ten seconds. 8. Now, you can do as you please. It’s still cut-able, sand-able, drill-able, glue-able, and plenty more. Attach it to jewelry, make a luggage label, or even a guitar pick!
Teaching About Line
How to Teach Art Students about Line by Making a Types of Line Organizer
By nlockard, eHow User
Wavy Lines
When teaching my middle school students about the ELEMENTS of ART, we usually do preliminary activities related to each of the elements leading up to more comprehensive projects that require careful deliberation in the application of all elements: LINE, COLOR, VALUE, SPACE, SHAPE, FORM and TEXTURE. One could say that Line is the most fundamental element, it being required in the formation of a composition of any kind. To began exploring line we start by making a Types of Line Organizer.....
Difficulty:
Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
12x18 inch white or manilla drawing paper
a whiteboard
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Have 12x18" drawing paper already on student's desks.
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Assuming you have already introduced students to the 7 Elements of Art through, for instance, a film that explains them--begin the lesson by revisiting the element of Line. Point out that LINES can CONVEY MOVEMENT and FEELING, that they DEFINE SHAPES and AREAS in a composition and that they fall into 2 general categories: lines that are organic or "BIOMORPHIC" (genarally curvy)--that are found in nature and lines that are "GEOMETRIC" (generally sharp, straight, angular) and are found in the "manmade environment."
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DIRECT STUDENTS to take thier 12x18" drawing paper and write their full name and period in the lower right hand corner.
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HOLD UP A PIECE OF DRAWING PAPER and tell students to follow along with you in folding the paper step-by-step in such a way as to yield them 12 boxes. To do this, fold the paper at the 9" halfway point of the 18" length of the paper, and then at the 4 1/2" point of that 9" segment. Then fold that 4 1/2"x12"segment into thirds. Unfolded, this should yield 12 boxes.
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GO TO THE WHITEBOARD and instruct students to follow along with you as you draw and talk about each of 12 different types of line. These are the 12 types that I use: Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, Converging, Spiral, Squiggly, Interupted, Bold, Parallel, Biomorphic, Geometric and Zig-Zag. Start with "horizontal." Write 'horizontal' on the board--say "write this on the top of your upper left hand box." Then draw some horizontal lines.Now, say "draw these lines in your first box." Then ask students by raising their hands to say what kinds of feelings or movements this type of line might convey. Write a few of the answers on the board and tell students to write the answers in thier box. Then ask students for 2 examples of where they might find horizontal lines in nature and then 2 examples of where they might find horizontal lines in the manmade environment. They should follow along with you in writing these examples in thier box. Go through this same process for each type of line. We are able to complete a Types of Line Organizerin one 50 minute class period moving at a brisk pace.
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COLLECT THE TYPES OF LINE ORGANIZERS and grade them by the following criteria: whether they labelled each box, whether they drew the correct type of line to go with the label they wrote, whether this was neatly and legibly done, and whether the descriptive feeling, movement and environment words were written.
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