Art room needs

As you all are going back to school shopping, there are a few things that we could use in the art classroom:
Someone to pick up clay in Santa Rosa (email me about specifics)
Yarn (colorful, not white, any amount)
Dry erase markers, small boards and erasers
Mr. Clean Magic Erasers (gets out Sharpie)
Black Sharpies (fine, ultra fine)
Plastic wrap (1 package)
Plastic Bags (gallon size, zip closed)
Tin Foil (2 packages)
Alphabet pasta letters (1 package)
Colorful plastic bottle caps (like soda bottle caps)

Matisse, Calder and Shapes

Both Henri Matisse and Alexander Calder use SHAPE in their artwork.
Compare and contrast their work in a paragraph (5-7 sentences).
Sketch both of their works with titles/dates.
Choose one artist that you prefer and write why you prefer their work (3 sentences).
Create an original piece in color, inspired by one of the artists (ideas: mobile, collage, painting, etc).

The Gallery of Good is also a fundraiser for schools and students.
 

Poster from Gallery of Good

Poster from Gallery of Good

I won a gift certificate from http://www.thesmartteacher.com/, so I bought some supplies for next school year:
Stretcher Bars: we have a ton of gessoed loose canvases as the high school, so I can teach the students how to stretch their own canvas.
Sketchbooks: They were on sale buy one get one free, so I am prepared for Studio Art entrants next year.
Acrylic: a quart of Mars Black
Sculpey:  for the monster exchange project, I got white 1.68 lb since we already have some left from last year.
I also got a sketchbox with palette as something to sell at an auction idea I have for next year.

100 bucks doesn't go too far with art supplies, huh?
Especially because shipping was free, but ten sketchbooks for 36.45... you cant beat that!

I wanted to thank The Smart Teacher and Dick Blick Art Supplies for hosting this contest and supplying my classrooms with the art supplies they need!

Emphasis writing assignment for Independent Study

Emphasis as independent study homework.
1. Define emphasis as it applies to art.
2. Choose one of the artworks listed below to look up online. Then write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) on how this artwork shows or uses emphasis.
3. If you need help, email me, or choose more than one if you can't write a paragraph on one.

Artworks that show emphasis (complied by Cindy at the Art Curator for Kids ):

• Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939 (Line, Shape)
• Jonathan Borofsky, Walking to the Sky, 2004 (Line, Movement)
• Francisco Goya, The Shootings of May Third 1808, 1814 (Value, Color, Line)
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767 (Complementary Color, Movement)
• Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1494-99 (Balance, Line, Space)
• Richard Anuszkiewicz, Deep Magenta Square, 1978 (Color, Line, Shape, Light)
  
• Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise on the Matterhorn, after 1875 (Size, Space, Light, Contrast)
• Georges de La Tour, St. Joseph the Carpenter, c. 1645 (Contrast, Value, Light)
• Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948 (Space)
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25 (Movement, Line)
• George C. Ault, Sullivan Street, Abstraction, 1924 (Contrast, Shape, Line, Color, Light)
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, known as the ‘Night Watch’, 1642 (Line, Value, Movement)
• Edgar Degas, The Star, ca. 1878 (Shape, Balance, Line, Movement)
• Andy Goldsworthy, Circles, Varied (Shape, Color, Value)
• Ancient Egypt, Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes, ca. 1350 B.C.E. (Scale/Size, Line)
• Fra Bartolommeo, Savonarola, 16th century (Light, Contrast)
• Jean Arp, Enak’s Tears (Terrestrial Forms), 1917 (Color, Shape)
• Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601-02 (Composition, Line, Contrast, Light, Color)
• Alexander Calder, Saucers Skirting a Planet, 1968 (Shape, Color)
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c.1620 (Line, Movement, Contrast, Value)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Man, 1508-12 (Negative Space, Line)
• Gertrude Käsebier, Portrait of Alfred Steiglitz, 1902 (Texture, Value)
• René Magritte, The Art of Living, 1967 (Shape, Space)

This is a picture scavenger hunt as an independent study assignment: