A Moment of Transformation Grade 6 Art Foundations

Session 1 Agenda Introduce challenge Carousel Activity Brainstorming worksheet Sketch ideas in sketchbook Clean Up

Where will change take YOU? What milestones have you accomplished? What experience might bring about a change of emotion? How does the ability to adapt create opportunity?

Challenge: Create an artwork that depicts emotional change or a transformative moment.

Steps Carousel: Visit each location work with your group to list ideas for each topic. Planning: Select a moment/emotion. Complete the Brainstorming Worksheet. Sketchbook: Write a paragraph or make a sketch describing the moment and why you chose it. List the emotion(s) or idea(s) you will express in your self-portrait.

Reflecting life’s changes Paul Lung Self-portrait with Glasses Pencil drawing

Expressive self-portrait Egon Schiele Self-Portrait with lowered Head What do you think the emotion is here? The artist has placed emphasis on shape, viewpoint, contrast and distortion.

Tightly wound Michael Murphy Tension Formed this image of Barack Obama by using 1,000 feet of high-tension steel wire. By the same artist, this time he looped wire looped; highly manipulated and deeply layered.

Wire portraits Alexander Calder This deceptively simple work by Alexander Calder can be seen in in the round. Here is it shown suspended. Concave and convex shapes are both unified and separated from different viewpoints.

Wire portraits Alexander Calder This deceptively simple work by Alexander Calder can be seen in in the round. Here is it shown suspended. Concave and convex shapes are both unified and separated from different viewpoints.

More wire portraits Alexander Calder

Mrs. McCarn’s sculpture

Session 2 Agenda Drawing demo Complete 4 continuous contour line drawing self- portraits Quick video & wire demonstration Begin forming your sculpture Clean Up

2 minute poses

What moment of transformation? ….life transitions ....A moment that changes you ….An emotional shift or change ....A personal triumph or tragedy ….Accepting a change

Steps Draw: complete 4 continuous contour line drawing self-portraits while looking at your expression in the mirror. Use marker: No erasing allowed- just retrace your lines. Try out different viewpoints and/or expressions. Select a drawing to use as your guide Sculpture: Begin forming your sculpture by shaping, bending, and securing the aluminum wire.

How to make a wire self-portrait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1oC3mvDlY

Session 3 Agenda Expressive qualities worksheet. Continue on sculpture. REMEMBER: Next class is final session!

Steps Complete the Expressive Qualities Worksheet activity. Sculpture: Continue manipulating and refining your wire sculpture. Try to capture a sense of your transformative moment and emotion. Hanging: Make sure you include a loop or hook for hanging.

How do artists capture emotion? How have these have artists captured a moment of emotion? How have they transformed the medias of paint, wire, plastic into an expressive portrait?

Expressive self-portrait Egon Schiele Self-Portrait with lowered Head 1912 What do you think the emotion is here? The artist has placed emphasis on shape, viewpoint, contrast and distortion.

A grid transformed Chuck Close Self-Portrait II, 2011 Oil on canvas This self portrait is by Chuck Close. He uses a matrix covering the whole canvas, then paints each square with abstract shapes which combine to form a realistic image.

Alexander Calder, Self-Portrait, Wire 1968 Wire transformed Alexander Calder, Self-Portrait, Wire 1968

Session 4 Agenda Finish your sculpture Complete all required items today!

Steps Finish your sculpture Install your sculpture in the hallway art exhibit Label with name and title Complete the artist statement and the self-evaluation sheet Folder: Make sure your drawings are in the folder