Overall Lesson Objective:
Given media of choice, PowerPoint presentations on how artists come with ideas, demonstrations and exercises on how to create a concept map, thumbnail sketches, paper, and sketchbook, students will be able to develop higher level conceptual ideas, incorporating unity within their thumbnail sketches in order to create a triptych in the material of their choice. Working with my cooperating teacher Rich Edgley, he told me that he wanted to do a Triptych project with his Drawing 2 students, to have them experiment and see what it is like to work with a specific theme or idea, wanting these students to have a taste of what the AP Studio art classes are like. Taking those guidelines, I wanted to create a project where students are taking their own ideas and learning how to properly brainstorm and add meaning to their artwork. To do this, I had students self-assess where they were at with coming up with ideas to draw and then had them create mind maps to see those mental connections and how students can come up with so many ideas in a short amount of time. I created this project to engage students with their own creativity, and allowed them to use whatever media they wished, and providing support with mixing medias together or trying different techniques and approaches. We reviewed color theory, different artists and analyzing different triptychs to see how to create unity or show progression within their work. Overall I was blown away with student's growth in terms of ideas and concepts from their initial free sketches to their final triptychs and concepts behind their art. Below is my student's initial self-assessment of where they were with sketching and coming up with ideas. |
15 minute SketchesThis exercise was created to see where students were at in terms of developing their own complex ideas and where their interests lie in terms of subject matter for drawings
Examples of Student Jamboard responses and brainstorming mind maps. |