Class 3
October 4, 2019
Exploration 2: Sketchbook Introduction
During this class we will be teaching students the importance of using a sketchbook to develop ideas, and think through their own creative process. This is important because keeping track of their ideas can help students grow as artists, it can help them understand where they started and where they are now. This is something that is important to start at a young age because that can help them grow throughout their artistic development.
Essential Understanding
Artists and designers use sketchbooks as part of their creative process to think through and develop their ideas.
Learning Targets
After beginning to develop their ideas in the last class, students will be able to further explore and explain their ideas and continue to work on their sketchbooks. After having some time to think through their ideas from their sketchbook, students will be able to engage and persist by making revisions and adding to their previous ideas successfully. After discussion, students will be able to explain why artists and designers use sketchbooks in their creative process, as measured through their contributions to the discussion.
Key Concepts:
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At their table students will go around and talk about what they have put on the cover of their sketchbook, and why they decided to do that for their cover
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Students will discuss what their ideas were last class, and what they changed during this class
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Students will write a sentence about why artists and designers use sketchbooks
Skills:
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Ideation
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Collaboration
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Imagination
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Reflection
Documentation
Studio Habit: Observation
The Wonderlab teachers will show the students the revisions they have made to their own sketchbooks, and stress the idea that it is ok to start with one idea and end up with another. There is always something we can add to our artwork, even when we think it is finished, to make it more interesting to viewers.
Studio Habits: Envision and Express
“This is a pyramid with a face”
“Why does the pyramid have a face”
“Because I saw it on this illuminati thing one time so I gave it a face”
“Interesting. Is the wholethingk going to be yellow?”
“No.I'm going to create a pattern of different colors”
“I saw this in a book at the library where you take your pencil and you color the entire page and then you use your eraser to make the designs.”
“That is very creative! So What is this in the corner?”
“That is a rocket ship and ill probably put a few planets in the corner here”
“So is the pencil the dark space in outer space?”
“Not really I just wanted to try out this way of drawing and I’m good at drawing spaceships”
“I get my lines from the music that’s in my brain.”
“The music that is in your brain. So does this represent a certain song?”
“No. The lines are just small and then they go big.”
“So are the small lines quieter and the big lines louder?”
“Yeah it starts here and then goes all the way out here so it starts kinda quiet like this *starts singing* and then gets like this *starts singing*”
“I made a mega flower with all different kinds of flowers”
“What kind of flowers are on there?”
“The bottom layer is a sunflower, and then its a poppy, and then there is a daisy, and the center is a rose.”
“What are the lines that are coming out of the flower?”
“Those are just for decoration. Or actually I’m going to come up with what they are when I’m finished with them”
These two students made a discovery during material exploration when they were cleaning their paintbrushes in the container of water.