Are you as ready for Halloween as I am? I hope so! I love this time of year because of the parties, spooky movies, parties, and of course trick or treating. So it's no surprise that this past week's lesson was on Frankenstein and spooky settings.
This lesson was a guided drawing, which if you don't know, means that I showed the kids step by step how to make a specific Frankenstein image. I will not always use this method, but I've found it helps at the beginning of a project to get it moving. The students were very pleased with their pictures and so were me and Mrs. Green. Here are some of the finished images:
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Aren't these just great?
The next lesson we did was on settings. The students learned what settings and characters were, as well as different ways they could represent a setting to make it peaceful, spooky, fun, romantic, etc. I did a quick demo of a night scape with a simplistic abandoned house with broken windows, spider webs, monsters, and graves. This was to give them ideas of what they could include in their own pictures. Some students included traps, ghosts, blue moons, and fire. I loved seeing their imaginations at work. I wished we had more time so each student could explain their picture to their neighbor or the whole class. Since this drawing was a free style drawing instead of a guided drawing, they were a little messier and harder to recognize, but the creativity behind them was strong and made their drawings individually interesting.
I forgot to take photos of their drawings, so once take those, I'll post them.
'Til next time!
Mrs. Kelli Brown
Art Scholar
