Exploring the artwork of Piet Mondrian!

Today we explored the artwork of Piet Mondrian and made our own artwork relating to his style.  We will connect our art to our study of fractions!  Here are the videos from class today as well as some examples of Mondrian's work:

We created our own Mondrian style artwork during class today, focusing on bold dark lines and boxes colored in in primary colors.  If you were out today, you will need to pick up a template from me, or print out the image below (enlarge to fit paper, but keep the dimensional relationship- don't stretch it out) and use black, red, blue and yellow to color it in.  You must fill the squares in fully, no half squares or diagonals, to ensure that you will be able to complete the math activity.  There is a completed example below.

Thanks for such a fun and creative day!  I'm excited to do more tomorrow!

-Miss K  :)

Pixel art for Monday

Okay...  We are going to get a little creative next week and play with pixel art!

Your homework is to come with a large, square (hopefully color) picture on Monday if you can!  Feel free to email the picture to me if you would prefer and I can print it out for you.  Instagram pictures are ideal for pixelating because they are already square and usually have bright, simple shapes.  If you want to use an instagram picture, you can hashtag it #misskpixelart and I will be able to access it!

If you can't get a picture printed, that is fine!  You can email me or tag the picture on instagram or just rip a picture out of the comics of your Sunday paper or whatever you can find.  If you can't make it happen one of those way, that's okay too!  I will have extra images for you!

Here are two pictures of my dog that I was able to pixelate digitally.

 

As you can see, when we pixelate, we can break an image up into boxes (sometimes even other shapes) and represent the image in a different manner.  Old video games used to look very pixelated.  See Mario and the Duck Hunt duck below.

I spent many an afternoon playing this game!

If you have a picture that you would like to digitally pixelate like I did to my dog above, you can go to LunaPic and pixelate it here!  If you have trouble getting to the "Pixelate" section, choose it from the "adjust" menu items.  It's the 6th one down.

Here are some fun and funky examples of pixel art, sometimes using pixels, sometimes using interesting objects like rubik's cubes or candy!

Rubik's Cubes!

Jelly Beans!

 Legos!

 Tee shirts!

A video on making the Tee Shirt pixel art!

Try making some basic pixel art here!

Check out some really cool mosaics made from random objects HERE!

If you have any questions or if there is any confusion about what you are supposed to do, don't worry about it and we will talk about it on Monday!  If you can bring in a picture, GREAT!  If you email me a picture, GREAT!  If you can hashtag a picture, GREAT!

If you can't, NO WORRIES!!!

Enjoy your weekend and I can't wait to begin making art with you on Monday!!!

-Miss K  :)

Math in Nature

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Toilet paper art...

(Can you tell I am kinda bored waiting for this storm to start?)











From BOOOOOOOM.com and artist Sakir Gökcebag

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Make anything a Keyboard

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More OoO

Today we had out "Operation Central" play!  And we solved the big confusing math problem!

Tonight's homework is the OoO (Order of Operations) worksheet.  Most of you either finished or came really close to finishing your homework in class tonight, but here are examples from the paper...  Remember that a= 2, b=3, and c=4.

Good luck on the homework and have a nice day!

-Miss K  :)

Math is Musical, Music is Mathical!

Another Vi Hart video...  each pattern corresponds to notes as they change.  Now I'm not musically literate, but this is amazing and beautiful!  Check it out!



Vi Hart's comment on the video:

A visual and musical expression of mathematical symmetry groups. The transformations done to the video are equivalent to the transformations done to the notes.

These type of repeating patterns are called frieze patterns. A couple wallpaper groups are also represented.

Enjoy!

-Miss K  :)

Quiz Tomorrow

As you know, we have a quiz tomorrow.  In order to help you prepare, you should make a simple infographic covering the following topics:

Feel free to use a sheet of computer paper and markers/crayons/colored pencils/whatever to decorate your infographic.  I will collect these prior to the quiz tomorrow, so in with your finished product!

-Miss K  :)

Pictures from Friday!

You have some major talent kiddos!  ABC- Always be Creative!!!!

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Always creative!

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This is just awesome!

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Patterns and Repetition

In light of today's activity, I thought you might enjoy checking out this blog post from Digital Photography School, Patterns and Repetition.

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Art inspiration for your Creative Geometry Assignment

Get Inspired!

Art from Charley Harper







Art from Pablo Picasso







Art from Piet Mondrian







Art From Wassily Kandinsky







Art from Joan Miro







I hope that these help to inspire you!

-Miss K  :)