TPSD Distance Education - aired April 20

April 20, 2020

Testing we are so excited today.

She is going to bring art to virtual learning.

Thank you so much.

This is a treat.

You are well known throughout.

Your work speaks for itself.

This is a treat and everything that you're going to do for our students.

We still want them to do our arts and pe.

You've got some exercises that the students can do.

>> yes.

All of our our teachers have been working hard to building components into the distance learning.

I love that we think of the whole child and all of their needs.

>> exactly.

Were going to bring out the creativity today.

>> yes.

That's the best way to get through social distancing.

So it's an odd phrasing.

It's geometry and visual arts.

That's intimidating for me.

So i'm going to let you divan and get us going.

>> all right.

Well geometry and visual art are natural partner.

We see geometry and art all the time we may not think about it, but we do.

The reason we chose geometry is because so many of our levels are focusing on geometry.

So whether you are studying angles, this is a natural fit for this time of year.

So we are looking at the artist joan moreau.

She was a great inspiration for whimsical and geometric art.

This first piece that were going to look at is in the garden.

Now, it does not look like a realistic garden that you might see, the artist definitely use his imagination.

He used wild theatrical colors and shapes.

>> it's very catchy.

>> it is very bold.

This artist is bold and vibrant which is great for our students.

>> it almost has a 3d look to it.

>> it does.

He also created the singing fish.

I love that title.

>> art should be fun.

It should be an expression of our creativity and imagination.

That's one thing i love about this artist.

Now some fun facts before we get into the activity.

He was born in barcelona spain.

He was a spanish-speaking artist.

He began creating art when he was seven years old.

>> how old are you how old were you.

>> you know, my man-- my mom said i used to draw the choir members while i was listening to the choir.

He knew at an early age that he wanted to be an artist.

He was lifelong friends with picasso.

I'm sure our children at home -- >> imagine those conversations.

>> i'm sure they had a lot of inspired conversations.

He also painted his entire room and stars.

It like anybody who is not afraid to take risks and be creative in their own environment.

He painted in a surrealist matter.

Another way is that he created these imaginary worlds with his art..

He also likes child work -- childlike artwork.

He wanted to share childlike wonder drug world.

>> he wanted people to use their minds.

>> he wanted to behave people bring their own experiences to the world.

He could draw and paint realistically, but he wanted you to use your imagination.

>> that's what i love about arch.

I am by no means by an artist, you know that i'm not.

>> there is no wrong answer.

>> no.

>> you just express yourself ever how you want to.

>> i tell my students all the time no two people walk or talk the same and they will make art the same.

It should be different.

>> exactly.

>> always like to tell my students in the classroom where is spain?

We need to know where these places and people that we are talking about, where are they from.

We are a global society.

You see on our map, it's close to mississippi.

And then spain is all the way across the atlantic ocean.

There is a little star marking our spain is in between portugal and france.

Now he didn't just paints canvases they like to create sculptures and murals.

If you look all over tupelo, we have murals that we can be proud of as well.

>> especially downtown.

You're responsible downtown.

>> i worked with a group of individuals we were off the wall mural committee.

An hour people, high school students created a mural that i'm sure students have seen.

>> you make it fun.

You've also done stop at longhorns.

>> on the working at one of the high school bottom one scheduled.

>> i can't wait to see.

Fun things.

>> so today, we are going to use geometric shapes and some geometry in math and vocabulary to create our own whimsical garden scene was a very imaginative bird.

>> we want the students.

>> please do.

I'm going to lead you step-by-step.

There is no wrong answer.

If yours doesn't look like mine, no worries.

You should have your personality and your fun.

I was tell my students, no two should be like.

Okay?

So to begin with, we are going to draw a trapezoid.

>> and when you say geometry you mean it.

>> i mean geometry.

Were talking quadrilaterals and all kinds of shape.

It only has two parallel sides.

That means the -- the top line, it's a little shorter than the bottom.

They aren't exactly the same link.

>> they run parallel.

>> admitted draw my quadrilateral, and you can draw long, too.

You can use a pencil first if you like, or you can control his markers.

I tried to think of what our students would have at home, but would be easy and accessible.

You can use colored pencils but don't let your supplies hold you back.

You can create this art with anything you have at home.

>> keep mom happy and don't make too big a mess.

Around is -- we are going to create a rhombus in our trapezoid.

It has four equal sides.

The opposite sides are parallel.

You know those angles are the areas created when two lines meet.

They are equal.

So it looks like a diamond shape is a way we can describe it.

I'm gonna draw my.

>> for a box doing a balancing act.

I tell my students a diamond looks like a square turned on its side.

He next were going to draw a circle.

Does it have to be mathematically perfect?

Just do the best you can.

It doesn't have to be.

Your circle is a little wonky, that's okay.

If you need to find an object and use an object to trace that's fine, too.

>> i like your word wonky.

These are all -- their great art terms. okay.

So we are going to create a triangle for his beak and of course, a triangle is a flat geometric figure that has three sides and three angles.

>> it's neat watching this come together.

>> it is.

All hearts, we are using straightforward geometric shapes but all artists use shapes when they draw that's where you begin.

You may add details and layers, but you always start with a shape.

We are going to create a rectangle for his neck, a rectangle is a four sided flat shape.

It's a quadrilateral with straight sides where all interior angles are right angles, 90 degrees.

Also the opposite sides are parallel and of equal length.

>> were getting in knife lesson in an art lesson.

>> absolutely.

This is true art immigration when using math terms, geometric terms that your learning in your class and applying it to real-world activity.

>> all right.

Well, what we are going to do now is we are going to take a break.

When we come back we are going to add to our drawing.

We will be right back.

This is distance learning, 101.

>> welcome back to distance learning 101.

We are joined today by kids who is taking us through geometry and visual arts, incorporating the two.

And show us where we are at.

We see what's on the computer but where are we at in real life.

>> i'm doing everything here that you should be doing at home.

We started with our trapezoid.

Were going to turn the rhombus to a cool thing later.

I created a surface jpeg.

It does not have to be perfect.

But you want to find something to use as a template, you can.

We created the triangle?

Rectangle neck in our going to work on the fund legs for our bird.

So, our next step is were going to use parallel lines to lines that run alongside each other on the same plane to create our whimsical bird legs.

>> very straight.

>> and sometimes i tell my kids who draw line and then you make a copycat line.

Next were going to create the second leg.

Will make him look like a flamingo.

We will have them perched on one line.

We are going to create an angle.

And angle is formed it weird to lines meet at a share point.

If we are protractor we could measure our angle, but were just gonna worry about making acute little bird legs.

We will draw one angle and then go back and copycat.

So your legs should look kind of like this.

Now we will create a horizontal line.

Horizontal line is a line that runs left to right or long horizon.

I tell my kids at school the horizon line is where the sun or the sky needs the land.

That's one easy way to keep in mind the horizon line.

>> i love that a naturally.

When you enjoy horizon line make sure that your little bird's foot is actually below the horizon line.

You do not want to make him look like he is loping.

I guess he could be flying but we want him planted on the ground.

>> this gives it a little depth perception.

>> it does.

>> now, next, we are going to add all the fun details.

The details are what make your artwork fun and add interest.

So my next step, i am going to draw some semicircle or half circle line to create hills in my background.

>> so you've got your centerpiece.

>> i do.

Those are my main.

>> those are my main pieces.

Now i'm going to draw half circles.

We use a lot of overlapping, if you -- i know your our teachers have probably talked to you about overlapping.

Overlapping is when you have an object or line in front of another.

I've got this hill in front and i started another hill, and he goes behind my bird because the bird is overlapping.

And it falls in behind the other hill.

I have overlapping curved lines.

Now, one thing i forgot, his tail feathers.

We have to add the fund tail feathers.

I'm going to pick a nice blue.

These are going to be curved.

Rectangle shapes very whimsical, very fun.

Just a curved line.

And kind of a rectangular shape for his tail feather.

>> is really common to light.

>> he is.

Right.

Your bird can have whatever kind of personality one.

So now i'm going to make some whimsical stamps in my background.

The way i'm doing this is by adding some tall curved -- these are organic lines.

Anytime a line has curves or kind of irregular shapes, we call those organic.

It makes sense because things that grow, those are organic lines.

We are making nice shapes from ice dams. no i am going to go back into a fine, kind of leaf pattern on the side of those dams. >> if you doing this at home, we would love to see your artwork.

So put it on twitter and use the # -- that will be so much fun.

So much fantasy.

So now that i have my stems in place, i'm going to do the fun part.

I'm going to and the flowers.

There's no right or wrong way to make a flower.

You will build them up using the basic use shape, circle, even triangular-shaped.

Just layer them.

>> so what grade are what you're showing us today with the geometry, what grade level does this -- is this introduced?

>> i would say that we start looking at shapes as early as pre-k.

As you progress, it becomes a little bit more in depth, i know that third-grade process on polygons and quadrilaterals and the things were discussing.

I know that fourth grade really focuses on angles, obtuse angles or angles that are greater than 90 degrees.

Acute angles are those angles that are less than 90 degrees.

>> the really learning the geometry shapes and verbiage before they are actually -- their learning into math.

>> right.

Or art first.

I love that.

>> exactly.

We want to give students multiple opportunities to experiment with these terms. and it's really use them in a meaningful way because that's what makes learning -- that's what makes it stick.

That's what makes it stay with us.

>> when it's funny retaining.

>> absolutely.

I'm going to keep coloring and adding my detail.

One thing that i like to tell my students is take a moment and visualize what they want the end product to look like.

Of course we are artists.

We may need to be flexible.

It may not look exactly like you envisioned, but you will get somewhere close and it's some nice surprises, some fun things can happen even if it is not exactly.

>> okay.

I'm adding in my collar.

I'm coloring a lot faster for you today because i want to finish in time.

>> he is definitely feeling spring.

I went ahead and drew a smaller circle inside to make the cute little bird eyeball.

This is whimsical since it's an imaginary bird, you can make them any color you like.

At any of the details that you want him to have.

Now, i'm using washable markers.

>> which is good for close.

>> it is.

And it's also good for a trick we are going to do.

We are going to make duck shaped feet, kind of like a little triangle you know how ducks have those webbed feet?

We've got those in.

It's always fun if you have different shades of markers.

I love using combinations of colors.

I'm going back with a lime green and coloring in my flower stems. it just gives it -- in nature, we don't see just one shape.

Lots of variety.

>> and you talk about art there's no to things that are alike in our.

>> there's variety.

That makes life a lot more fun, right.

>> i'm going back to my little hills on putting in some marks just for interest in fun.

I'm not worried about filling it incompletely because i have a fun little art trick i'm going to show you in a moment.

>> you've come a long way from a white sheet of paper.

>> as.

>> in a short amount of time.

>> well, this is -- we are speed art right now.

So, we are going to take our blue and we are going to make some fun patterns in our sky.

I like squirrels.

So i start with a few swirls and then to build them up and add more.

A swirl is a little curve, like you're going to make a circle, but you don't.

You make a wind swirl.

Filling up our background.

I can leave little bit of white space.

It doesn't have to be absolutely solid.

Like that.

It gives it more interest.

It makes it a lot more fun to look at because our i can see all the different values in different shades okay.

Now i'm going to just create some horizontal stripes across the bottom.

Now.

>> it looks like he's walking.

>> now he's almost finished.

There is something fun you can do with markers even if you do not have paint at home if you have a paint brush and water.

Crayola markers or any type of marker is water-based.

You can take a wet paintbrush and paint over those markers and give them that soft edge that paint might have.

It softens everything up, it helps blend our colors.

Do you see how my sky turns the whole sky like a baby blue?

>> that's a lot of fun.

If you are old school and you remember those coloring books that used to have the -- the imprint of color in all you do is take a paint brush and water.

>> with the numbers.

>> right.

That's kind of the same thing.

I'm going over my design with water to soften up the color and making it look a little bit more like paint.

>> with the washable's it does not smear what you've already done.

>> it doesn't.

Now i'm painting over it and of course, i want to let it dry but our artist loved using a bold black to outline everything.

So once i set this aside and let it dry, i'm going to come back with my black and really emphasize all my shapes and all my designs.

I outline everything with a black.

I love a sharpie.

You're going to use a sharpie at home, be careful.

Put some scrap paper underneath so it does not go through on the breakfast table.

But use your sharpie and go back and outline and emphasize the eye.

Go back and accent your flower stems. and i even made a checkerboard at the bottom of mind just by drawing horizontal lines in vertical lines and then coloring in every other box with black to kind of channel our shown john lareau and his bold design.

I gave them little ankles.

So i want to see what you do.

Definitely share this on social media, tagus.

So, >> will thank you so much.

That was a lot of fun today.

Thank you for not making me have to draw.

You saw firsthand from why did this and you made it look so easy.

In the video, the screens that we use will take you on that step-by-step.

So enjoy your monday.

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