Ms. Nellie’s class update

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The above 4/5 project combined two lessons! For the background portion, we first looked at optical illusions. We used color sticks (a woodless colored pencil) to create value, making it look like our paper had dimension.  The second part of our project was emoji design. Students invented completely new emoji or combined parts of existing emoji to make something new. The varying sizes help to show depth.

Our next project dealt with parody. We watched a short clip that parodied, or poked fun at, Grant Wood’s painting, American Gothic. Students were to create a new version that had to include two characters, one character had to be holding something, and there needed to be some sort of structure in the background.

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Yes, that is my foot at the bottom:)