HALLOWEEN by Richard Anderson
A gentle breeze rustling the dry
cornstalks.
A sound is heard, a goblin walks. A harvest moon suffers a black cat's cry. Oh' do the witches fly! Bonfire catches a pumpkins gleam. Rejoice, it's Halloween!
THEME IN YELLOW by Carl Sandburg
I SPOT the
hills
With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lantern With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling. |
Students began the art portion of the project by sketching out a design and then drawing that design on a piece of black paper in pencil. Students then traced their pencil lines in white glue as carefully as possible. After the glue lines dried they colored in all of our spaces with chalk making sure to focus on value and blending. As part of this project the students were learning how to use chalks but also how to blend colors to make interesting shadows and highlights. Before turning in the project we sneaked outside and sprayed down the artwork with hairspray to keep the chalk from dusting off. I'm pretty impressed with their work and can't wait to do another one using a poem from Robert Frost.
Students were graded on the following requirements:
- Create a scene that properly demonstrates the poem
- Create Contrast through the use of value
- Neatly use chalk to color image
- Glue used in a neat manner
- CRAFTSMANSHIP
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