Maybe I should title this post "A Sincere Apology to Romare Bearden." Big SIGH. This was maybe a bit successful? Mostly not? I don't think the students really 'got it' and it shows in their work.
We started out learning about Romare Bearden and looking at his work via a scrolling powerpoint of images. Then we painted blocks of color for backgrounds (using tempera cakes):
Then I made my (first) crucial mistake: I had the students cut anything that interested them out of magazines and allowed them to glue them to their papers. What happened? A mish-mash of images with no cohesion:
Some kind of got it:
But they still felt random, and like students were just gluing random pictures on a piece of paper (which many of them were). I tried to reign it in and get them back on track and didn't let them glue, had them build their composition first, and eh:
I thought maybe adding some oil pastel would help:
Finally, I decided we had to move on, so we finished and added some what I learned/what I want the viewer to know sheets:
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| Sorry for the blurry photo--it says When I did this project I learned: "putting different things together." Something I want you to know about my artwork: "it is outside showing a house." |
Sorry, Romare Bearden!
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