A sketchbook is a book or pad with blank pages for an artist to draw and write his or her images and ideas.
A sketchbook can be a special place for an artist. It’s like a playground—a place where they can try out new techniques, imagery, and generate new ideas and ways of working.
You can make a sketchbook with 8 pages from a single piece of paper!
So you want to be an ARCHITECT? An Architect is a person who designs houses, office buildings, skyscrapers, landscapes, ships, and even entire cities. Architects are usually are good at art and math, especially geometry. They are creative. They are problem solvers.
I Am An Architect
This architect decided to build a new building on top of an old one, so
there would be more places to people to live in a crowded city.
What do you think inspired this architect? What do you think this building is used for?
This is a lucky person home. Do you see how the architect Frank Lloyd Wright used the waterfall as part of the design? Do you notice how the bricks he choose for the house are similar to the rocks in the landscape?
How can you explore architecture in our studios?
Could you design a new skyscraper in the sculpture studio?
In the drawing studio we have some of the tools that architects use.
Before you start your design, think about these questions:
1. Who will your building be for? A family? An artist? A king?
2. What is your building used for? A home? A school? An animal hospital?
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest coral reef system, located off the coast of Australia.The Great Barrier Reef is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 types of hard coral, one-third of the world's soft corals, 134 species of sharks and rays, six of the world's seven species of threatened marine turtles, and over 30 species of marine mammals
"The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority considers the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef to be climate change, causing ocean warming which increases coral bleaching."-
Artists respond to our changing world, creating art to communicate an awareness about our marine environment, particularly the bleaching of coral reefs. Margaret Wertheim
The Reef Project a crocheted coral reef created by Margaret Wertheim, and her twin sister, Christina. The project combines mathematical ideas, marine biology, a feminine handicraft and community involvement. Over 7,000 people worldwide have participated in the project. The Reef Project responds to and addresses the environmental concerns of global warming and the pollution and destruction of our ocean habitats.
Courtney Mattison Courtney Mattison is a California born artist and ocean advocate working to inspire others to conserve our marine habitats. She creates clay forms, inspired by the beauty of ocean ecosystems—primarily coral reefs—and the human-caused threats they face.
Do you have a cause you care deeply about? What message/information can you share with others through your art?
Relief sculpture is kind of sculpture in which the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The image stands out from a flat background, like the faces and designs on coins.
Low Relief or Bas-Relief Sculpture stands out only a little from the background.
High relief sculpture stands out a lot from the background, while still remaining attached.
LINK TO THE ART of ED LESSON on making a yarn and foil low relief sculpture:
