3rd, 4th and 5th Art Noveau- Tiffany Lamps

We critiqued several examples of decorative lamps from the Art Noveau period, known as Tiffany lamps. Several of the lamps repeated similar shapes and imagery to creative beautiful patterns. We talked about how artists designed these pieces to decorate homes and so they must be pleasing to the eye and something the customer would like to buy. Then watched how Tiffany lamps were made, with tiny fitting pieces cut apart and held together with soldered copper. We knew that our designs had to fit together like a puzzle. We drew our designs on, added color, hung them, and put them up for customers to see!

1st and 2nd Art Noveau- Patterned Jewelry

For our decorative jewelry project, we studied broaches, hair clips, and necklaces from the Art Noveau period. We discovered that one way the artists created such beautiful jewelry was to repeat patterns throughout the pieces. We made a list of the several different ways pattern can be made: numbers, shapes, letters, sizes, colors, objects. Then, we designed our own jewelry to include at least three different types of patterning. Our necklace pendants were cut from clay using cookie cutters. Then we painted the clay with our base color and added our patterns with marker. We looked quite flashy once we finished our pieces and could wear them!

4th and 5th Pop Art- POPular Food Tiles

Each class voted on which foods were most popular to that particular class. Then they could pick one food item from their classes' list to design their popular food tile after. Critiquing several examples of pop art helped us come to the conclusion that our tiles needed to include bright and solid colors, a background that would make the food item pop, and perhaps some patterning within negative spaces.

1st and 2nd Pop Art- Pet Portraits

For our last project, and Ms. Lee's favorite, we ventured into the realm of Pop Art. As a class, we talked about how Pop can be short for popular. We talked about what pets are the most POPular with people and determined that cats and dogs were the winners! Then, we made a list of popular accessories that would be added to our pets. This would be our first time using PRINTMAKING as a medium. The repetitive nature of printmaking makes it a perfect fit for the style pop art (what is popular must distributed among the masses). We will be distributing our Pop Art Pet portraits to a larger audience when we sell them to raise money for the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center!