Week 10

Last week Gary introduced a new project. This was a 2D shapes project. The students viewed drawings of three dimensional shapes and had to arrange them in a surrealist fashion. The shapes had a lot of contrasting shadows and showed depth with varying sizes. They were continuing to work on this project until Thursday when my test project outline will start. I am looking forward to observing how the lesson is introduced and what dialogue will take place between the students and teacher. Gary spoke with an importer who is going to allow him to borrow some real Qaxacan sculptures. I hope these don't direct the students too much. This was a hard project to prescribe student connections, so I will see how Gary handles this and the background. I have been really busy on my thesis and have had less time to spend at the school. I will be spending more time though considering my test project this week.


Here are some examples of interesting 3D projects. The one is a high relief diorama-type project using papier mache. Need to look into more.
The next one is the silverware project. It's similar to projects that Craig and I have discussed. How high can they go? Etc. Shows sequencing skills - foundation building, stability, etc.