Hello!

Welcome to a recap of Ms. Holt’s Fall 2021 semester. 

Blog posts begin with a link to my school’s page, as well as an article written about my involvement in the community. Then, posts are organized by lessons that have been taught throughout the semester with examples of student artwork, as well as videos from class. To the left of the webpage, there are icons linked to my social media where my personal artwork can be viewed.  You will also find links to my resume, EDA, classroom management plan, 2 detailed lesson plans, and my evaluations from my co-operating teacher, Ms. Kelly Soloninka. 

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Lesson Plan 1: Atmospheric Perspective

Students honed their watercolor skills and learned about atmospheric perspective by creating silhouetted landscape paintings with a tetradic color scheme. 

Lesson plan and performance assessment rubric can be found in the links to the left. 

Finished student paintings from the atmospheric perspective lesson.

Demo for part of the Atmospheric perspective landscape painting.

Lesson Plan 2: Graphic Recording

Using previously learned gesture drawing skills, students learned about graphic recording, a process where one sketches out key points in a meeting or class as a form of note taking. Students were able to build their drawing skills while learning a useful skill that can be applied to real life and their other classes at school. 

See links on the left for written lesson plan and performance assessment rubric. 

Students were shown a live demo of graphic recording and real-life examples from the Graphic recording club. They practiced recording each others stories.

Students took turns telling stories while classmates recorded.

Middle School Art Club with Ms. Holt

Every Monday and Thursday 3:00-4:30

Room W1 in the Art Building

Students were introduced to value by learning about light sources, watching a demonstration of direct observation drawing, and creating value scales and practicing different shading techniques

Student worked on their direct observational skills by doing contour drawings of still-lifes set up in the classroom.

Students learned about the practice of gesture to build a plan for a drawing. We practiced this with Ms. Holt’s Gesture Game. Random prompts were given and students had 2 minutes to come up with an idea and gesture out a rough drawing. 

After learning about line and contour, students had fun practicing blind contour drawings of each other. 

Re-purposing old doors as canvases to have some expressive fun with acrylic paint