Mary+Van+Roekel+SEPS

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//__ A Little About Me: __//
I teach K - 12 art at Sleepy Eye Public Schools Elementary Art K - 6, Elementary Computer Art, Junior High Year A and B, Drawing/Painting, Advanced Drawing/Painting, Pottery/Sculpture, Advanced Pottery/Sculpture, Studio Art and Graphic Design

__// Contact Information: //__
email: mary.vanroekel@sleepyeye.mntm.org website: [|Sleepy Public School - Art Dept.]

For //**Graphic Design**// I show this PowerPoint of the Principles of Design applied to photographs.


In **//Advanced Drawing/Painting//** I like to have the students come up with their own project ideas. They often want to do the same thing over and over so I ask them to shuffle up their medium, style, principles, elements and subject emphasized.

The following file is a way I give them examples and let them have fun choosing their own project. Some times the "wheel" doesn't spin the way I would like it, but if they tap somewhere within the circle it usually gives a random spin. Then I give them the following checklist that they must turn in with their project.

This next one I borrowed from [|www.sharemylesson.com] The kids had fun with this.

Human Figure Drawing is intimidating to most so I have students start with a measure each other lesson. Then we discuss body and head proportions before we start drawing.

The three files below are the introduction to my handbuilt units in //**Pottery**//. (Modified from some of Neil's files) I show these before doing demonstrations of each method.