Art of Apex High School

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #1

That Moment They Realize The Outlet Has Become A Grill

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Back in 2009 I started giving my students post it notes and setting them free to create art throughout the school. It wasn't long till one of the students figured out how to create a portrait. They used another student as a model and create the portrait you see above.

In 2010, two groups of students decided to create post it note mural. Everyone brought in a pack and the set off to complete this one of Jack Sparrow.

The following semester, 2011, a ten more groups joined the adventure. One group create this portrait of Leo Dicaprio. It made the cover of SchoolArts magazine.

Back in the day, we used Photoshop to create the map used as a guide to make the murals. Here is a link to a post title Post It Notes Explained. Today, I'm sure there are plenty of apps that can do the magic for you.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #2

That Moment They Realize You Brought Real Fish for Gyotaku

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Everyone hated this project! But some of the students trooper-ed through. See more here!

Monday, June 26, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #3

That Moment You Realize That Shirt Ain't Gonna Bleach No Matter How Much You Pour In The Bucket!

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Sometimes it works...

Textile designs by reverse dyeing the fabric using bleach

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #4

That Moment You Realize Blowing Up 2000 Balloons Will Take More Than One Class.

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Click here for the making of Monalloon!

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #5

That Moment You Realize The Wind Ain't Gonna Blow.

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Should You Decide to Do This, There is a Plan

Friday, June 23, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #6

That Moment You Realize They Don't Know What Cassettes Are.

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Cassette Art isn't for Everyone See Samples, click here

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Top Ten Projects You Should Never Do: #7

That Moment You Realize Your Skittle Portrait Looks Nothing Like You.

Project Flop: Good Lessons From a Bad Teacher

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Expressive Skittle Portraits: Free Lesson Plan Download

I would never do this project again. However, if you are crazy enough to try it, here are a few helpful hints.

1. Gluing down the Skittles is a time consuming process. This project took way longer than I thought it would. However, we made rather large portraits. If I were to do this over again, I would certainly reduce the amount of squares when applying the mosaic filter. Maybe keep it down to 40 x 46.

2. Skittles are not cheap. I Spent over $100 buying Skittles and I bought them in bulk bags at Target, and once Target sold out, at Walmart. The students also brought in bags. However, if I were to do this project again, limiting the amount of squares when applying the mosaic filter would also reduce the amount of Skittles required.

3. Skittles attract unwanted visitors. It was amazing how many students from other classes stopped by just to see how things were going during this project. They didn’t show that type of curiosity when we were working on value scales. We also had ants. If you leave one Skittle on the floor, an ant will find it. That ant will then call all his ant friends because ants apparently like to share.

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