Art with Ms. Doyle

New Media English 11 Response Writing Curricular Competencies (Learning Standards) being assessed: I can         Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and extend thinking I can         Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual and multimodal texts ·        Apply: put to use for practical purpose ·        Multimodal: texts that combine two or more means of communication (visual, audio, gestural, spatial) ·        Comprehend: make sense of ·        Reading strategies: making predictions, asking questions, paraphrasing/summarizing, making connections, reflecting, analyzing parts, determining importance ·...

How do I begin to create a political cartoon? First you must ask yourself, “What is the issue I want to write about?” There are so many choices, I’m going to try and help you narrow these down. Here is a brief list to help you think about what topic might be interesting to you, as well as some things to think about as you begin. Topic Ideas: ·        Step 1 Find a Current Event – Choose a topic and find your voice. What is it you want to say about the topic? Once you select your topic, come up with a summary of what you are trying to get across to your audience. Possible topics: Health Care (Affordable Health care, Ebola, Obesity, Antivaxers, etc.) Military/War (Conflict in the Middle East, ISIS, etc.) Immigration (Immigration policy, Treatment of Immigrants, etc.) Education (Education Policy, Importance of Education, etc.) Current Event Topics (Elections, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc.) ·       ...

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This web site is designed to foster visual creativity by making stories out of photos You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to your building set of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 - tell a story in pictures. Based on your 5 images, you will be tasked to write a story. When completed, you will title and save your stories. You will then be able to copy the link and place it on your own blog Example 1 - It's all a Blur Example 2 - A drifter in the wind Click here to get started ***  Please be sure to describe what the link is for – no one wants to look at a blank blog post with a unknown link Also – when adding a link, please title it while embedding the link so that it is evident what the link is bringing the viewer to. Get started on your visual storytelling!

Drawing Hands Select one of the options below.  Use Pen & Ink, Conté Crayon, or Soft Pastel or Oil Pastel.  You may choose color using realistic skin tones or crazy colors  or B/W .  But be aware that drawing hands are THE most difficult part of the human body to draw. Many budding artists I know go to herculean lengths to avoid drawing them. They’re just so COMPLICATED and if anything is off, even a little bit, it’s painfully obvious. However, once you’ve mastered drawing hands, you can add that to your superpowers. Remember, “draw what you SEE, not what your brain thinks it should look like.” Also, look at the NEGATIVE SPACE between the fingers! Get those shapes right and you will also have drawn the hand correctly. Option One:  1 GIANT hand-  at least 5 to 6 times larger than life  Instructions:  1.  The position of the hand must be “difficult”- fingers bent, slanted, foreshortened, etc.  No...