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Art Reflection Prompts

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Success Criteria for Writing a Post

Student will include:

  • Title of Work
  • Description of work, including size, media and special techniques.
  • Planning: what did you do to plan out your work? Did it help or not help with your project? 
  • Sensory properties: How did you use the different elements of art: line, shape, colour, value, texture, and space?
  • Formal properties: Does you artwork have one or more principles of art: balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, unity, variety, contract? How?
  • Expressive properties: How does this your art make you feel? What kind of reaction do you want from others?
  • Craftsmanship: Does your work show good craftsmanship? Explain your answer. 
  • Respond to "I Create Original Art"
  • Choose one more Behaviour and write about that.
  • Analyze your work honestly and explain your thinking using art vocabulary. 
  • Provide evidence to support your writing by specific references to your art. 

 

APPROPRIATE RESPONSE:

Your writing analyzes your work process honestly and explains your thinking clearly using art vocabulary. Pictures provide visual evidence to support your writing. 

“For this project I used oil pastels, and ended up gaining more proficiency then I had before..I learned that you can use the burnishing technique with oil pastels too.Not only does this make the colors look more vibrant but it also blends better if you apply it in layers.Using this technique I colored the flamingos pink with peach,yellow, red and white pastels.They blended well and and gave the flamingos a natural color.”

 

“My art is original because I took an idea I found on Pinterest and made it my own by changing the animals to flamingos. I also included a sunset for the background instead of solid black like the original because I wanted to include a beach theme. I used a picture I took on a family trip for the sunset, which made the drawing even more my own because the photo was my work”. 

 

INAPPROPRIATE RESPONSE

Writing is surface level, thoughts aren’t clearly explained. Your photos are related to what you write about but don’t provide clear evidence.

“My art is original because I did it. I came up with the ideas and that makes it my own. I’m really happy with my work.”

 

 

Artistic Behaviour Art Reflection Prompts

  BEHAVIOUR   
RESPONDING

I Seek Inspiration

What artists, artworks or art concepts did you evaluate prior to creating this work?

How did evaluating these works influence your view of art?

What impact did the artists, artwork or art concept make on you?

How did this impact inspire your work?

 CREATING
I Observe

Did you study "details" in visual, audible, and written contexts?

Did you record these in your sketchbook?

Did you apply these details in your work?

  I Plan 

Did you draw multiple sketches or thumbnails?

Did you take notes on your ideas, play with colours, mindmap, mood board or other notes?

Or did you "go" with your first idea, or no idea at all?

 
I Create Original Art

How did you use your own unique ideas in your work?

Did you use a source for inspiration, and then combine it with your own ideas to make it original? 

How did you apply unique ideas in your work?

Explain how you combined an inspirational source with your own ideas. 

  I Develop Skills 

Did you learn new techniques or processes as part of the work for this project?

Did you gain skill with familiar materials?

Describe how your knowledge of a familiar material improved.

What new skills and/or techniques did you incorporate into your work? 

  I Take Risks 

Did you try something that you weren’t sure about as part of this project?

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?

Describe your experience experimenting with new art making methods.

Describe your experience working with unfamiliar materials. 

  I Solve Problems

How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked?

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?

Explain how you overcame material, physical or conceptual limitations.

Were you able to generate solutions independently?

Describe a decision you had to make due to unexpected issues, accidents, or mistakes.

  I Communicate 

What is this artwork intended to say?

What issues are you examining through your artwork?

How is this artwork about who you are or what you like?

What message is your art conveying to your audience?

How does your artwork reflect personal feelings, likes, or dislikes? 

  We Collaborate 

Did you ask another student for feedback during your work process?

Did someone help you understand important information or inspire you?

Did you take on a leadership role?

Explain how collaborating with others was beneficial to the creative process.

How did working with other students improve the outcome of the final project? 

PRESENTING I Reflect

When did you step back and analyze you work during this project?

Did you consider how ideas would work before you tried them?

Describe how your end product different from your original plan.

Give an example of a decision you made during the art making process.

  I Present

Where would you consider showcasing this work? i.e. display case, art show, art contest, portfolio, other?

Why do you consider this piece show worthy?

What would need to be done to prepare this piece of art for display? i.e. matting, frame, hanging wire, etc.?

CONNECTING I Connect

Did you find inspiration from another artist or culture?

Did you use technology as a tool?

Did you participate as an art community member?

Explain how your art was influence by your community, culture or traditions.

How do you envision your artwork impacting your community or society?

   

 

Based on Ian Sands' Reflection Prompts -  https://artofsouthb.weebly.com/reflect.html

 

ARISTIC BEHAVIOURS RUBRIC

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1degHsj-J_-dWuKvv44QMHAiajhaRxHlD6HspgEfaAX4/edit#gid=0 

 

 

Weekly TAB Rubric

    Engaged  Compliant  Disengaged 
Inspire 

Seeks artists and artworks as inspiration 

Takes own reference photos

Maintains a sketchbook of warm-ups and ideas

Explores new media and techniques

   
 
Design 

Develops a plan

Designs original projects

Researches new skills and techniques 

     
Create 

Uses class time productively

Persists even when problems arise

Strives to use visual language to express ideas 

     
Reflect 

Completes weekly blog posts and documents progress

Considers ways to grow and improve

Seeks peer reviews 

     
         

 

Other Ideas for Talking About Your Art

 

  1. Play the One Word Game. Take cards with descriptor words (Nervous, Sorrow, Fearful) and rotate around the room to different artwork stations. Can use artist prints or student arts.  Students lay down descriptor cards that best fit the image and explain why they picked that card. A "judge" at each station (like in Apples to Apples_) awards the winner all the cards. The person with the most descriptor cards wins. (Idea from https://www.theartofed.com/2017/10/23/get-middle-school-students-talk-art/)
  2. Use prompts (see below). You can also talk about the message of your artwork and why it is important to you.
  3. Use interesting stories to discuss art work. Make them relevant to the student.
  4. Show a piece and ask students for their a) Response to seeing the artwork. b)What makes them feel this way, and c)One specific question that they would ask the artist. 
  5. Use online tools to share reflections - blogs, QR codes.

 

 

Prompts are adapted from Ian Sands’ article, “The Secret to Drawing Meaningful Reflection Out of Your Students”
at http://www.theartofed.com/2015/05/22/the-secret-to-drawing-meaningful-reflection-out-of-your-students/

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