Allie Wahlgren's Art gallery

Dot day is an international day that celebrates creativity, courage, and collaboration. Therefore, to celebrate this harmonious day we incorporated our art lesson with a language arts lesson. First, we read  The Dot  by Peter Reynolds. After reading our story, we were asked to create a piece of artwork that contained a dot and a few different mediums, such as markers, oil pastels, crayons, sharpies, colored pencils, watercolors, etc. After we finished our artwork we used a paintbrush to coat our work with water to see what mediums bled or didn't bleed . Here I used oil pastels, markers, and watercolor paints. In my mind, I was creating a sunset using a bunch of different dots that would eventually combine to form a sunset but I believe that it turned out more as a tie-die-looking piece of artwork.  Extention Activity: A math teacher probably for the grade 6th and up, could have her students draw a variety of dots that differ in size. They could then use a ruler to explore...

For this picture, I captured the lines that are visible on the heating duct in my room. This picture represents the lines on the duct.  For this picture, I captured a picture of a print that is of a sunset that was taken last summer. I created it in black and white to really bring out the light to dark colors on the sunset. This picture represents value.  This is a picture of my curtain and I used this picture to represent shapes because the shape that is displayed here is unique and uniform. For this picture, I chose a salt rock lamp as it casts a showdown and really gives it a 3-D look. I used this to represent space.   For this first picture, I chose a rug in my house. This rug is used to represent the texture and our sense of touch.