STUDIO THINKINGOr Thinking with Your Hands

Studio ThinkingDevelop your Craft

Engage and Persist

Envision

Express

Observe

Reflect

Stretch and Explore

Understand the Art World

EmbodiementMeaning making is based

on:

1. Our sensorimotor experience, our feelings, and visceral connection to the world

2. On various imaginative capacities for using sensorimotor processes to understand abstract concepts

3. “AS IF”…

The “Rose” Garden

We Learn Everything through our Body

We Learn because we Feel L

What is your experience with Leaves?

Learning Goals

To document one’s sensorimotor and imaginative experiences with leaves

To explore a variety of media, materials, techniques and processes

To use studio thinking in the development of artistic representations

To create a somersault book with visual, verbal and imaginative works

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Seeing…Sensing…Leaves

LEAVES: A Sensory Explorations

1. Pulled Print: Crayon rubbing with watercolor wash

2. Complementary Leaf Painting

3. Scientific drawing with watercolors

4. Expressive line drawing colored pencils

5. Representational leaf collage

6. 3D Wire Leaf

7. Mixed media…Your choice!

Documentation of Studio Thinking: Somersault Book

Cover with Title and Name

Five Leaf Explorations

Leaf OR Fall Facts

Poetic or Narrative Rendition about Leaves

Personal Reflection on Goals

Binding