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1. Marvelous Marbled Underwater Scenes

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Walkup, Nancy

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In an effort to intrigue her fifth graders with a novel and spontaneous approach to line and movement, Nancy Walkup introduced paper marbling as a means to create remarkable decorative surface designs. To marble paper, some kind of pigment, usually oil or acrylic paint, is floated upon the surface of a liquid such as water or liquid starch. In the method historically used in Europe, water and carrageenan, a gel made from seaweed, are combined to make a thickened liquid, or size, upon which oil paints are floated and moved with tools to make flowing patterns. She first tried a number of different methods, including some commercial kits, but had the most success with the simplest ingredients--colored chalk and water. The procedures and objectives for making marble paper are described in this article. For this lesson, students used different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.

Published
2005

2. Teaching Art with Music: Collages Inspired by the Art and Music of Romare Bearden

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Walkup, Nancy

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Have you ever thought of using music as a subject for art? When the author discovered that her third graders studied jazz in music class every February, it seemed an opportune time for her to simultaneously focus on music in art, specifically through the work of African-American artist Romare Bearden. To familiarize her third-grade students with various musical instruments and introduce the unit, she borrowed a number of instruments from other teachers and set them up in the middle of the room as a still life. As students drew them, they experimented with the sounds they made and listened to Romare Bearden Revealed, a recording by the Branford Marsalis Quintet inspired by Bearden's artwork and including one of his own jazz compositions, "Seabreeze." They also carefully looked at and discussed a number of Bearden's collages based on musical themes and subjects, comparing and contrasting the elements of music with the elements of art.

Published
2005

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