Unit Overview: Students learned about foreshortening by drawing close-ups of animal faces. Students colored their animal faces using oil pastel to show texture. Boop the snoot. Is basically means to poke the nose. Why? I don't know. I just teach here. I don't come up with this stuff.
But booping snoots is popular in my school. I don't know why. But it reminded me of the stuffed animals that were so popular in the 2000s. "The Dog". Do you remember those large nosed, big headed dogs, like the pug, daschund, and german shepherd? I do. I think I may have even owned one of those stuffies. Thus was inspired this lesson. One of the concepts we covered is foreshortening. Foreshortening is when an object that close to you appears really large and then dramatically gets smaller. Like imagine someone with their hand blocking a picture being taken. Their hand will be HUGE. And then get small quickly. And then behind all that, the small face of the person trying to hide. That is foreshortening in a nutshell. And so, with first grade, we drew HUGE noses and little facial features, trying to capture foreshortening in art. We also discussed texture. We wanted to demonstrate the difference between an animals smooth nose and rough fur. So, we used our fingers to blend the oil pastel for thee smooth nose. We left choppy lines for the fur to show the rough texture of the fur. The students really enjoyed this, and so did I. Not bad for a bunch of nose pictures.
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