Alter Egos and Logos

Last Saturday, there were various things happening at once. Chelsea was going to present a new lesson. The lesson was based on the alter egos made the week before, but that week there were a few students who were absent as well as not completed with their alter egos. In the beginning of the day, the students who were not completed and did not start their alter egos sat at a table so I could help anyone who needed help. During this time, the other students worked in their sketchbooks.

We could tell at the beginning of class that the students were a little more active than usual. I thought it was because the students were getting more comfortable with their classmates as well as the class in general. The lesson that Chelsea planned was to start creating a logo for their alter ego which will be transferred to white shirts in the next class. Chelsea showed a Powerpoint, but there were a few students who were not paying attention by playing with the projector screen’s rope. Chelsea showed the class a clip from Art 21, the artist Trenton Doyle Hancock which worked out very well with the overall lesson, but some students could not get over that his alter ego was wearing underwear.

The students worked really well on their logos, but they got done quicker than we thought with the drawing and transferring onto sandpaper. There was about thirty minutes left in the class, and the students were running around, crawling under tables, yelling at each other, and other activities that didn’t include art making. Chelsea decided to cut long sheets of paper so the students can draw on these in groups. The class seemed less chaotic once they had an activity to do.

Next lesson, I believe that we should have an extra activity at the end of our lesson just in case students are completed with their projects early, or we can bring out the large pieces of paper that we saved from last week for the students to continue drawing on.