Monday 3-15-21 Meeting with Chloe Russell and Illustrator. 2:00PM-3:00PM

This week was another continuation of the previous weeks where the Illustrator had added more pages to her artist book based on her initial piece of writing. Since the previous weeks, the illustrator had produced seven more drawings! Concluding the book at thirteen pages! Chloe asked the Illustrator if she was comfortable with moving on and decided yes she was. 

After Chloe and I were finished giving the illustrator feedback on her artist book, Chloe then moved into the plan for that day’s lesson which was to prepare for the illustration group’s lesson later that week, by practicing packaging design. Chloe was giving prompts such as these to prepare her illustrators for working with real clients. 

Chloe asked the Illustrator to brainstorm possible sold items that she would like to create a design for packaging on. The Illustrator decided on creating ‘packaging’ or branding for an MSS bakery that sold sugar free Banana, White Chocolate Chip cookies. I’m in love with the uniqueness of this item the illustrator chose. 

When teaching in my own classroom, I will give a lot of creative liberty to my students because I feel like students learn the most when they feel they are in control of their projects/ assignments.

Thursday 3-17-21 12:00PM-1:00PM Illustration Group with Chloe

Today was packaging design with the whole group! There were four artists who joined the zoom meeting. Chloe began the lesson by showing a real example of packaging that was designed by an illustrator. These products were art supplies that featured illustrations made out of the same materials the inside of the packaging contained. 

To do our own twist on this, Chloe asked the class to only make art today using a black pen and not color. We were trying to make art that could potentially go on top of pen packaging to show the potential of the pen. Similar to Monday, Chloe asked the class what they felt would be a good subject to draw to show off the pens technical potential. We started by drawing Octopi and then we also did an orca, after that the class concluded. Next week there will be an organization visiting MSSMN and observing the arts classes to see if the organization is doing a good job or not.