Final Fingerprint

Just about everybody has completed their Fingerprint Paintings so, this week we will be getting ready for the Science Fair on Friday by mounting and displaying your art work.

Grade 6 Studio Work
1. Mount artwork;
2. Write Artist's Statement;
3. Complete grading RUBRIC;

In Your Development Sketchbook
Write a reflection about the Fingerprint Paintings describing how this project developed. Remember to connect to Science and what you were learning while doing your Forensics Unit.

Think of these questions when you are writing:
1. What did you know about fingerprints before we started this project?
2. What have you learned about fingerprints since completing this project?
3. What is the single most interesting fact/idea you have discovered while working on this project?

Fingerprints 3

This week the students were able to trace their fingerprints on large A3 or A2 sized paper and have started working independently on their paintings.

Nearly all of you were able to use the projector to trace an enlarged version of your fingerprint. Your assignment now is to choose how to represent your fingerprint using colour. You are supposed to decide which pairs of complementary colours to use (Red & Green, Yellow & Violet OR Blue & Orange + the tints and shades of those two colours). Remember to be imaginative with your colours

Grade 6 Studio Work
1. Complete tracing of print.
2. Using Acrylics to paint your fingerprint using complementary colours.
3. Don't forget to use tints and shades.

While waiting for the projector
1. Complete Subway Car contour drawing in Development Sketchbook.
2. Complete a Short-Brush Stroke painting in Dev. Sketchbk.

Fingerprints 2

This week Grade 6 successfully researched about fingerprint patterns. In their development sketchbooks they did an initial sketch of one of their own fingerprints. After sketching the print on an A4 size page they identified what kind of print they each have by naming the characteristics of the print patterns. It was fun to see kids holding their fingers up to each other and asking, "But do you see that loop there? Does that mean it is arched or just regular?" All of the students were very discerning and showed great observation skills as they explored their own prints. The final sketches in their Development Sketchbooks were impressive, both for their size and detail.

Grade 6 Studio Work
1. Complete large fingerprint drawing.
2. Identify characteristics of fingerprint pattern.
3. Label print (which finger is the print from, what kind of print is it).
4. Choose colours for painting.

Fingerprints 1

The Grade 6 is doing a Forensics unit in Science class and so their next art project is going to be a large painting of one of their own fingerprints. The students will paint using only 2 complementary colours + the shades and tints of those colours. These paintings will be a unique portrait of each student.

This week the students explored what a fingerprint is. Some of the words they used to define a fingerprint are: identity, visible, recordable, unique, incriminating, code, password, everywhere, skin, oil, useful, forensics, DNA, everybody has them and they are everywhere.

The students also experimented with how to record a fingerprint in their Development Sketchbooks. The three types of prints made were an ink print, an acrylic paint print and a cocoa and oil print. There were varying degrees of success but by far the most difficult one to "capture" was the cocoa and oil print.

6th Grade Homework (see the Calendar for due dates)
In your Development Sketchbooks research the following vocabulary for fingerprints: Arch, Loop, Whorl, Accidental, Composite. For each word write a definition in your own words and draw an example fingerprint. The size of your drawings can be quite small but 3cm x 3cm should be the smallest.