Past Due Assignments:
Each grade was assigned a specific artist to research. After the research was completed, the students created a project that reflected the style of that particular artist.
6th Grade - Victor Vasarely (Optical Illusions)
7th Grade - Pablo Picasso (Cubism)
8th Grade - Gustave Klimpt (Art Nouveau)
Check to make sure that your child has turned these assignments in.
Upcoming Assignment:
Prior to Christmas break, all students were given instruction on how to create color. They used tempora paints to create a color wheel using only the primary colors to make secondary and intermediary colors.
On January 3 each grade will be creating a project using these basic concepts of color.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
New Marking Period
Welcome to Art class for this nine week period. I am looking forward to experiencing different types of media and using our imaginations to create interesting projects. It is my hope that we will be able to draw, paint, print, and sculpt during the next couple of months.
Our first project is an introductory water color monogram. We will use this project to learn various water color strategies as well as learn something about each of our classmates. We are in the final stages of completion. The due date for this project will be on Monday, November 21. Lets work together to complete this project on time so that we can experiment with another medium.
Our first project is an introductory water color monogram. We will use this project to learn various water color strategies as well as learn something about each of our classmates. We are in the final stages of completion. The due date for this project will be on Monday, November 21. Lets work together to complete this project on time so that we can experiment with another medium.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Final Projects
As we near the end of the first marking period, students are trying to complete their final projects.
1st hour (6th Grade) - Painting patterns on their Pysanky Egg Sculptures. Ask your child what a Pysanky egg is.
2nd hour (8th Grade) - Shading a portrait after studying facial proportions and shading techniques. Several of the students are working in teams to replicate a portrait from a magazine
3rd/6th hours (7th Grade) - Shading half of a portrait after studying facial proportions and shading techniques. Each student chose a picture of a person from a magazine. After cutting the picture in two pieces, he/she glued one half to a paper. Now they are drawing the remaining half and using shading techniques to replicate that half.
5th hour (mixed population) - Shading half of a picture. Students chose either a picture of an animal or a person from a magazine, cut the picture in two, and are now drawing the remaining half of the picture using shading techniques.
This coming week:
All students will be completing a post-test on Wednesday, November 2. We will be reviewing for this on Tuesday.
The 1st hour class will be working studying shading techniques
The 2nd/3rd/5th/6th hour classes will be creating an abstract sculpture from cardboard.
As we near the end of the first marking period, students are trying to complete their final projects.
1st hour (6th Grade) - Painting patterns on their Pysanky Egg Sculptures. Ask your child what a Pysanky egg is.
2nd hour (8th Grade) - Shading a portrait after studying facial proportions and shading techniques. Several of the students are working in teams to replicate a portrait from a magazine
3rd/6th hours (7th Grade) - Shading half of a portrait after studying facial proportions and shading techniques. Each student chose a picture of a person from a magazine. After cutting the picture in two pieces, he/she glued one half to a paper. Now they are drawing the remaining half and using shading techniques to replicate that half.
5th hour (mixed population) - Shading half of a picture. Students chose either a picture of an animal or a person from a magazine, cut the picture in two, and are now drawing the remaining half of the picture using shading techniques.
This coming week:
All students will be completing a post-test on Wednesday, November 2. We will be reviewing for this on Tuesday.
The 1st hour class will be working studying shading techniques
The 2nd/3rd/5th/6th hour classes will be creating an abstract sculpture from cardboard.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Upcoming projects
Half of the marking period is already over. I have enjoyed working with my students on a variety of projects using different media...a personal collage using magazine pictures, symmetrical and asymmetrical experiments using construction paper, a contour line maze, and a kaleidoscope using tracing paper and colored pencils. Several of the kaleidoscopes are on display near the art room. Students are also made a sketchbook and will be doing weekly drawings on various topics.
Upcoming projects:
1st hour: Pysanky egg construction of plaster. These will be painted with patterns
2nd hour: Linoleum prints on cloth which will be made into pillows.
3rd/5th/6th hours: monochromatic painting using temperal paints and the letters of their names.
Feel free to contact me by e-mail regarding upcoming projects. I will try to post these more frequently.
Upcoming projects:
1st hour: Pysanky egg construction of plaster. These will be painted with patterns
2nd hour: Linoleum prints on cloth which will be made into pillows.
3rd/5th/6th hours: monochromatic painting using temperal paints and the letters of their names.
Feel free to contact me by e-mail regarding upcoming projects. I will try to post these more frequently.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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