One Point Perspective
This week, sixth graders will begin designing their city scapes in one or two-point perspective. On Monday, the students will use rulers to accurately draw guidelines to their vanishing point(s) in an effort to make skyscrapers or other structures appear to be three dimensional. Next week, finishing touches will be added. This will include careful outlining in black marker and shading in with colored pencils. Soon, the art room will be filled with creative architects designing the next great city skyline!
Pop Art
This week, seventh graders will continue to work on our Andy Warhol inspired Pop Art projects. The students have worked with tireless effort and precision to recreate a product from their everyday life into a work of art. They have been using lightboxes and the sunlight from the art room windows to trace/repeat their image four times on 12 X 12 drawing paper. This week, we will begin to add the exact colors from the real product to the drawings using colored pencils and markers. The results should be a feast for the eyes!
A Color Study through Design
The eighth grade classes will begin a brand new project this week. First, each student will create their own design based on four specific directions that I provide. Then, they will repeat their design seven more times on a 12 x 18 piece of drawing paper. Once their design is completed, they will begin painting. This project is an exercise in mixing paints and developing a better understanding of color. In addition, the students will become acquainted with art vocabulary words such as analogous, complementary, monochromatic, opaque, neutral, shade, tint, and value. Each of the eight sections will be painted with a different color scheme.
Andy Warhol
- Sixth grade students just completed their Animal Eye project, which was inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keefe. Our next project with focus on one and two-point perspective. Each student will design their own cityscape while applying their knowledge of the rules of perspective.
- Seventh grade students wrapped up their contour line shoe drawings. Next up, we will kick off our Pop Art project inspired by the works of Andy Warhol. In order to start this project, students will need a wrapper or a label from a product by Tuesday, September 25th.
- Eighth grade students are still diligently working on their Self-Portrait projects. The results have been fantastic! We will be completing this project by the end of the week.
6th Grade: Last week, sixth grade students completed the Color Wheel painting project. This project required all students to identify the primary, secondary, and intermediate colors on the color wheel. They reinforced this knowledge by mixing paints to create the intermediate colors on their own "wheel." In addition, they created a tint and a shade for all of their "pure" colors. A tint is created when white is added to a color. A shade is created when you add black. The sixth graders were encouraged to paint neatly and accurately within the color wheel boundaries. This week we will begin the "Animal Eye" project inspired by Georgia O'Keefe.
7th Grade: On Monday, the seventh graders will complete their "Namely Me" collages inspired by the works of Henri Matisse. Next, we will move on to our contour line drawing unit. Each student will draw three different views of various shoes with pencil. Later, they will outline their drawings in marker. We will discuss the various styles and types of lines that can be used to create interest and detail. The students will be encouraged to vary the thinness and thickness of their lines as well as explore patterns to create their works of art.
8th Grade: The eighth grade classes have started the Self-Portrait Unit and will continue to work on them throughout the week. Each student is using a photograph of themselves to create a self-portrait inspired by the grid process used by artist Chuck Close. After measuring and designing their grids, the students began analyzing the values and shapes in each numbered box on their photograph. Then, they began using pencils to enlarge what they saw on the doubled grid on their drawing paper.
