Wednesday, September 28, 2011

6th Grade Paintings


Artist Trading Cards
Artist Trading Cards (ATC) are miniature artworks done on paper the size of playing cards and are usually traded when finished.  You can do anything you want on an ATC including drawing, painting, collage (cutting up paper or magazines and gluing the pieces down in a different way).  Here are some examples:
Amazing painted spider web

 This student wants a Hippo for Christmas

 Animal Rights Collage



Monday, September 19, 2011

6th Grade One-Point Perspective Drawings

One-Point Perspective Drawings
Students learned how to draw in one-point perspective.  Drawing in perspective helps the artist achieve realism, depth, and space in the artwork.  They also considered the composition of their artwork and carefully balanced the objects on the page.  Students applied their knowledge by drawing square or rectangle objects flying towards you in space!








One-Point Perspective Aerial View of City



Students learned how to draw in one-point perspective.  Drawing in perspective helps the artist achieve realism, depth, and space in the artwork.  They also considered the composition of their artwork and carefully balanced the objects on the page.  Students applied their knowledge by drawing an aerial view of a city in one-point perspective and coloring their buildings look help their city look three dimensional!  












Paper Marbling (Suminagashi) and Haikus
Each student made several beautiful pieces of marbled paper using liquid watercolor paint and shaving cream.  Then they wrote a Haiku, a Japanese style of poetry that uses syllables of 5, 7, 5, and wrote it on their beautiful paper!  Double click the image to make it bigger so you can read some of the Haikus


Friday, September 16, 2011

8th Grade Self-Portraits

Typography Self-Portraits- A picture is worth a 1,000 words

Typography is the art or process of using text or fonts to help create or enhance meaning of words. Students used typography and value (shading) to create a self-portrait.  Double click on the pictures to enlarge the photo so you can read some of the text!







Awesome work 8th graders!!




8th Grade Tiles
For our first project, each student glazed a recycled tile.  I want a whole wall like this.

They look great together!