What've we been doing lately?

Lately I've been slacking on the weekly updates. So I want to post one mega-update with some of the things art students have been doing lately.

8th grade underground railroad quilts

 7th grade clay masks

 

8th Grade patterned pottery

6th grade color scheme landscape paintings

8th grade still life compositions

Op Art 2.0

8th grade op art drawings from quarter 2. 

Weekly Update 11/04/13 - 11/08/13

Sixth Grade

Sixth graders spent most of the week working with the element of shape. We talked about the difference between organic and geometric shapes and when we all knew what those were students created creatures using only organic or geometric shapes. These drawings were finished on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday we worked on beginning our newspaper sculptures which we will continue next week.

Seventh Grade

In seventh grade we discussed balance, proportion, and space and talked about the Japanese design concept of Notan. We made collages which represented our new found knowledge and mimicked Notan through our use of color and symmetry. 

 Eighth Grade

Eighth graders spent the week learning about coil building pottery. They made a coil built vessel this week, which are drying out as I type this. I'll fire them next week and hopefully we can glaze the week after that. Pictures should come soon.

Weekly Update 10/28/13 - 11/01/13

Sixth Grade

We spent the week looking at lines and texture this week. We talked about types of lines and how to use contour lines to create simple but detailed drawings. Then we created visual texture rubbings and on Thursday we created actual texture using paper. We had a quiz on Friday testing our new knowledge.

Seventh Grade

We talked about what abstract art is about, and then looked at the elements line, shape, and value. Students created abstract drawings on black paper which displayed their understanding of these three elements.

Eighth Grade

Just like seventh grade, we looked at line, shape, and value. But in 8th grade we talked about op art and how to create optical illusions using value. The goal was to create a drawing that showed the illusion of 3-dimensionality. These were finished on Friday.

Graffiti Tags

Eighth grade students worked this past week on creating graffiti tags which somehow represented themselves (either through imagery, symbolism, color, line, etc.). The drawings were really successful, and I can't wait to see future projects from this group based on their first work in my class. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Update 10/21/13 - 10/25/13

Sorry for the lack of weekly updates recently, with the end of the first grading period things got a bit hectic and I couldn't find the time to post anything. Now we have started the 2nd grading period, which means all new students and new artists to highlight. 

Sixth Grade

In sixth grade we started out with our self-portrait collages. These were mostly finished by Friday, and may need a few finishing touches before they get posted on here, but keep a look out for them.

Seventh Grade

Seventh graders started out by talking about radial symmetry and creative lettering styles. We used our new knowledge to create abstract designs using our names which highlight radial symmetry. Finished pieces coming soon!

 

Eighth Grade

In eighth grade we started out by talking about graffiti (styles, meanings, legalities, among other things) and about how to incorporate our own personal style into a graffiti tag of our names. Students finished their names this week and they'll get hung in the hallway soon. 

Digital Art

Digital students are working on creating GIFs that animate a character moving through a background. Students drew the characters and used cameras to digitize them and edit them in photoshop. They used ArtRage to create digital paintings of the backgrounds. Next week we'll use gifpal to animate them.