Thursday, November 21, 2013
Notan 2.0
Check out some Notan collages from quarter 2 7th grade students below:
This assignment explores contrast, proportion, balance, and space. Students learned about these things and then created a design that demonstrates that understanding.
This assignment explores contrast, proportion, balance, and space. Students learned about these things and then created a design that demonstrates that understanding.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
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.
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.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Gifs part 2
7th Grade digital art students started the grading period out with a GIF project. First they drew a character that served as an alter ego for themselves. Some students chose to do animal versions of themselves, superheroes, athletes, or just them in a different outfit. Then we used the digital painting software ArtRage to create a background painting on the computers. We put all of the images into photoshop and edited everything and created frames of animation. Lastly we used gifpal.com to create our GIFs. I'm really proud of the work that these students did. Check out the great animations below.
Digital Shape Collages
Seventh Grade digital art students made these quick digital collages using the shape tool in photoshop. This week we are doing digital collages using images that tell the viewer about us. The students did these practice images to play around with the layering tool in photoshop. Students were exploring interesting ways to layer images in a composition. Look out for the real collages soon, I just really liked these and wanted to share them.
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.
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.
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