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| Just a Few of the finished covers and character designs! |
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Middle School Comic Book Club
The last two weeks of CBC the students have been working to complete their tye-dyed shirts and comic book posters.
A lot of hard work but we still had fun times.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Color Theory & 1pt. Perspective
Who knew learning how to draw a shape in one point perspective could lead to beautiful works of abstract art?
This year's 9 week sculpture class has been learning about color schemes and one point perspective. We started off by reviewing primary vs. secondary colors and color mixing. From there we learned that when we combine colors together into groups, we are creating a color scheme.
Once they created all five groups, the students selected their favorite color scheme. With their favorite color scheme in mind, they began to raid my magazine drawers for pages and ads that had samples of their needed colors. The end result...a lot of paper scraps on the floor.
The magazine pages were then cut into strips or circles (the student's choice) to add texture and color to their backgrounds.
Then using cardboard as their "canvas" the students drew their favorite arrangement of shapes in one point perspective. Cut out the shape arrangement. Then cardboard shapes were painted with colors from their selected color schemes.
Concepts Covered:
Low Relief Sculpture
Variety of Color Schemes
1 point Perspective
This year's 9 week sculpture class has been learning about color schemes and one point perspective. We started off by reviewing primary vs. secondary colors and color mixing. From there we learned that when we combine colors together into groups, we are creating a color scheme.
Color Schemes we focused on:
Warm
Cool
Primary
Secondary
Analogous
Complementary
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| screenshot from color scheme powerpoint |
We practiced drawing assorted shapes in groups using one point perspective.
Each group had to use 7-11 shapes
Each group had its own vanishing point and horizon line
Each group was then colored in using a different color scheme
5 groups of shapes= 5 different color schemes
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| 2 student examples of practice pages |
The magazine pages were then cut into strips or circles (the student's choice) to add texture and color to their backgrounds.
Then using cardboard as their "canvas" the students drew their favorite arrangement of shapes in one point perspective. Cut out the shape arrangement. Then cardboard shapes were painted with colors from their selected color schemes.
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| Examples of Cool Color Scheme and Analogous Color Schemes |
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| Example of Primary Color Scheme |
Despite all the snow days and the crazy testing schedule the students were able to create beautiful and eye catching works of abstract art.
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| The classroom mascot and my teacher's exemplar of the project. |
Monday, February 9, 2015
Art Room Sinks!
I think after 3 years in this classroom, I have finally figured out a system that works for both myself and my students when it comes to keeping the art room sinks clean!
Everything from the paintbrushes to the paint rags has a place to be...and if the students don't remember hopefully the signs will help...wishful thinking :)
Monday, October 13, 2014
Group Critique Day!
Level 1 Arts Majors
The students are about 1/3rd of the way done with their self-portraits, inspired by Chuck Close and his amazing grids.
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| We are working to not only increase our art skills but our art vocabulary too! |
When talking about another student's artwork, students were to use their art terms (i.e. shading, value, texture, contrast, line, etc.) to talk the positives that they saw and the areas that could be improved upon with more work.
All About That Mood Lighting!!!
Level 2 Art Majors
Before we started working on our final still life drawings of the quarter the students had two days to create a few practice drawings with the charcoal. These practice days are built in to allow the students time to experiment with the new materials and see what techniques they prefer to use when working with this very messy material.
3 still life arrangements were set up with intense dramatic lighting, for all the students to see the shadows and highlights a little easier (their personal still life arrangements will also have a dramatic spot light as well).
They started by marking in the basic shapes of their still life drawings then began creating detail with the black and white charcoal.
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| The glass and ceramic still life. |
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| Mixed Metals Still Life |
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| Themed Still Life- Nautical |
2nd Grade Color Wheels
For our second project of the school year second grade is learning about the primary and secondary colors using paint!!!
We had a very exciting class experimenting with mixing our primary (red, yellow, blue) colors to create the 3 secondary colors (orange, green, and purple). Cleaning our brushes and placing our artwork on a drying rack were also new concepts covered this class.
We had a very exciting class experimenting with mixing our primary (red, yellow, blue) colors to create the 3 secondary colors (orange, green, and purple). Cleaning our brushes and placing our artwork on a drying rack were also new concepts covered this class.
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| Scrub! Scrap, Scrap! To clean our brushes. |
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| Who knew box lids made such great paint trays? |
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| Wipping off the extra water in the brush bristols. |
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| PURPLE IS OUR FAVORITE SECONDARY COLOR! |
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