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 :)

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.  

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. 

The glass and ceramic still life.

Mixed Metals Still Life

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.

Scrub! Scrap, Scrap! To clean our brushes.

Who knew box lids made such great paint trays?

Wipping off the extra water in the brush bristols.

PURPLE IS OUR FAVORITE SECONDARY COLOR!

The Elements of Art

The Elements of Art are the basic building blocks to all works of art. 

Every work of art has at least 1 element of art or like we call it in class EofA.  

The students this year created foldables to help them remember the 7 elements of art, their definitions, and some visuals to represent them.  

Paper Sculpture Contest

One Day Lesson!

To wrap up the end of the school year the middle school students participated in a Paper Sculpture contest with a theme of Amusement Park. 

7 Paper Sculpture Techniques were discussed/introduced 

They also viewed some famous paper sculpture artists that can be found at the link below.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/

Pablo Picasso's Old Guitarist

Concepts Covered:

Artist introduction- Pablo Picasso 

Art Discussion- Class Critique/Discussion on

 Picasso's Painting "The Old Guitarist"

New Material Introduced- Oil Pastels

Method/Application of Oil Pastel on Paper

Review- Patterns (A/B; ABC; Size; Color Patterns)