Pinwheels for Peace: The Update!

Earlier this semester we had the chance to express our ideas on peace, equality, tolerance, bigotry, and living in harmony on a pinwheel. We joined the international peace movement and wrote our thoughts about these topics and then visually expressed them on the other side of the pinwheel. We had such a turn out that even Channel 2 News came and did a story on this project! HOW COOL!

Still Life!

Students used viewfinders to find an interesting composition by cropping out other objects. They then built knowledge of value scale by using charcoal and chalk to achieve different shadows and highlights. This was truly a challenging and messy project!

Clay Character Bowls and Ugly Mugs!

Students were able to choose to either sculpt a clay character bowl or an ugly mug. For the clay character bowls students chose a character and sketched it from three different angles on paper. Then the students created a pinch pot as their base and then added appendages later. Those students that chose ugly mugs also had to do three different sketches however they created two pinch pots to create the tall mug shape. Both projects required the students to use acrylic paint on the finished product. Great job!

Super Cool Student Work

Check out this student's art work! He worked on these drawings outside of class and used the Paint program on his computer! SUPER COOL!!!

SKETCHBOOKS!!!

SKETCHBOOKS ARE DUE TOMORROW (OCTOBER 23RD)!!!!!!

1. There must be EIGHT COMPLETED Sketchbook Fridays.
2. There also must be EIGHT COMPLETED Mystery Mondays.
3. The entire sketchbook will be graded on completion including color, background, and use of space.
4. -10 points for every day it is turned in late
5. Remember: You have known about this since the second week of school!!! NO EXCUSES!

200 points for Sketchbook Fridays
+80 points for Mystery Monday
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280 total points!!! eeeek! that's a lot!

Happy Sketching!

Spirit Week and MOYA Night!

     This week students and teachers participated in Spirit Week! Check out the photos from 'Wacky Wednesday' and 'Decades Day' below!  In addition to Spirit Week we had four 8th grade art students help with face painting for the 6th grade MOYA (Month of the Young Adolescent) night. This was a great opportunity for students to have fun and support the arts. In fact, it was so much fun that Mr. Saylor and Mr. Wheat had to get their faces painted too!

                                                        

Me and Mrs. Cline on Decades Day!

Ms. Wheat's face painting creation.

Caricature Portfolios!

Students learned the process of creating caricatures and practiced their new skill by drawing other people first. They drew Beyonce, Mayer Hawthorne, another peer, Ms. Krieger, and some even drew one of our Principals, Mr. Saylor! Then they practiced drawing themselves as a caricature. Their portfolios consist of a caricature self portrait made with black marker.