Speaking with Hands

Students continued their exploration of hands by viewing Henry Buhl's exhibition, 'Speaking with Hands'. This photograph collection consists of different hands of artists, politicians, dancers, celebrities etc. The purpose of the exhibition is to show that our hands communicate in different ways. Students worked in groups and took photographs of their hands with the purpose of communicating

a message to the viewer.

Hand Drawing

Students observed different parts of the hands including: folds in the palm, knuckles, finger nails etc. They brought in an object that represents them in some way and then they had to find an interesting way to hold their hand with the object to encourage an interesting composition. After that students then learned about shadows and highlights of the hand and added those values to make their hands look more realistic. Students had four choices for their finals: white paper and pencil, white paper and pen (using stippling or cross hatching), gray paper and chalk/charcoal, or black paper with white colored pencil.

Graffiti Tags

Students explored examples of early to modern graffiti from all around the world. They had to design their own graffiti lettering and write their first and last name in this unique style. Students then used watercolor to finish their tag. Great work overall!!!

Stop Motion Animation

Group Name: Group.

Group Name: 3 Cool Cats

Group Name: The 3 Girls

Group Name: The Anti Bullies

Group Name: Assassin Productions

Group Name: Awkward Lyfe *1st Period Best Video!!!*

Group Name: Bacon and the Boyz

Group Name: The BKs

Group Name: Bob the Builder

Group Name: Chicken Party People

Group Name: Wonderwaffles

Group Name: DIF

Group Name: DMK

Group Name: Double Stuffed Oreos

Group Name: Dragon Masters *Overall Best Video Winner!!!*

Group Name: Blue Group *2nd Period Best Video Winner!!*

Group Name: FUSION

Group Name: Hamburgers

Group Name: Hello Kitty

Group Name: Best in Da Burg *5th Period Best Video Winner!!!*

Group Name: Seanese and Isaiah

Group Name: Jay Emm Gee

Group Name: KJK 

Group Name: Krieger Squad

Group Name: The Mario Sisters

Group Name: The Movie Makers

Group Name: KAK *4th Period Best Video Winner!!*

Group Name: Pink Dolphins

Group Name: The Powerful Puppies

Group Name: SAM

Group Name: Santa's Helpers

Group Name: Skittles

Group Name: Matthew and Iverson

Group Name: The Dream Team *6th Period Best Video Winner!!*

Group Name: Take Flight

Group Name:Team Without a Cool Name

Group Name: The Beastly, Awesome, Cool Name Group

Group Name: The Group...

Group Name: The Purple Mini Dinos

Group Name: Three Amigas

Group Name: Tim with Three M's

Group Name: The Vibe

Group Name: White Boyz

Group Name: Wicked Witch

Group Name: Wittle Fishies

Group Name: XJM

Group Name: Zombified

Crazy "Cray" Portraits

Students took pictures of themselves using Photobooth on an iPad. They had to distort their face using one of the filters in the program. After printing out their image on a grid students then had to draw another grid on a piece of drawing paper. They then learned about the grid method and were able to copy their photo exactly how it appears. Students learned about shading with pencil to show the shadows and highlights in hopes to make their portraits look more realistic.

Quest for Design

Students chose and circled an interesting design from a magazine. They enlarged the design and re-drew it much larger and paid attention to every detail and the colors in an attempt to make their drawing look identical to the magazine. Students discovered that by blending, mixing and shading colored pencils they can achieve new colors and affects.