ART 8 students are turning to perhaps their favorite subject- food- as inspiration for our final large project of the year! Students were introduced to the large scale object and food sculpture of American sculptor Claes Oldenburg using the Prezi below. The Prezi is limited to allow for class discussion to go wherever it may. Students are allowed to create any scale sculpture they wish as long as they follow the "not-so-perfect" or "gross" representation of their food choice a la Oldenburg. Tacos, suckers, watermelon, Starbucks, cookies, Reese's cups, pretzels, cakes, cupcakes , corn on the cob and pie are only a few of the choices that ART 8 is creating! Scales range from slightly larger than real life to a sucker with a 2 foot diameter and a 6 foot long stick. Before going crazy with toilet paper, the students had to create cardboard supports and forms. We all now feel like experts on cardboard construction :)
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ART 8 students spent a few days creating some pieces of art using masking tape to block off what would become the negative, empty space. Each group was allowed to create whatever they wanted and paint however they wanted for their group piece. Upon completion, students were given a letter, roll of tape and varying pieces of paper. Students had to tape off the letter they were given and then paint it abstractly in whatever style they liked. These letters will then be placed together to form art words, such as, create and inspire. These colorful pieces will brighten up and let the creativity flow in our tiny hallway :)
Our first day of forced perspective was spent reviewing one and two point perspective and introducing the concept of forced perspective. Then it was time to unleash the kiddos to brainstorm, plan and get inspired. There were so many cool images to view that even though their galleries only require 6 final, edited images, the photo shoot lists were into the 20s! The next few days were spent indoors and out shooting images. There were some weird looks from passersby and fellow students as we pretended to "fall" from a wall and cracks in the sidewalk and pretended to be thrown and squished by large rocks, objects and feet...the things you do for great art :) The following day was spent choosing final images to turn in. editing and putting effects like Color Splurge into the images. Check back next week to see all images in our ART 8 Gallery
Up next for ART 8 is a school favorite-altered books! Artists were shown different examples of altered book art and then given complete freedom to choose a style, piece and project all their own. The only requirements were to do a quality job and make the viewer see the book as first a piece of art, then second, as a traditional book. Surprisingly, in this group, there is a minimal number of artists that chose to do an abstract texture piece. Each student has a different theme or a different take on similar themes.
Our first project of the quarter is this year's 8th grade farewell project. This year each 8th grader will create a low relief piece of everyday materials and assemble them into a grade level collage. Materials include common cardboard, basic yarn, traditional aluminum foil and Sharpies. It is amazing what gorgeous things you can create with simple materials. Check out our process below to see our pieces. the processDay 1 was all about sketches- these pieces will remain up in our building after this group leaves so students had to decide what part of themselves they want to leave behind. Some did designs, their initials or name, favorite quote or saying or even favorite products. Each sketch had to be colored in a chosen color scheme ranging from primary, analogous, monochromatic. It was student's choice. Day 2 brought yarn drawing. First sketches were transferred over to the cardboard pieces. Students then created a yarn and water mixture, dipped their yarn into it and drew their favorite sketch from the previous day. Yarn drawing is not as easy as some thought it would be :) Pieces were then left to dry overnight and adhere to the cardboard. Days 3 and 4 were covering our pieces with foil and coloring. This proved difficult for some due to the fragile nature of aluminum foil. Once the pieces were covered and edges were tucked behind, Sharpies came out to add a bit of color to our pieces. Adding Sharpie over foil gives the marker a shiny, more vibrant color and picks up the texture of the foil. The pieces turned out great and once all 8th graders complete their pieces they will be hung together in a giant collage above our display cases. Check out the final pieces individually and together in the ART 8 Gallery on Friday, April 11!
This week marked the return of above zero temperatures and our artists from quarter 2. All 4th quarter pieces and projects will be posted above this announcement. We hope you love what we are working on!
Today started perhaps, the favorite project of ART 8 students- deconstructed books/book art pieces. What 8th grader hasn't fantasized about destroying a book in school at some point. With this project, they can-in the name of art. Students have no rules, except to take an old recycled book and breathe new life into it through art. Some students are going deconstructivist and creating an abstract piece that looks nothing like a book, others are creating new worlds made of paper and book spines and still others plan to create textural and visual pieces with pages. Keep checking back to see our progress over the next couple weeks. day one: prepping and planningAfter choosing their books and doing some iPad research on all the different book art out there, ART 8 students spent the day planning and prepping their books. Some students cut off covers, cut out pages, painted and some just played around on our "practice books" to see what methods they wanted to use. continuing our creationsThis project challenged my ART 8 students to review the elements of art and create a unique abstract piece out of a piece of paper. Each student was given the same size papers (2 different thicknesses and sizes each) and shown the project introduction below. That's it! They had a million questions and were told to figure it out, look beyond the paper as a piece of paper and to review their elements of art notes from the last quarter we met. The results are unique, always turn out great and the problem solving process student go through is invaluable as a life lesson. day one: project intro and frustrationAfter showing the simple Powerpoint project intro above and a few student examples from last quarter, students set out to create their pieces and win 1 of 3 king-sized candy bars. I am not going to lie- there was MAJOR FRUSTRATION! After not being able to figure it all out within 5 minutes and me not giving any answers, there was complaining, refusal to do it and whining. BUT....I always have confidence in my kids and they decided to give it another go. Each attempt was better than the last. The end of the first hour gave us the beginnings of some great pieces and some sense of pride and accomplishment on the student's end. days two through four: |
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Day two: partner portraits!
Students created portraits of classmates, and even me using Picasso's signature style. We had a ton of fun making our "best" portraits of our friends. Monday we will vote for our top 3. As you can see we had a ton of fun with this!
day three: picking our top 3 & selfie sketches!
and the winners are...
1st: Jolee
2nd: Michael
3rd: Sydeny and Rylie
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2nd: Michael
3rd: Sydeny and Rylie
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day four through .....: final selfie sketches and paint!
After playing with perspective on paper and becoming almost experts at cityscapes, country roads and school hallways, ART 8 students are going to showcase their knowledge of perspective in an unusual medium-duct tape. Our school hallways will soon be filled with giant duct tape 1-point and 2-point small group perspective pieces. Students are still responsible for creating correct perspective and for making sure all perspective rules are followed but they get to go big, go bright and liven up the school with a super fun medium. Check out our progress below!
day one: group planning
DAY TWO: claiming our spaces and starting our pieces
ART 8 staked our claims in the hallways this morning to start our giant duck tape perspectives. Groups each chose a color they wanted and got started. Each group is given a couple yardsticks, one roll of duck tape and some scissors. This is the summative assessment of our perspective unit so I offer no help and get to enjoy watching the pieces add a bit of depth to our 2-dimensional hallways.
days three, four, five: constructing our pieces
ART 8 students are moving onto perspective for the next couple weeks. This is either a hit or a big miss with students :) Some love the order, precision and neatness, other despise the exact nature of this technique. Either way, it is an important concept to learn about and requires careful thinking and higher thinking skills. Most students don't realize they interact with perspective daily. This series of exercises, mini projects and final group project will take the next couple weeks and will introduce students to one-point and two-point perspective. To introduce the concept, students jumped right in and after looking at real-life examples, started a cityscape. They did this for two days- one for each perspective. We viewed simple YouTube videos (that you can view below) to get us started.
ART 8 students were challenged to put their knowledge of the seven elements of art to the test in this paper project. For the early days of this week, students took notes on, had discussions about and watched videos on the elements of art. The 7 elements of art are line, shape, color, form, value, space and texture. The elements are the building blocks for all art. Artists use them to create pieces and each has a specific purpose. You can find resources on the elements of art in the Resources tab to the left beginning Monday, Nov. 25.
For this challenge students were given the same piece of all purpose art paper and given guidelines to create an attractive, abstract sculpture that used 4 of the 7 elements effectively. You can see the rubric below. Monday, Nov. 25, students will receive a thicker piece of watercolor paper to construct a second sculpture. Students will then chose the sculpture they would like to turn in for a grade and to enter into our challenge voting. Students will vote on their favorites on Tuesday before we go to Thanksgiving break and our winners will receive a prize!
For this challenge students were given the same piece of all purpose art paper and given guidelines to create an attractive, abstract sculpture that used 4 of the 7 elements effectively. You can see the rubric below. Monday, Nov. 25, students will receive a thicker piece of watercolor paper to construct a second sculpture. Students will then chose the sculpture they would like to turn in for a grade and to enter into our challenge voting. Students will vote on their favorites on Tuesday before we go to Thanksgiving break and our winners will receive a prize!
day one and two: 80 lb. all purpose paper
days three & four: textured watercolor paper
Lichtenstein and Pop Art go hand in hand. With his comic book benday dot style and his sarcastic soap opera-esque characters and plots, he was and still is considered a leading artist of the Pop Art movement. Our ART 8 students got to recreate Lichtenstein's comic book style in our first graded project: Lichtenstein Self Portraits. For this project, each student was photographed, did a graphite transfer of their image and then filled it with bold black line, benday dots and topped it off with a speech or thought bubble.
famous works of roy lichtenstein
lichtenstein self portrait process
days one and two: graphite transfers, lines and adding detail
days two and three: tracing in sharpie, cleaning it up, adding benday dots
days four and five: wrapping it up
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