A special thanks to Mrs. Kamp in Baltimore, Maryland for the project idea. You can check out her blog at the link below our project in progress gallery to the right ART 8 students are diving deeper into form and space after finishing our overview of the seven elements of art. We talked about the difference between shape and form (shape is a 2D representation and form is a 3D representation). Students then experimented with shape on paper and then turned those shapes into 3D forms of their choice. Once they settled on a 3D form, they made 60 variations. After the completion of their form variations, students will learn about composition and rearrange their forms into a pleasing composition, taking into account positive and negative space. The end result will be abstract paper relief sculptures. Relief sculptures are sculptures that come off their canvas (in our case- colored railroad board). Check back to see our progress to the right! | |
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To assess student knowledge on Roy Lichtenstein and his artwork, I didn't want to give a traditional paper quiz- besides being boring, it is not even a tad creative. So ART 8 students were asked to write a tweet about Roy, as a man and an artist, his artwork, and the social reaction to his work. I took all tweets and put the highlights on our Trending Now in Art bulletin board.
ART 8 is going back to the basics for our next project. We are studying the seven elements of art. Artists use the seven elements (along with the six principles of design) to create their pieces. The seven elements are used to create interest, focus attention and invoke emotion in artwork. ART 8 students are making a foldable organizer to learn about the seven elements. The seven elements of art are: Line, Color, Value, Shape, Form, Space and Texture. Students will use these as guides while creating larger pieces throughout the year. Below you can see our progress. 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. I am glad to see you back again for another year of awesome art at GLMS! Our first two weeks have been full of art projects already! We were busy creating collaborative pieces for our annual GLEF Festival of Tables in October. Our pieces will be up for auction during the Festival's silent auction event. We are excited to provide these pieces for the community to bid on while at the same time, helping to raise money for the GLEF (Grass Lake Educational Foundation) and our classroom. If you are attending the Festival, make sure to check out our pieces and place a bid to own one :) Our pieces are collaborative whole class pieces that have a little part of each student on every piece. Students started by drawing a shape on their group piece then through a series of rotations through all group tables, we added smaller shapes, lines and accent lines. Students then added detail patterns, line and designs throughout their pieces with oil pastel. All pieces will be matted and framed and put up for sale at the Festival of Tables in October. |
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