ART 8 is going back to traditional materials for our next creation! We will be playing Picasso with our Cubist Self Portraits. Pablo Picasso is known to many as the most famous of all Cubists. Picasso was greatly known and recognized for his 2-dimensional, geometric representations of people. Cubists took the "rules" of art in the early 1900s and threw them out the window. Their lack of volume, colorful palettes and multiple vantage points created visually stunning pieces. Cubists focused on the geometric shapes of a person, rather than portraying them realistically. Students in ART 8 will learn about the main characteristics of Cubism, play a Roll-A-Picasso game to get them into the Cubist mind frame and then move onto drawing portraits of their partners and then, finally, of themselves. Students had to create 2 different self portrait practice sketches and analyze them for the best features of each before getting the final paper to lightly sketch their final portrait onto.
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After practicing our one and two point perspective for a couple days, ART 8 students are experimenting with forced perspective. Forced Perspective is an optical illusion technique mostly used with photography. To create an optical illusion, photographers and subjects vary the distances from the camera of objects and people. ART 8 students are using our IPads from the JCF for this first digital project. Today was an outdoor shooting day and the groups of 3-4 got to play around with many ideas and props. The kids had a ton of fun and were really excited to utilize our new technology! The final group galleries of 6 images will be posted in our ART 8 Gallery next week upon completion of the project. Check out the Resources page of our website for online examples of forced perspective photos. art 8 at workBelow you will see ART 8 students at work on the IPads editing their forced perspective photos and outside doing their photo shoots.
Our next project in ART 8 has us dabbling with perspective. On Thursday of this week, students were introduced to 1-point, 2-point and forced perspective. We then had some practice with 1-point perspective with the help of Mr. Ben Saber and his super simple, yet informative YouTube video. You can see his video by clicking the button below. Next week we will try a 2-point perspective drawing, courtesy of Mr. Saber again. Choose a perspective we like, create our own drawings, then use our new IPads from the JCF to photograph forced perspective compositions. A perk of being in 8th grade ART is participating in our 8th Graders as Art Teachers Program. ART 8 was busy today prepping for our first visit of the year to our Littles (Mrs. Taylor's Kindergarten class)!!! For our first visit, ART 8 is researching leaves and why leaves change color in the fall. Each ART 8 student chose a different leaf to find, draw and tell a few facts about. On Friday, we will travel down to the elementary to meet our Littles, tell about our leaves and why leaves change color and then sponge paint our drawings!!
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