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!
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!
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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 lichtensteinlichtenstein self portrait processdays one and two: graphite transfers, lines and adding detaildays two and three: tracing in sharpie, cleaning it up, adding benday dotsdays four and five: wrapping it upThe second part of the week brought Thanksgiving to Grass Lake. It is tradition that the kindergarten paints giant turkeys and as part of our 8th graders as art teachers program at GLMS, our ART 8 students went down to lend a hand. Each ART 8 student is paired up with a K little to work on projects throughout their 18 weeks in art. Our first visit was to help our littles paint their giant turkeys! You can see below how it went. The art project is just the ice breaker to creating year long relationships with these kids. We want to thank Mrs. Taylor for letting us be a part of her classroom- and for giving us a chance to play at recess too!! day one: turkey bodies and indoor recessday two: turkey trimmings!day three: the final turkeys!!! cutting out, hanging up and more recess!Click on an image to see a full picture.
ART 8 students are starting their year by doing a collaborative project that revisits a favorite technique from last year-Zentangles! Zentangle is an art movement that refers to unplanned, repetitive doodling within a space divided by line. To get our feet wet for our final year together, ART 8 students created large-scale Zentangles in table groups of their choice. Students collaboratively drew their organic shape for a doodle space, added 2 dividing lines per person and together decided on the best composition of doodles for their piece. Student completed the Zentangles on all purpose 80 lb. paper in black Sharpie. You can see our pieces in progress below! You can find Zentangle resources in our Resources tab on the left and our final pieces in the ART 8 Gallery! pieces in progressWith the changing of the quarters coming on Monday, Nov. 4, my ART 8 students took down their Lichtenstein self portraits and hung up their Picasso-inspired self portraits. Showcasing student artwork not only gives our artists an audience to create for, but also gives our building a bit of personality and color.
If your student is leaving art, we will see you again mid-January, but you can still view our quarter's happenings below this post. If your student is new to art this quarter, all their classwork will be above this post starting next week. |
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