The 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!! Click on an image to see a full picture.
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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. 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. final self portraitsself portrait practice sketchesStudents 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. partner portraitsplaying roll-a-picasso!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!!
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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