Finished totem poles.
April 2019- Students working on totem poles with clay making objects that relate to themselves in some way.
March 2019- Self Identity Paper Mache projects.
Spring 2019 started off, by students researching about shoes and shoe history in preparation of making their own pair of shoes. They also researched an overview of Western art history to choose a favorite art style or art period and decorate their shoes in two of its characteristics. Below there are Op Art decorated shoes, to Surrealistic, Post-Impressionistic, and Impressionistic.
Students' finished 3D Collages. Many of the collages were made to give as presents.
The art final will be an in class project. We will be starting it December 5th through December to the actual final day of each class. The project will be a 3D collage on canvas board with a theme that is important to the student.
For this project, students have a homework assignment: written theme idea and why, to bring a bag of objects from home and a 2 printed images that support their theme. These are due on Wednesday, 12/5, for 50 points.
If someone needs to be absent during this time period, please make it up after school. Working on the art final project in class each day will be part of the final grade.
Theme idea for project to the left - Faith.
For this project, students have a homework assignment: written theme idea and why, to bring a bag of objects from home and a 2 printed images that support their theme. These are due on Wednesday, 12/5, for 50 points.
If someone needs to be absent during this time period, please make it up after school. Working on the art final project in class each day will be part of the final grade.
Theme idea for project to the left - Faith.
Art Nouveau to Art Deco....
End of November to beginning of December- Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Art Nouveau's characteristics- "whiplash curve", floral, and nature themed. Art Deco's characteristics- streamlined and geometric. Students chose an Art Nouveau image from the 1890's to 1910, traced or drew it. Then they drew it again, but this copy, they changed it to Art Deco by using a ruler to make the image more angular and geometric.
Throughout November, students worked on Cubist soft sculptures. They learned about Cubist artists- Picasso and Braque, cubist characteristics, and soft sculpture artist, Oldenburg. This project was multi-stepped- drawing, print making, and sewing.
Independent Project
Students beginning their Independent Projects - Choice of media, subject matter, needed to be people, animal, plant, or man made object. A large object in foreground, slightly smaller object in middle ground, and small object in background to encourage students to create an art work that has more than one object and to create a sense of space.
In preparation for their Independent projects- students experimented with oil and chaulk pastels.
To experiment with blending colors with acrylic paint, students painted silhouettes, on mostly colorful backgrounds.
Art students looked into the Harlem Renaissance movement and the artist, Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence is known for painting a series 60 art works about the Great Migration. Students were to paint a moment in their life using stylized figures and flat colors.
Surrealistic Collage- Using juxtaposition (placing unrelated objects side by side) to create a theme by having a foreground, middle ground, and background. Students did an overview of the Surrealistic movement and the artist, Rene Magritte.
Welcome to ART! These questions will be guiding our fall semester:
1) Why do artists create art?
2) What are they trying to communicate?
3) What does the viewer see?
4) What influences artists?
Biographical/Concrete poems will be a way to introduce ourselves.
Then onto Surrealism (particularly, Rene Magritte), Harlem Renaissance (particularly, Jacob Lawrence), Cubism (particularly, Picasso), Art Nouveau/Art Deco.
1) Why do artists create art?
2) What are they trying to communicate?
3) What does the viewer see?
4) What influences artists?
Biographical/Concrete poems will be a way to introduce ourselves.
Then onto Surrealism (particularly, Rene Magritte), Harlem Renaissance (particularly, Jacob Lawrence), Cubism (particularly, Picasso), Art Nouveau/Art Deco.