More Black History Month WALL

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

These are incredible drawings, sketches and varied typography done by students of famous African-Americans for our Black History Month MURAL!

MURAL unbelievable

MLK Portraits by students

More creative portraits of MLK.

MLK Working with FONTS

We worked in fonts- and words kids chose to frame MLK's portrait.

MLK art

Kids used a variety of fonts to create darks and lights against a black-and-white photo portrait of MLK. The results are incredible. 

MLK mural

Well, I took the plunge. I was nervous about it but I knew these kids could handle it! I have done many variations on this project but never a FULL MURAL on 36 pieces of 8.5 x 11 sized pieces of paper. The result is TREMENDOUS.

FIRST SEMESTER WORK!

CLICK ON THIS LINK:
https://flipagram.com/f/hT7ad84eGT

ANIMATION: Drink Coke!

A fabulous animation

HAVE A COKE and a SMILE!

https://flipagram.com/f/e5dqoyUOT9

ANIMATION: Cupcake Feast!

Here is another fabulous attempt at CLAYMATION!

https://flipagram.com/f/gknYnMi1F9

ANIMATION: Smell the Roses

Check out this animated short! Remember always take time to smell the roses!

https://flipagram.com/f/hT18GMM8qp

ANIMATION: Snail meets Snowman

SEE the animated short: 

Snail meets Snowman 

https://flipagram.com/f/hT02qHOIrQ

LESSON 9: CLAYMATION

Students are working on animation shorts. Their work is impressive and incredibly detailed. It is laborious and can be overwhelming, BUT the end result is worth it! Check out these links to their FLIPAGRAMS!

https://flipagram.com/f/hT02qHOIrQ

Cards going to SAFYRE

LESSON 8: HOLIDAY CARDS

Students created art for good this holiday season. They made holiday cards for this young burn victim and we sent them off to her in upstate New York.

Monsters

These kids NAILED IT! Check out the phenomenal sketches and cut out monsters! 💥

Lesson 7: MONSTER MASH!

Students created monsters and are working on making the monsters into CUT OUT art with card stock/PAPER. 

WHAT are you THANKFUL 4?

Photos of the MASKING TAPE ART

Students took masking tape and created their own designs using a variety of colors! These designs are FABULOUS!

LESSON 6: Masking Tape Art

WATERCOLORS AND SEURAT

Students learned about pointillism and emulated the style using q-tips and WATERCOLORS for their masterpieces. Students had a choice between three outlined pictures of:

Seurat's Sunday in the Park

Seurat's Bathers

Van Gough's Sunflowers

LESSON 5: WATERCOLORS

Students are working with WATERCOLORS. The first part of the lesson is experimenting with wax (crayons) and Watercolors. Students also used different common items as brushes to see the different strokes they created. These items included: paper towels, q-tips, fingerprints, and anything they could think of to change their brushstroke!

Pixels Squared

Students are creating incredible pixelated drawings. Apples, cherries, leaves and hearts are appearing in squares!

LESSON 4: Pixels

Students are learning about PIXELS, DPI (dots per inch) and dots! we are learning about what makes up a picture on the computer and how we can create a pixelated look.

FROM THE WEB:

The images on a computer screen are composed of tiny dots called pixels (short for picture element). The computer controls each pixel individually. Most monitors have hundreds of thousands, or often millions, of pixels that are lit or dimmed to create an image.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS masks

Students were given black construction paper cut into a skull shape. They were allowed to use tissue paper, solid sticker paper, felt and white charcoal pencils to design their personal skulls. Students took their masks to a whole new level!

Links:

DAY OF THE DEAD reading:

http://www.art-is-fun.com/day-of-the-dead-facts/

http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html

DAY OF THE DEAD CALAVERAS

In starting our unit on Dia de los Muertos, these are that CALAVERAS we used to color with traditional colors.

LESSON 3: SELFIE QUEEN--FRIDA

With each unit there is a famous/well known artist highlighted. For the Day of the Dead art lessons Frida fits perfectly. 

And SHE is the QUEEN of the SELFIE!

FRIDA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida

MOVIE LINK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUzQYqba4Y

COMICS: wall display

GETTING CLOSE TO PUBLISHING

INCREDIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS!

Incredible work by Isaiah. 

LESSON 2: COMICS

ALL COMICS ALL THE TIME

New unit: COMICS! Each student is creating a comic strip to contribute to a book. The book will be all student comics! Pictures are coming, but I wanted to post fantastic websites and computer programs that make this project even more fabulous!

FOR templates and story boards click here:
DavisWorld

FOR creating on the computer click here:
ReadWriteThink and ReadWriteThinkLesson

FOR great practice templates click here:
SampleStrip

ALSO LOVE Comic Life by Plasq FOR Apple! It used to be free because it came with Apple computers, but now you have to buy it. AND IT IS WORTH IT!!!!!

Display of SNEAKERS

Taken with the Olloclip wide angle lens, I was able to get a shot of ALL the sneakers the ninth graders designed! Fabulous work!

SNEAKERS: INCREDIBLE DESIGNS

Here is a photo of an amazing design of the sneakers Isaiah did. The attention to detail is phenomenal. He actually took these home to work on them and perfect the pattern! I'd say he nailed it!

LESSON ONE: SNEAKERS

Converse sneakers! Decorate sneakers so that they represent you! Choose colors and patterns you like and make them unique JUST LIKE YOU!

LESSON 7: TESSELLATIONS

Artist: MC Escher.

Optical illusions and TESSELLATIONS.

Lesson 6: Monster Mash

Creating Monsters out of card stock. Sketch, cut out, glue and frame!

Lesson 5: Day of the dead tissue paper masks

Day of the Dead

LESSON 4: Leaf Peeping

Leaves, pens, and tissue paper CREATE.

Lesson 3: Duct Tape

Duct tape is always fun to work with. It can get you into a sticky situation, but generally using duct tape to make wallets, bags, purses, change pouches and more is great fun! Here is some student work:

An incredible resource to make your own is: www.richelafabianmorgan.com

Lesson 2: Masking Tape Canvases

Lesson Plans with Tape and Canvas

Students colored masking tape and made patterns with the tape on the canvas. See the lesson plan below in the link:

http://cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/masking-tape-masterpieces/masking-tape-masterpieces-making-tape-masterpieces.pdf

This is some of the student work hanging:

IT IS SEPTEMBER

Well we are back and decorating sneakers! Here is our first art activity of the year and the kids never disappoint with their creativity! Believe it or not CONVERSE allows you to create your own design and order it (for a fee of course) HERE: 

http://www.converse.com/landing-design-your-own#ui-tabs-2

More MLK ART

MLK

Incredible drawings of an incredible man.

Printing Stamping Designing

Students learned to create patterns by carving their designs into Styrofoam trays with pencils. Then they inked up the tray (craved design) with acrylic paint and printed it onto paper by stamping it! The designs they came up with were incredible and creative. See the ones below.