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.

Winter Cards Getting Ready for Display!

Holiday and Winter Cards

Creating 3D letters

Students are creating letters out paper and choosing words that represent this upcoming holiday season. Students are making the words 3-D. Then they will sketch the words and show where the shadows are. Here are some samples of students creating words!

Shading!

Students have been working with charcoal and exploring which type they like to use: vine, compressed, pencil and other styles! Here are samples of their work.

Native American Cave Drawings

Over thousands of years Native American art history has evolved from cave drawing to ornate jewelry, basketry, pottery and blanket design. Students in the picture are creating cave drawings on brown kraft paper and trying to recreate a cave wall. On the wall they are making symbols and creating meaning from a chart of Native American symbols.

Sunday in the Park with George

One more from the dot unit!

Fantastic! These are students own line drawing in pencil and then filled in with dots to create texture, depth, shape and motion! Beautifully done ninth grade!

More incredible DOTS

This cityscape is phenomenal in it rendering... Look from afar and up close the buildings and their reflections are amazing.

Dot dot dot and connect the DOTS!

We have been studying dots and how their varying size, shape and color can make shadows in a picture and come together to form an incredibly TEXTURED picture. Students used q-tips and water colors to dot images they created AND to give depth to outlines of Seurat's Sunday in the Park, Van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa! See their work and look at it up close! ALL were created with dots!

Leaves: sketchings, rubbings, and using them as brushes

Students never cease to amaze me. Juan created a beautiful fall scene with three colors and a bunch of leaves. If you look closely, you can see that he created this ENTIRE scene below by using the leaves as a paintbrush and stamps. He drew the trunk with the stem of the leaf to get fine lines, he used the leaves as a stamp to create the leaf prints in the tree, and he used a bunch of leaves scrunched up to turn them in a circle to create the sun. AMAZING creativity and AMAZING picture.

Oy. Vey. BALLLONS

This did not go as planned. And well, we all can learn from our mistakes. I am most proud that the kids did amazing work with what they had. By that I mean directions from me, a balloon, glue and tissue paper. The idea was students would end up with beautifully shaped papier-mâché balloons and create bowls or piñatas. That did not happen because we glued the paper to the balloon and when we deflated the balloons the orbs deflated as well. SO, the kids created amazing bowls, masks, piñata's and hot air balloons anyway!!! They changed the whole ending of this project by being creative! Thank you!!!!

Leaf Peeping

An autumnal day and leaves are the way to go. I collected leaves at Forest Hills Cemetery and had students draw them in pencil and do leaf rubbings with colored pencils or crayons. Thank you to Ms. Lydon (art teacher at the Sumner) for the fantastic ideas! Students produced great work! Some even had time to "paint" with leaves as the brushes!

Sugar Skulls

We are working with scissors, metallic paper, tissue paper, metallic pencils, oil pastels, metallic markers ALL ON black construction paper. Students each get a skull and make it into their own unique design. Look closely at the picture and you will be AMAZED AT THE TALENT!

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Day of the Dead is an interesting holiday celebrated in central and southern Mexico during the chilly days of November 1 & 2. Even though this coincides with the Catholic holiday called All Soul's & All Saint’s Day, the indigenous people have combined this with their own ancient beliefs of honoring their deceased loved ones.

They believe that the gates of heaven are opened at midnight on October 31, and the spirits of all deceased children (angelitos) are allowed to reunite with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the spirits of the adults come down to enjoy the festivities that are prepared for them.

TAKEN FROM THE WEB: 

www.MexicanSugarSkull.com

Comic Book!

The book is about to go to press!!! I will attach the link! Until then here are some

shots of student work!

Comic Book beginnings!!

These are students' comics that are sketched out and ready to be colored and then placed in our comic book! Students have done a variety of characters from WOLVES and animals, to kids and adults, to fantasy cartoons like a floating baby head and Spongebob Hoodpants. Other characters include: Wreckless Sally, The Unknown, Cryrevere, Pizza-Man, and many others!

Comics !!!

We are working on comic strips! We are exploring others' comic art and the characters-- Spongebob, Phineas and Ferb, Catdog, Tom and Jerry, Pokemon, Garfield, Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Boondocks, Family Guy, and many many others! Here are some of the drawings the students have come up with!

DECORATING YOUR OWN MUNNY

REPRESENTING MUNNY!

We designed our own Munny characters. Students designed both the front and back and stuffed them with recycled paper and stapled them shut! Creating these 3-D dolls was a fabulous experience and showed students what it was like to create a prototype for a doll to be made. 

See more info here: MUNNYWORLD

http://sites.kidrobot.com/munnyworld/downloads/PaintingMW.pdf

ANOTHER FABULOUS start to the YEAR AT ACC

Students colored sneakers that represented them, who they are and how they identify. Some students chose their favorite colors, some chose flags from their home countries (or their family's country). Lots of students drew their favorite characters, others sketched their favorite art style. Enjoy these photos of their work!