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.

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.