In a Couple of Days it will be March 1st!

In just a short while, we will be starting the beginning of the fourth quarter.  Time flies!

NEWS

We will be preparing for the 2nd Annual Middle School Art Show over the next couple of weeks.  

Invitations will be mailed out to all families with students in middle school visual arts program.

The event is held in the High School Media Center on March 24, 2014.

It will start at 7:00 pm and end at 8:00.

All students will receive an award for participation and all students are required to attend the art show.

Grade Level awards will be given along with Best in Show and Most Creative Trophies. 

Hope to see you there.

WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON?

We have been bombarded with snow here in North Carolina this winter and have not had quite as much class time as a teacher might like, but we have still been busy in the art room.

7th Grade

7th Grade students have been finishing up with various projects.  We finished our chair paintings just today and the boys had an extra class and did some animal paintings in watercolors.

Examples

8th Grade Art

8th Grade students started their painting unit.  This past week and last they worked on a curvy line, design painting.  Students drew curvy lines in pencil on the paper and then painted (in watercolor) the sections/shapes that the lines formed.  After the paint dried they used water base markers to fill the spaces with different designs.  I love how some of these turned out!

 

This coming week 8th grade students will be painting clowns.  

7th Grade Boys will be drawing dragons in pencil and 7th grade girls will be doing a mixed media flower project using torn paper and magazines.

February 5th

8th Grade Art

8th Graders are working on a unit in DRAWING.  This week they completed drawings of flowers in OIL PASTELS.  This is a project that we do every single year and we do that because they always turn out to be such good works of art.

Last week we had a short week due to school being closed for snow.  I did not get to meet with 7th Grade girls.  The 7th grade boys created Mixed Media Valentines.  

On a piece of paper they wrote out a message of love in calligraphy ink.  They cut out the message in a heart shape.  They painted a background for their heart and glued it onto the painted background.

These two were selected from my favorites.  I love doing mixed media with the students.  For some reason, they are so brave and use their imaginations more in this discipline than in some of the others.

Who says Valentines Day has to cost money?  I love these handmade ones!!!