Another Post

We have so much to share since our last blog post.

First of all, I will tell you what we are currently working on so that you can look forward to the art work that is ahead.

7th Grade Art is learning about the Illuminated Manuscript of the Middle Ages.  The project that they will be working on before break and after break is an illuminated cross.  We will be using metallic gold paint to do the illumination.

8th Grade is currently learning about Printmaking and completed string prints last week.  Next week, they will be creating a styro-print using styrofoam as the block.

7th Grade

Bean Mosaics

This was such a fun project!!!

8th Grade 

STRING PRINTS

 

Directions for string prints.  Sketch a face from your imagination in pencil on cardboard.  Put glue over lines that were sketched and then add string.  Let dry and then put printing ink or glue on the surface of the template and use like a big stamp.  Make sure to press down evenly on your template.

SEE YOU SOON!!!

 

 

November in Art Class

November has been a really quick month so far!

Here is what we are up to....

7th Grade Boys and Girls have been learning about Early Christian Art and have been working on Bean Mosaics in class.  Before that, we worked on some mixed media paintings titled Mountain Streams and Falling Leaves.

The Bean Mosaics will be complete this Thursday and I will try my best to post again by Friday so that you can see the outcome.

Here are the 7th Grade Boys working on the Bean Mosaics in class today.  They finished the project today, but we will wait on the girls so that you can see them all at one time.

MOUNTAIN STREAMS AND FALLING LEAVES

Oil Pastels and Tempera Paint

Mixed Media Resist

7th Grade

8th Grade Art 

8th Graders just completed their unit on DESIGN.  The final project that we worked on in class was a quilt design.  The students painted pieces of paper and I provided printed pieces of fabric.  Of course our quilts were made out of paper and glue, but the paper pieces we used were printed fabric.  Students had to choose colors and patterns and select a paint color to accent the printed fabric.  I think they turned out so nice and bright and colorful!

8th Grade Art began a new unit last week.  The students will begin Printmaking and will work on Printmaking projects for the next 6 weeks.  Printmaking is full of surprises and is hard to manipulate.  It is sometimes hard for the students who have a perfectionist side to "let go" while learning about printmaking.  They will learn that the art of printmaking will never come out exactly the way they intended.  They will also discover that accidents can be good.

Printmaking projects will be graded on completion, effort, and followed directions due to the inability to control the outcome of the print.  Hopefully, this will encourage them to try their best, but not be too upset if it does not turn out exactly how they expected it to turn out.

 

LEAF PRINTS

 

We painted a background, then went outside and collected leaves to be printed.  Here are the results.

Monday's class worked on STENCIL PRINTS.  Here is a perfect example of the ups and downs of PRINTMAKING.  Only these 4 students were able to successfully print the stencil that they cut out.  The other students had trouble with the stencil ripping while they were cutting it out.  This project was not graded, but we wanted to share prints below.

 

That is all for now.  I hope to be able to post some bean mosaics and some snowflake prints by Friday.