Drawing People

8th Grade Art

The 8th Grade students completed their drawings of people in historical attire this week.  I was really proud of their effort.  Everyone is always fearful when it comes to drawing people.  As I walked the room, I heard over and over again, "I can't draw people".  We talked about drawing what we see and not worrying about those lines as "lips" or "noses".  Just thinking of them as lines.  It helped.  I am very happy with the outcome and think they created some interesting drawings.  

The students worked from engravings (copyright free) from clipartetc.

Here are some samples of their work!

Coming soon.....

8th Grade-Drawing Flowers in Oil Pastels

7th Grade-Roses in Tempera Paint

Hopefully, the Rose paintings will be complete in time for Valentine's Day.  

Twenty Thirteen

8th Grade Art

8th Grade students are studying drawing.  This week we learned about different drawing techniques, shadow casting, shading techniques and how to create contrast in our drawings.

The first drawing project is done in pencil and the subject was birds.

EXAMPLES

7th Grade

7th Grade students created glue resist paintings.  They drew the butterflies in pencil then went over all their lines with Elmer's school glue.  We let them dry for one week, then we applied paint and then rinsed the paintings in the sink.  

My perfectionists were all in a panic over this one!

I love the way they turned out.

COMING SOON.....

7th Grade-Magazine Mosaics

8th Grade-Drawings of People in Fashions Throughout History

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We have been busy in art class......

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7th Grade Art 

The students did complete their Early Christian Icon paintings.  The paintings are hanging up in the middle school hallway.  We will post pictures when they come back over to the high school.

8th Grade Art

8th Grade students have started the very fun unit of PRINTMAKING.  Fun, but very messy!!!

So far, we have done string prints and this week we did Styro-prints using Styrofoam plates for our templates.

Here are some photos of them working in class and some photos of their templates and the finished prints too.

This is what the template for the string print looks like.  We use cardboard as the block, then we sketch out a subject of our choice, then we glue string on top, and finally add paint and print the block.

Below are examples of the string prints.  We get some extra texture from the cardboard, but I think it adds to the prints.

Here are the students working in class.  This was a fun class to watch as they worked on these prints.  Like I said, it is MESSY!!!

The students cut a square from a Styrofoam plate, then they drew a design with a pen making sure to press hard enough to leave an impression in the Styrofoam.  Then they inked the block with paint and printed the block.  We rotated the block so that it would create a symmetrical, radiating design.

Here are some of the Styrofoam blocks.  I like they way they look too.  Sometimes, I like them more than the prints.

PRINTS