To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color on the traditional color wheel.
To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Students used protractors, rulers, and composes to create geometric patterns. Others used cured stencils to create a more organic feel. Next, students planned how they would paint each section using hues, tints, shades, and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real-world skills. It is one of the most time-consuming projects the Studio Art class undertakes, the final product is always stunning and the bright colors are perfect to welcome spring! |
What is your favorite book or if you can't decide on a favorite what was the last book that you read?
This was the question that was posed to the Studio Art Classes. The class then reflected on the book with the following questions; what is the main idea, who are the characters and where did the book take place? Once the students answered these questions they were introduced to their next project, the Book Doodle! We talked about the difference between a doodle and an artwork, doodles are fun, they can be silly, and the laws of the world do not apply to them. Each student brainstormed ideas for their project based on the question they answered on their book selection. This project allowed for student choice, was interdisciplinary with their ELA class and allowed them to show off their personal drawing style. Check out their clever and fun creations |
Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is known for his artwork depicting tools, hearts, and bath robes. As a class, we discussed what a tool can be and all the different tools we use every day. The students selected a tool that they thought would be interesting to draw and to use as the subject matter of a work of art. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging, repetition, and their imaginations.
Once the drawings were completed as a class we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three-dimensional. We study different techniques and mediums for creating value. Students selected the mediums and techniques they thought would work best with their drawing and then added value to their tools to help bring them to life. Check out their fabulous works of art! |
This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills, they drew objects from different angles, and each student created a composition that showed movement. The selection of objects and placement that each student decides shows off their personality and seems of decision.
We then talked about creating value and how to mix paint. Students needed to carefully plan where to use different techniques to continue the movement and balance that they created with the line drawing. The outcome is a bold and graphic interpolation of a still life. |
The Codomas by Henri Matisse, 1943
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The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse , focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how using paper makes colors appear flat and that all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told a story or memory about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
Oaxaca animals are a traditional craft created by the people of Oaxaca Mexico. The animals are carved from wood traditionally by men and the women and children paint them with colorful and detailed designs. Families often will have painting techniques and designs that appear on many of their carved animals.
The students each selected an animal that they felt represented them and built it out of clay. Once the animals were fired they created their own marks and designs. This lesson allows students to leave the realm of Fine Art and experiment with Folk Art. Folk Art is usually created by self taught artists and originate in a specific area. The works of art are stylized and break away from reality. The students enjoyed the opportunity to create something colorful, fun and unique to them. |
To help celebrate spring the Studio Art classes worked in small groups to create murals for our hallways. This year the class study the work of Natasha Bowdoin a contemporary female artist. The students were challenged to think of ways to visually represent the classes or areas that their mural was located near.
To make the murals large we rolled out large sheets or collaged pieces of paper together. It was impressive to see how creative students could be and how they worked together to create a variety of images. |
Does a work of art need to be one of a kind? Not when you are making a print. In fact printmakers can make hundreds of the same exact image!
The Studio Art class dicussed why artist might want to have a one of a kind piece and why artist may want to make more then one of the same image. They then had a list of linoleum block printers to check out and answer some question on. The students picked the prinmaker they liked the best and used them as inspiration for their project. Check out the steps the students use to create their prints. Some students even experimented with multiple colors and rainbow rolls! |
Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
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The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse , focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how using paper makes colors appear flat and that all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told a story or memory about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
The Codomas by Henri Matisse, 1943
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To start up the new school year the first week of school the Art classes learned about Neurographic Drawings. This activity is a great way to reflect on how you are feeling, and calm anxiety. It allows students to create something that they can relate to and gives them a creative outlet. The end product is not as important as the process of making the work and reflecting. Give it a try, on here are two videos that describe the process and help guide you!
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To gain more experience with clay the Studio Art class learned how to create mugs. The class used the slab method as well as the score and slip technique to create their projects. Once the mug form had been established the students then needed to create an image on the mug that used both the added and reductive process. Check out their creativity and ingenuity.
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To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
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This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills, they drew objects from different angles, and each student created a composition that showed movement.
We then talked about creating value and how to mix paint. Students needed to carefully plan where to put techniques and values to continue the movement and balance that they created with the line drawing. Each student's artwork was unique and even started to show their personalities. |
To start off the year the studio Art classes worked in small groups to create murals for our hallways. This year the class study the work of Pop Artist Kith Haring. The students were challenged to think of ways to visually represent the classes or areas that their mural was located near.
To make the murals lift size we moved into the hallways to make them, rolled out large sheets of paper, and got to work. It was impressive to see how creative students could be and how they worked together to create a variety of images. |
As the year progresses that project becomes more changing! The final large-scale project that the Studio Art class created was the Magazine Collage project. This assignment requires students to work several different ways visual. First, they need to take or find a photo that they would like to use for the work of art. We then brought the photos into a free digital program simpler to Photoshop called Photopea. Here the students learned how to simplify their images to basic colors and shapes. their images were then printed and students used the old school grid drawing technique to enlarge the images and draw them out on their paper. Once this was completed students looked through magazines for colors to create their images. The hard work and dedication played off, the outcomes are beutifle!
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As spring approached the Art class received requests to brighten up the halls and share something beautiful. The Studio Classes took on this challenge! The classes study the large-scale work of Natasha Bowdin, they were broken up into gropes and come up with a plan for what their work of art should include. Each student then worked on individual portios(leaves, flowers or animals). Once the pieces were done the groups came back together to assemble their creations. The Botanical Murals project was a huge success in the classroom as students were creating the work with everyone who was able to appreciate the student creatively and imagination.
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Who does not love the creey and goolish cartoeres or Tim Burton? The class took a look at some of Burton's drawings of characters, we briefly talked about what makes his style unquick. Then the students were challenged with creating their likeness as if they were Tim Burton. This project was one of the most loved assignments of the year.
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Ms. DellaRocco
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To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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Payton Benjamin
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One of the biggest challenges that everyone faces this year was learning outside of the classroom. This became even more of a challenge when you are in an art class and you do not have the supplies that every one in the classroom has. To combat this the Studio Art students each need to create a lesson that anyone could make from home. The students needed to come up with an idea, the instructions their peers would need and then create an example. This assessment showed off many students' passion and creativity in a new way.
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Does a work of art need to be one of a kind? Not when you are making a print. In fact printmakers can make hundreds of the same exact image!
The Studio Art class dicussed why artist might want to have a one of a kind piece and why artist may want to make more then one of the same image. They then had a list of linoleum block printers to check out and answer some question on. The students picked the prinmaker they liked the best and used them as inspiration for their project. Check out the steps the students use to create their prints. Some students even experimented with multiple colors and rainbow rolls! |
This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills, they drew objects from different angles, and each student created a composition that showed movement.
We then talked about creating value and how to mix paint. Students needed to carefully plan where to put techniques and values to continue the movement and balance that they created with the line drawing. Each student's artwork was unique and even started to show their personalities. |
Can you create a drawing using only one line?
The students' challenge was to do just this. They each made three drawings this way. Drawing one was an object, and was set to take 5 minutes, drawing two was a portrait and took 10 minutes or more. The last drawing was what you see from the pace you are sitting(the room you are in)and took 10 minutes. Students came up with all kinds of subject matter and interesting images. |
To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills, they drew objects from different angles, and each student created a composition that showed movement.
We then talked about creating value and how to mix paint. Students needed to carefully plan where to put techniques and values to continue the movement and balance that they created with the line drawing. Each student's artwork was unique and even started to show their personalities. |
The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse , focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how using paper makes colors appear flat and that all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told a story or memory about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
The Codomas by Henri Matisse, 1943
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Does a work of art need to be one of a kind? Not when you are making a print. In fact printmakers can make hundreds of the same exact image!
The Studio Art class dicussed why artist might want to have a one of a kind piece and why artist may want to make more then one of the same image. They then had a list of linoleum block printers to check out and answer some question on. The students picked the prinmaker they liked the best and used them as inspiration for thier project. Check out the steps the students use to create thier prints. Some students even experimented with multiple colors and rainbow rolls! |
Students learned about the Pop Art movement focusing on the artist Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. This project was a mixed media project that allowed students to work and experiment with different art mediums and techniques. They then selected a pop culture image and a color scheme to work with and created their own Pop Art work.
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To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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Five Paintbrushes, Jim Dine
Rylee Byrne
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Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
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This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills, they drew objects from different angles, and each student created a composition that showed movement.
We then talked about creating value and how to mix paint. Students needed to carefully plan where to put techniques and values to continue the movement and balance that they created with the line drawing. Each student's artwork was unique and even started to show their personalities. |
The Codomas by Henri Matisse, 1943
The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse , focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how using paper makes colors appear flat and that all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told a story or memory about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
Rylee Byrne
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Does a work of art need to be one of a kind? Not when you are making a print. In fact printmakers can make hundreds of the same exact image!
The Studio Art class dicussed why artist might want to have a one of a kind piece and why artist may want to make more then one of the same image. They then had a list of linoleum block printers to check out and answer some question on. The students picked the prinmaker they liked the best and used them as inspiration for thier project. Check out the steps the students use to create thier prints. Some students even experimented with multiple colors and rainbow rolls! |
The Studio Art class over the year has learned that the elements of art are main ingredients in making artwork. They are now at the point where they can add some more complicated ingredients: the Principles of Design! Each class was broken into groups to focus their attention on one of the seven principles: Pattern, Unity, Contrast, Emphasis, Movement, Rythmn, and Balance. The small groups each made a presentation and note sheets for their peers and took over teaching their peers. Once all the students shared their new information each student selected what principle they wanted to create a work of art focusing on. There were not limits to size, medium, or subject matter. This was something that stooped some students, but others loved that they had a chance to show off their imagination.
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Students were introduced to Henry Moore; an artist who created large scale abstracted figures. The students worked as a class to figure out where the human figure was in each of the images. To help demonstrate their ideas students modeled the sculptures pose for the class.
When it came time for each of the students to make thier own figure, each student drew three to four gesture drawings from their peers modeling pose. This activity students found to be fun, silly and beneficial to understanding how to depict a figure in a quick sketch. Next the students picked their best drawing and created a clay figure based on their drawings. |
To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
Five Paintbrushes, Jim Dine
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The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse , focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how using paper makes colors appear flat and that all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told a story or memory about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
The Codomas by Henri Matisse, 1943
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Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
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Five Paintbrushes, Jim Dine
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The Parakeet and the Mermaid. 1952
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The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how when using paper, colors are flat and all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told somehting about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
To better understand color theory and incorporate math, students made kaleidoscope color wheels. Students needed to draw and divide circles into twelve sections, one section for each color. To create unique works of art, each student created a design that would repeat in each of the twelve sections. Next, students planned how they would paint each sections using hues, tints, shades and neutrals. Once all the planning was complete, students began mixing paint and filling in their color wheels. This project required dedication and careful consideration, teaching students real world skills.
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Olivia Palmer
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This multi-faceted lesson looks great and was not easy! Students were initially challenged by drawing objects from observation, a skill that most individuals do not practice on a daily basis. Once the students had improved their drawing skills and had four to six well drawn objects, each student created a composition that showed movement.
We then talked about all the ways you can create value and what mediums would work best for the different value techniques. Student all need to practice using shading with pencil, hatching, crosshatching and stippling with pen or makers and also mixing paint to make flat values. Student needed to carefully plan where to put different techniques and values to continue the movement they created with the line drawing. All of the students work were unique and even started to show student’s personalities. |
The student's first project of the year needs to be something fun, creative, and interesting. The class studied the artwork of Henri Matisse focusing on his cut paper artwork. We talked about how when using paper, colors are flat and all parts of the images are made out of shapes. The students were challenged to use only cut paper shapes to make a work of art that told somehting about themselves to the viewer.
Students took the time to come up with three different ideas, and selected one that they felt would be the most successful and began cutting and pasting. All students made unique cut paper projects. |
Students studied the artwork of Jim Dine, a Pop artist who is know for his artwork depicting tools, hearts and bath robes. Each student selected a tool as the subject matter of their drawing. Using inspiration from Dine, they created a composition with overlap, cropping, enlarging and repetition. As a class, we talked about how value makes an object look more realistic and three dimensional. The students then added value to their tools to help bring them to life.
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Jim Dine
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