April Art (no fooling)

With the ELA State Tests this week, the schedule will be wacky...but who cares...let's all do our part to make the best of these weird days.

GET PLENTY OF REST EACH NIGHT AND EAT BREAKFAST EVERY DAY.  That's excellent advice, by the way.
Here's what's been going on in art class (and what's to come):

8th Grade Grotesque Mask-makers

The Focus!!!!

Morehouse scholars have been working really hard and diligently to create the MOST grotesque
masks.  Students have now GESSOed (primed) their masks and are adding their color patterns with acrylic paint.  Students have learned about proper acrylic cleanup to save our brushes!
If you look at the masks and they make you sick, then Morehouse scholars have done their job.  Stay tuned to the blog to see the progress and find out when the masks will be displayed on the CPCS walls.

Questions about any of this?  Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.

Backup plans are good!

5th Grade LIFE PLANNERS!

Kadedrah's dreams

My dream is to...
Xavier artists explored their future plans while working on their self-portraits for the most recent project.

Students filled their page with their self-portrait while looking in the mirror.  They focused on just the inner and outer edges (CONTOUR LINES) rather than shadows.  Prior to this, students have been studying the color wheel and all of its intricacies...not only the primary and secondary colors, but the tertiary (the combination of a primary and secondary color) and warm and cool colors.  They are incorporating ALL of these into their self-portraits.  These are bound to look great and I'm so excited to see how the artwork progresses.

Students who are working on alternate projects need to continue with the expectations and directions for each project.  Focus!!! You can do it!

Questions about any of this?  Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.

7th Grader's Learn about VALUE in Art 
Value is one of the ELEMENTS OF ART (a.k.a. one of the building blocks of art).  Understanding how to create the illusion of 3D on a 2D surface (in this case, our paper) is something all professional artists tackle at some point.  FAMU artists were challenged in art class when they were given the task of replicating (copying) values.  First they practiced with the value scale...then went on to bigger things: portraits.

The UPSIDE DOWN VALUE PROJECT required students to trust the directions given to them in order to complete this project.  In art class (and in life!) we can't give up when things get difficult.  Trusting is hard to do, but students who can learn to listen and trust will allow themselves to get new information and take it from there.  CORNY?  Maybe.  Look at the results when posted and you can decide.

AUTUMN, CAN YOU GET THOSE DESIGNS TO ME THIS WEEK?

Questions about any of this?  Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.


6th Grade GRAFFITI ARTISTS

AMAZING!!!!!!

SAMO a.k.a. Basquiat.

The last POP art project culminated into a whirlwind of other artist information:  Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and his SAMO tag name, BANKSY...there are more to come.

It was with great enthusiasm that FISK artists wanted to learn more about graffiti and the social implications ("isn't it illegal?") of such artwork.  We are covering it all!

FOR HOMEWORK: Scholars were to design 1 alphabet using different styles and then design the alphabet using ONE of the styles they loved in the first part of the homework.  DUE THIS WEEK.

STAY TUNED!!  Questions?  Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.