New Year - New Art!

Happy 2015!
A lot is going on!  VOCABULARY WILL CONTINUE IN 2015 and it will always be cumulative, so refer back to your notes regularly!

7th Grade:   

Have your thumbnail sketches for your Social Action Project for our next class.  Push yourself because generic 'issues' won't cut it.  You have to care about the issue you are choosing.  WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH YOU?  If the answer is 'not much' then you need to dig deeper.

"Peanuts" by Charles Schultz

8th Grade:

Study your notes from the Power Point you saw before break about Graphic Novels.  You will be tested on this in the next 2 weeks.  Also, bring in an example of the TYPE of graphic novel you are interested in creating. Have you though of characters?  Where is the setting?  Will there be a narrator?  We will get into this during class, but start thinking seriously about your, ORIGINAL novel you will be working on.

6th Grade:

Continue reviewing the East Coast and Mid-western states…you MUST know them.  The Western states will be next.  TEST YOURSELF with this online quiz!

Be ready to show and share your images from the research we have done on the states you will be planning your trips to.  You should have graphic organizer-style notes on each state with attractions YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VISITING with photos/pictures/drawings to match.

5th Grade:

Choose 3 items in your life and draw contour line drawings of each of them.  Check your POINT OF VIEW (the position you are observing from) and ask yourself "Is this interesting to look at?"  How can you change your point of view to make your COMPOSITION (the layout or design of your page) more interesting?   Remember, you have to look at your subject and your paper constantly and get the INNER and OUTER edges (lines!) of your objects.  Get to work and have this for next week's classes!

DOJO EXTRA…If you have an artistic-style New Year's Resolution that you would like to share, write it out on a Post-It note and give it to Ms. Hillman on Tuesday, January 6th.  Put your name on it!  See you Tuesday!

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

Get Artsy Over the Holiday Break

Any questions about the information below, please email: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.

7th Grade Social Action Visual Art Project

You asked to be first and you are receiving.  The Social Action Poster Project is going to be a big deal. So big that you need to start creating your thumbnail sketches for your design ideas.  What is the social issue you are interested in exploring?  What text will you include?  How will you make the text 'match' the theme of your issue?  What imagery will you use - collage? photography? drawing?  So many options…and the ENTIRE HOLIDAY BREAK to think it over!  Come prepared with 3 thumbnails and ideas for the layout of your poster.

Look at artwork that inspires you to come up with your own ideas.  Barbara Kruger's work (on the left) "Your Body Is A Battleground" is a photographer who uses text and color in her artwork.  Sheperd Fairey used his experience with street art posters to make powerful posters supporting Barack Obama when he ran for President.

8th Grade Graphic Novels

Morehouse & Spelman will earn their painting licenses into the New Year.  This is going to be useful for future art projects and could play a part in the upcoming Graphic Novel project.  Starting with the basics of drawing realistically, scholars learned about gesture drawing, contour line drawing and even dabbled in blind contour line drawings.  Then we moved onto contour line painting on a larger scale (enter the realm of the Painting Licenses), which will be gracing our hallways very soon.  Graphic novels and planning to add visuals to a narrative is going to be tricky, but we can and will do it!

5th Grade Sculptors

As we study the work of artist and toy-maker Alexander Calder, we are drawing from life from the best models ever…ourselves!  There will be a homework assignment over the break in which scholars will view a video Calder made of his 'circus'.  Stay tuned for updates coming soon.

Calder artwork.

6th Grade Designers

We have broken out the computers to start adding to our knowledge of the United States - not only facts about the states but attractions found in these states.  The classwork must be completed and homework must be completed well and on time.  We are designing our 'trip' to each state and will soon be designing so much more...

Modified Art Schedule - Dec 15-19

Regularly scheduled art classes will be on Monday and Friday, but Tuesday - Thursday will be very different due to the testing schedule.  ONLY 5th and 6th Grade classes will have ART Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

One of my favorite portraits from last year.
Katrell TRULY was looking!

5th Grade

Scholars who did not pass the Alexander Calder worksheet last week have until Monday, December 15th to make corrections and improve upon that grade.

This week, scholars will be looking closely at themselves and the artwork of Alexander Calder, who made line sculpture portraits.  No quizzes this week!

6th Grade

Geography in art class…yes!  Art classes nearly every day this week for Hampton & FISK provides us with a lot of opportunity to dive into researching the monuments, history and overall awesomeness of our respective states chosen for the design project.  You have to study the Northeast, Southern and Midwestern states because we MUST know where every state is located for this next project.  Click here for a preview of what we will be doing:  MAP QUIZ US STATES.  No vocabulary quizzes this week but if you had corrections to make on any of last week's assessments, it is due by Wednesday.  Missing work becomes a zero in grade book, so get that work to me!

7th Grade FAMU & Howard

7th Grade will only have art class on Friday, but I want you to come prepared for class with at least three different ideas for your social action project.  This means:  come with at least three social issues you are passionate about.  Have at least 5 facts about those issues (for example, if you are choosing gay rights as one of the issues, you could have statistical information about how a new bill in Michigan would let doctors and EMTs refuse to treat gay patients.  What would the VISUAL for that look like?  You will need your sketchbook and this homework assignment on Friday.

In the meantime, listen to this current SOCIAL ACTION SONG for inspiration.  If you can tell me the name of the song and artist, you will earn 3 Dojo points from me (Ms. Hillman).  No vocabulary quizzes this week.

8th Grade Spelman & Morehouse

Because of the testing schedule this week, only Spelman will have art class on Monday.  Come prepared:  study to PASS the painting license test, group contour line paintings continue.  BOTH 8th grade classes will have a minor homework packet to complete over the holiday break that has to do with our next big project: Graphic Novels.  No vocabulary quizzes this week but corrections are due  and any missing work is due by Wednesday or it becomes a zero…you don't have class with me, but it's still due.  Find me in between classes or at lunch time.

8th Grade Dojo Update

Earn as many points as possible!

Art Update December 8 - 12th

8th Grade INFO & Art Classes

**Scholars who met the Class Dojo incentive by the end of day on Friday, December 5th will receive their passes on Monday.  Dress Down Passes must be approved by an 8th grade teacher the day PRIOR to when you want to use the pass (because certain days cannot be dress down).  Hang on to the passes…new ones will not be reissued!**

And now for ART CLASS INFO:

Scholars are learning drawing basics:  Contours, gestures and blind contour drawings.  It's difficult but it is vital that they stick with pushing through when things get difficult.  The culmination of these mini-lessons are heading towards a larger project involving designing a graphic novel, which will continue in their ELA classes with Mrs. Andrade.  

VOCAB for this week (10 words).  Quiz coming soon so be prepared!
Form
Shape
Space
organic (in regards to shape)
geometrical
cropping
still life
negative space
positive space
dialogue (in regards to 

7th Grade Collage Project - The Last Part

The "Challenge I Overcame" collage was completed this past week.  The finishing touch is to write a one and a half page (1.5 page ...minimum) paper about the challenge that is the subject of the artwork.  I PREFER ALL PAPERS TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT SIZE 12.  If that is not possible, the written work must be legible, be WRITTEN IN PARAGRAPHS WITH PROPER GRAMMAR.

Touch on the following aspects in your writing:

- Give credit line information about your artwork:

"Title"

Artist Name, Year

Materials used

- What the challenge was that you used in your artwork.

- What made you choose this particular challenge for your art class? 

- Explain what is happening in your artwork and use vocabulary words - (describe it as if you are explaining it to someone who cannot see your artwork)

- What would you do differently if you had to do this project again?  Why?

- What was the challenge in making your artwork?  What do you feel was successful?

6th Grade Geography/Art Class!

Scholars are learning about the US States for their next project, which is a design project that will incorporate what they have learned about the states AND The Line variations!

Students must make corrections on their tests and return to me ASAP for an improved grade.  

Vocabulary for this week:

Know the States and their Capitals in the Mid-west and how to spell them correctly. 

5th Grade Artists

Alexander Calder created kinetic artwork using wire and line.  Our scholars are going to know the ins and outs of this artist and how to use line in a 3-dimensional way!  The worksheet on Calder is due Monday (Xavier) and Tuesday for Tuskegee.

Vocabulary for this week (some are found in the Calder worksheet) - 5 words:

kinetic

sculptor

sculpture

resource

contour line