Well, it's REALLY happening...we are getting closer to the summer and the current school year's close.
No matter what grade you survived this year, I hope you are aware that MY STUDENTS ARE AMAZING. I've seen so much growth - whether it was academic, artistic, behavioral or emotional, I love my kids (a.k.a. my students). As the school year comes to a close, we have to understand the limited time we have in Art Classes, so I will do my best to make sure we finish strong...will you make that same effort?
6th Grade ~ FISK
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| 3 THUMBNAILS DUE NEXT CLASS |
How about that GRAFFITI "Wall" we put up? The soft pastels really POP and the artists in FISK excelled at their design task of creating a graffiti tag with 3-5 characters. They blended those soft pastels to perfection too!
NOW...on to GESTURE, the figure, with the "THAT TIME I FELL" artwork. Scholars have to create three THUMBNAIL SKETCHES (small sketches used to figure out their composition, or layout). They may use gesture drawing for the figure but the final piece will be more realistic. Scholars should also include information from their Art Mad Libs classwork, where they described the setting of their artwork. SETTING IS IMPORTANT for your artwork and should include BACKGROUND and FOREGROUND (you FALLING will most likely be the foreground of your artwork).
Questions about any of this? Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.
7th Grade ~ FAMU Artists
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| Sun Prints drew a crowd! |
A handful of students were able to work on the sun print task because they came prepared for class. If you scholar (or if YOU are the SCHOLAR) who came unprepared for art class last Wednesday, you are doing this:
1) Research & be able to explain all Printmaking Techniques (see below list) in a digital slide show that will be presented to FAMU.
2) Choose two artists that work in each printmaking technique.
3) Choose two pieces of artwork from each artist and technique and give credit line and info about the artist. Add photos to slideshow or poster.
Craftsmanship is KEY for this...Minimum of 12 slides if creating a digital slide presentation. If creating a poster, make sure information is clear and easy to read. DESIGN HEADINGS using line variations.
TECHNIQUES
a) Lithography
b) woodcut
c) Silkscreen
d) Etching
e) Monotype
f) Monoprint
Questions about any of this? Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.
8th Grade ~ MOREHOUSE ARTISTS
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| One of the winning designs by Aliyah B. |
T-SHIRTS for Senior T-Shirt Due Tuesday. We print!
T-Shirt should be a light color and mostly made of cotton.
Questions about any of this? Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.
5th Grade ~ XAVIER Artists
As the quarter ends, I want my youngest artists to finish SUPER STRONG! The final project is a piece about your future self. We have talked about how the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) plus white create many beautiful skin tones. My students are SMART, KIND AND IMPORTANT , in other words:
awesome! I want to know how you are going to put your talents to use as adults, so the FUTURE SELF PORTRAIT will include information from the ART MAD LIBS task that infused nouns, adjectives and verbs to help us plan out the artwork. We start final sketches this week after the THREE THUMBNAIL SKETCHES are completed in class. Come prepared and ready to work.
Questions about any of this? Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.
These artists have been exploring the wonderful world of color and they are completing their color wheel designs to show understanding of the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The class had a discussion about skin tones and had to figure out how to create their own skin tone using the primary colors and white. This is a difficult task but students used their arms as the gauge! Watch this space for more on this thought-provoking project.
Students in FAMU have been working hard on the current project where they could choose to create a pattern field, line variations or a portrait of a human or animal. Artists used linoleum tools to scratch into the clay sheets to reveal a white in their artwork. The task they must complete is to create a piece that has high contrast and allows the eye to move around their composition. Understanding value and light helps create the illusion of depth when applied to drawings. FAMU scholars are doing a great job.
The completion of the graffiti tag using soft pastels left students wondering 'what else can we draw?" so the GESTURE DRAWING project began. Students will embark on the truth about artwork - you can draw anything if you break it down into shapes. Understanding how to create dynamic emotions is a skill students can use throughout their artistic growth. They started with basic hands and will continue with full body poses.
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.
Masks are in FULL EFFECT! Adding exaggerated and ugly features to their designs is what will make the final result its best. Scholars watched the Wedding Haka of New Zealand Maori tradition and looked at masks from different countries. SOME brave students are allowing Ms. Hillman to make masks from their faces while others are creating the base of their masks on balloons. Scholars are learning how to use plaster strips (Rigid Wrap) to create sturdy structure for their grotesque masks.
The next project is a big one, but scholars need to know the basic and the not-so-basic aspects of color. Students must know that the Primary Colors (RED, YELLOW & BLUE) create the Secondary colors (Green, Violet and Orange).
8th Graders on their way to High School!
Questions? Email Ms. Hillman: jhillman@cpcsschool.org.
ALL GRADES, PLEASE READ!
Last Quarter, Hampton artists created Pop Art self-portrait paintings. They studied the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein and the results were wonderful. Now that Xavier has art, we decided to UP the CRITERIA a bit more and students are being asked to push themselves beyond their comfort zones!