Elijah, 8th grade This semester, I decided to make this our first big project! They did so well with it! Before we finished the project, we had a mini critique. This way, students were able to give compliments and suggestions to others silently. They gave such nice compliments and really helpful suggestions. I was so proud of them! Check out some of their finished cities below! Great work, 2D artists!! See this post for more information about the project.
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A beautiful Visual Journal title page by Paige, 7th grade At the beginning of each semester, my new students begin their journey through art. Throughout my class, they keep a Visual Journal, where they take notes, respond to writing and drawing prompts and do sketches and jot down ideas for projects. These journals are a working piece of art, which starts with their title page. Check out some examples from my 2D and Advanced 2D art classes! Klaire, 8th grade Click the smaller images to see a larger view. James, 8th grade Faith, 8th grade Alex, 8th grade Monica, 8th grade Shakeel, 7th grade Rayne, 7th grade Anna, 8th grade Hemalee, 8th grade Katie, 8th grade Kotone, 8th grade Gretchen, 8th grade Ben, 8th grade I'm so impressed with my students' work... and this is just the beginning!
Welcome new 2D Art and Advanced 2D Art students (and parents)! I'm so excited to get to know you and watch you grow and improve throughout the duration of the class. Here's to a great semester!
What a wonderful time of the year! Each semester, I invite the students to make holiday cards for the patients at Nationwide Children's Hospital. We watched this video together, and although it is encouraging monetary donations, it still seems to touch the students to see the actual patients. Students To read more about the project, click here. The students never cease to amaze me with their creativity and heartfelt sincerity in making these cards. The outside of this card looks like a wrapped gift and the inside has a 3D tree! Fitting for a crown! It worked! Some students created activity pages for their cards! And some even brought special gifts! Take 1... photo bomb. Take 2... success! Thank you, students, for making those beautiful cards! I'm sure you helped brighten some kids' holidays! Thank you also for a wonderful semester! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
This was the first time I've done this project because I was afraid that two-point perspective may be just a little too advanced for the students, but they totally proved me wrong! Two-point perspective can be tricky, but I was so impressed with how incredibly well they did with this project! Joe, 7th grade
Ben, 8th grade Briannah, 7th grade Adrian, 7th grade Kendrick, 8th grade Below, Ocean took what he learned from a prior project and added some graffiti to his building! Ocean, 7th grade Jimmy was inspired by the city of Venice and added canals and bridges, while Ariannah added some street art to the side of her buildings! Hailey, 8th grade Jimmy, 7th grade Ariannah, 7th grade Korey took inspiration from Old Hilliard! Korey, 7th grade I love Halle's tiny details, Tessa's incredible use of space and Avery's old Western theme! Halle, 7th grade Tessa, 8th grade Avery, 7th grade Dominic loves to incorporate clowns into his projects so he made a clown town complete with Honk Inc., Clown House, and upside down house. Dominic, 7th grade Uday did a Spongebob inspired city, Claire was inspired by Harry Potter and Caled created a castle with dragon included! Uday, 8th grade Claire, 7th grade Caleb, 7th grade Drew recreated his grandparent's house in France!! He even has icicles on his balcony! Drew, 8th grade Rachel did an actual entire city! Luke did a Simpsons inspired city and Chloe did a castle with a mote. Rachel, 7th grade Luke, 7th grade Chloe, 7th grade Joel created a sweet little neighborhood in Christmastime. Joel, 8th grade Awesome job, kiddos!!!
Betty Rubble by Amanda, 8th grade This is a new project that I'm super excited about! I've always been intrigued by artists' human renditions of characters. Many characters have exaggerated features and unrealistic proportions so we started by analyzing and identifying them. We had some awesome discussion and came to a few realizations, including the observation that Disney princesses have incredibly tiny waists and may cause young girls to have a skewed body image. The students realized that they have been told by the media (not only Disney), that beauty is often times unreachable and unrealistic. Their assignment became this: take an animated character and give it realistic human proportions! Violet from the Incredibles by Hailey, 8th grade
We had some cool action poses for a little extra challenge! See some of their quick sketches below. It was finally time to start sketching their character in realistic proportions. Check out how much Janea's drawing improved from her sketch! I was so impressed! How cute is this older version of Dora by Maddy (8th)?! Of course, we had to have our Frozen characters! Olaf became a man and Elsa's dress was modernized a bit! Click the images to see a closer view. Leanna, 7th grade Lauren, 8th grade Cami, 7th grade Lauren wasn't the only student to take an extra challenge by picking a non-human character; we also had... Tom chasing Jerry by Brogan (7th) and Kylie (7th)! I can't quite remember the name of this character by Luke, but I think it is AWESOME! Nicki, 7th grade Shreya, 7th grade Tori, 7th grade Mickey and Minnie Mouse by Cody (8th) and Emily (7th) Woody from Toy Story by Caleb (7th)! A Mortal Kombat character by Alex, 7th grade Here are some superheroes, by Adrian (8th), Isaac (7th) and Mitchell (7th)! Luigi, by Kendrick (8th) is pretty awesome! And he wasn't our only character from Mario... We had Mario himself, Princess Peach, and little Toad family! Aiden, 7th grade Rachel, 7th grade Cameron, 7th grade A Hetalia character by Ava (7th) See if you can guess any of these ones! And last, but certainly not least, a beautiful drawing by Meg (7th)!
Tatiana, 7th grade I love to start the year out with this project! It gives the students an opportunity to experiment with different types of mediums while allowing me to get a better idea of where they are at artistically. We study the Pop Art movement with a focus on former Ohio State graduate, Roy Lichtenstein. (Above: Ohhh...Alright..., Roy Lichtenstein, 1964) I've done this project before, and it started out the same; drawing a self-portrait using the grid method. I didn't change much this year, but the students did. They got so creative and really pushed their projects to the next level! Some students had accidents that had to solve which ultimately ended up adding so much to their paintings! For example, Anthony (who insisted on making his face green) was not happy about the inconsistencies of the Ben-Day dots that he had created. The dots were very close together on the left side of his neck but much more spread out on the other areas of his face and neck. After some discussion, he found a solution to his problem that ultimately added so much to his work; he discovered shading! Through his one small mistake, he not only improved his work, but also inspired others! Like Maddie seen below! Other students added Ben-Day dots to other areas and got super creative with their backgrounds.. Some even incorporated themes! Check them out! Ocean, 7th grade Click the smaller images to see a larger view. Hayley, 8th grade James, 7th grade Ava, 7th grade Cody, 8th grade Adrian, 7th grade Sydney, 7th grade Ben, 8th grade Meg, 7th grade Carlo, 8th grade Rachel, 7th grade Klara, 8th grade I can't even get over the creativeness of this one. So good! Dominic, 7th grade Amanda, 8th grade Tylor, 8th grade Joe. 7th grade Clay Kent, 7th grade superhero Elisabeth, 8th grade Ian, 7th grade Shreya, 7th grade Cameron, 7th grade I am SO proud of these kiddos!! Keep it up! Mike, 7th grade
This project turned out to be incredibly fun! Art Alive was a collaborative project where 2D Art students created groups and picked a famous painting to recreate on a 2'x4' luon board. Once they finished the paintings, I cut out the faces of the figures in order to transform these Art Alive paintings into interactive works of art! After the faces were cut out, students sanded them down and did minor touch ups. Next, we had a little Twitter competition to see which pieces would have the honor of being displayed at Weaver's Annual Art Show! We took all of the paintings down to the commons for lunch and asked students to participate in the competition by taking their picture with their favorite paintings and tweeting it out to @wmscats with an #ArtAlive hashtag. This was so cool to watch! Click images below to get a better look! Here's a beautiful dancing ballerina! Once the results were in, it was time to start setting up for the art show! Students helped create signs to advertise and posted them around the building. After many hours of real life Tetris, the art space was ready for guests! We had a great turnout! And I'm so glad guests were getting interactive with the Art Alive! Hey! It's Miss Emmons! Thanks to all who attended and an extra special thanks to Dennis Hoffman and to all of the students who helped out! I had such a great time meeting parents and family to tell them about their rock star kids. Thank you to a great year and here's to many more to come!
Ah, spring is finally here! What better way to celebrate it than to make artwork with spring patterns! We studied contemporary pop artist, Romero Britto (see his artwork to the left). The students then made a centerpiece and divided their background into separate sections and added patterns and colors to finish off their work! Check them out below! The students have so much fun with this project and it shows through their fantastic work!
Adapted from this lesson. Fly with the Wind by Brayden Printmaking is a long process, but it's so worth it! For this project, we studied the history of printmaking and looked at several artists who practiced the technique. We focused on pop artist, Andy Warhol, and took inspiration especially from his Endangered Species series (example on the right). He used bright and unnatural colors but still portrayed the animal realistically. Grevy’s Zebra by pop artist, Andy Warhol They sketched and did a final drawing of their animal and then transferred it to a Styrofoam plate. The final piece had to include three mounted print that each had three layers of different colored ink. They had to carve some, ink and print, carve more, and repeat the process. On the right is Richaurd working on his second layer prints. Check out a few other second layer prints below by Kayla, Sophie, and Hannah. Next was the third layer. How adorable are these penguin prints by Jordan?! And this awesome shark by Abby! Once they had printed their third layer on all their prints, they trimmed and mounted them and finished their pieces off by titling and signing them. Feeling Crabby by Isaac Parrot of Disguise by Kyanna The Bugel by Jesse America's Bird by Dominic The Roaring Bear by Koichi Racing Stripes by Abbey Swan Song by Taylor Lion's Pride by Jessica Lazy Sunday by Kelly The Rainbow Wolf by Madysen Acrobatic Bald Eagle by Jesse 3 Shades of Elephant by Sydnee The Long Neck Series by Hannah The Wise Old Owl by Devyn Fishy Friends by Alex Above are a few final prints by Savannah, Ezra, and Joshua. I'm so proud of the 2D students not only because of their outstanding work, but also for the responsibility they displayed throughout the process of the entire project. Special thanks to multiple students in 1st period for their willingness to help set out materials each morning (even when I didn't ask) and to many in 7th period for cleaning (and organizing) materials at the end of each day! You guys rock!
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