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!
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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)!
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