Watercolors!

Art I students are beginning a new project that combines their skills in both graphite and colored pencils. Here is a detail from one of the examples I showed them.
This is a finished project from a previous year. Today most students we able to create line drawings of their projects. Tomorrow they will start shading.

Art II students are beginning a big unit on watercolor paints. The first activity that we are working on is a mixing chart. The following is Savana's finished chart.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Art I

1. Warm-up: mid-year review (draw and shade your hand)

2. Review 6 perspective techniques using PowerPoint.

3. Continue RR drawing.

4. Reminder about homework- landscape drawing.

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW due on Friday!

Art II

1. Grid 18x18 piece of paper.

2. Paint the yellow and orange rows.

3. Clean up.

4. Reminder about homework- landscape drawing.

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW due on Friday!

Art I

1. Warm-up: Shade an apple (organic shape)

2. Review 6 perspective techniques using PowerPoint.

3. Continue RR drawing.

4. Explain homework- landscape drawing.

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW due on Friday!

Art II

1. Carve patterns onto the vessel.

2. Clean up.

3. Explain homework- landscape drawing.

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW due on Friday!

Art I students are currently working on this RR track drawing in 1-point perspective. So far we have shaded our railroad and our sidewalk. We drawing this project together as a class. It is time consuming but the end results are well worth it!
Art II students are working on creating a ceramic piece. We created the vessels out of red clay and then covered them with gray slip. Tomorrow we are going to carve through the slip and what we carve away will show up as a red design.

MPHS Student Artwork on Display

This is just a sampling of some of the artwork that will be on display at our local dentist office.

Tuesday, March 19, 2012

Art I

1. Warm-up: Work with a partner to draw a cube in 1-point perspective.

2. Skills development: Shade a cone

3. Skills development: hatching value scale

4. Begin RR drawing

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW- due on Friday. Your favorite animal doing the action verb you wrote down incorporating your 2 favorite colors.

Art II

1. Warm-up: look at examples of patterns

2. Create a pattern using a person, an animal and an abstract line or shape.

3. Work on homework-animal, action verb, 2 favorite colors.

Homework:

· Bring $10 supply fee.

· HW- due on Friday. Your favorite animal doing the action verb you wrote down incorporating your 2 favorite colors.

Art II

We have recently finished our realistic colored pencil drawings. Here are 3 great examples. These drawings will be hanging in a local dentist officer for several weeks. Great job!
Tree Frogs by Lena
Zinnia by Maria
Pansies by Ben

Art I finished working on their color wheels today.
Here is an example of the finished product.


Adriana's color wheel
close-up view
close-up view

Congrats to Bobby L. for winning the
county-wide energy conservation logo contest!
You make me and MPHS proud!

Painted Pinch Pot Critters

Some of first period's painted pinch pot critters! Aren't the adorable?

Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings

Art II has moved on from abstract colored pencil drawings to realistic color pencil drawings.

They are creating some amazing drawings!
Ben's pansies
Peyton's butterfly
Thomas' anemones
Tyler's clown fish
Joe's zinnia

Color Wheel

Today Art I is beginning the process of creating a color wheel using colored pencils.


Step 1: Everyone starts with a blank circle.
Step 2: everyone selected another circle that has images attached to it.
Step 3: Everyone creates a line drawing on the blank circle (shown in step 1) of the images that are on the circle selected in step 2.
Everyone shades the line drawing with colored pencils so that it looks like a color wheel.

Friday!

Art I students spent today finishing up their abstract paintings. Bobby L.
Savannah F

While Art II students worked on their second visual journal page.

Maria L.

Open House/Open Door

Figuratively my door is always open to you and your son/daughter. Please call me, email me, or stop by to see me if you are concerned about how your son/daughter is progressing in my art class or you just want to see what he/she has been up to lately.

But tonight from 5-7pm by door will literally be open because tonight is our second semester Open House. I would love to see you here at the school tonight. So if you can fit it into your busy schedule, stop by and see me. I am upstairs in room B221!