Finally Back!

Wow! Last week was a crazy week, so we have a lot of work to do to get back on track. Today we began class by reviewing material that will be on the exam- shading a sphere and 1 & 2-point perspective. Next, we watched our last art history video- modernism. After the video, we took notes on proportion. Finally, we drew the human body in proportion using geometric shapes.

Finally Friday! We continued reviewing for our exam during the first part of class. We are reviewing a little each day to refresh our memory about things we covered earlier in the semester. It is hard to believe that exams start on Wednesday. Then we check our last homework grade. And we finished up our color wheel project. Have a great weekend!

Example of finished color wheel project

Example of finished color wheel in colored pencils.
Detail of warm colors in the color wheel
Detail of cool colors in the color wheel

Jennifer coloring in her green section of the color wheel.
A close up of Jennifer's color wheel.

Adriana working on her color wheel.A close up if Adriana's color wheel.

Student Examples of our Mosaic Project

Take 30 minutes to finish step one of the project- cut out and glue down images of objects out of the magazines. Move on to step 2- draw a line drawing of the images glued down on the circle.By the end of the class, finish step 3- divide the circle into 6 pie pieces.

Tomorrow we will begin working on step 4- painting our color wheel.

Homework:
1. Bring in magazines for extra credit.
2. Weekly sketchbook activity due Friday- draw your dream house
3. Mosaic projects are due Wednesday.

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great break. I know I sure did. But now it is time to get back to work. We spent the first part of class today the way we have spent most Mondays- watching a short art history video. This video was about modernism in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Next we started our final major project. This project helps us review some importance elements of art we have learned this semester: line and color. It also helps us review some skills we have learned this semester: line drawing, mixing paint, and painting.