Animation, Watercolour & Candy Holder, G6

This is an explanation of our grade 6 unit incorporating watercolour, ceramics and animation.

Animal Rights, G7 Eyes & Posters

This unit was a continuation from quarter 1 which I wrote about HERE. Building on the observation skills that the students gained from creating digital eyes on Procreate, they were now ready to learn about grid drawing and pastel techniques. I chose 10 pastel techniques which I knew would assist the students with their eye...

Functional Ceramics in G6 & G7

A CREATIVE CANDY HOLDER The grade 6 class had one class to make a mini pinch pot, a mini donut, and a mini pendant slab. Three important skills in one successful day! After watching a choice of 2 tutorials and a teacher demonstration, they were ready to design their own version of a candy holder....

Beautiful Bones, G8

It was about 5 years ago when I taught this unit. I loved it then, and still love it now. The results are always amazing. Here is a summary of the process my amazing 8th graders followed. STEP 1- COMPOSITION The students began by exploring composition and photography angles using the Essential Skeleton App. The...

G8 BALANCE & HARMONY

The grade 8 students have been exploring radial balance, tints, tones, and shades, whilst also learning about Tibetan and Hindu mandalas. We used the tints and shades to create the optical illusion of the art popping out of the page. It is amazing how many students really achieved this effect. You could see it more...

G7 Fur & Feathers

Day 2 of catching up on my blog posts. This time we are focusing on the grade 7 journey so far. I am so incredibly proud of my students work and enthusiasm. They have combined observational drawing with texture, pattern, watercolour, blind acrylic painting, to digital art, which is now leading to pastel tonal drawing....

G6 STILL LIFE & CHARACTER DESIGN

It has been a crazy busy start to the year. I can't believe it is the end of the quarter already, and I haven't made one post yet! During the break it is my goal to catch up and share one class per day. Today, we are beginning with grade 6. Their quarter felt very,...

Virtual Art Galleries & Flipgrid

This will be my LAST post for this school year 2019-2020. At the bottom of this post, I have included some tutorials that I gave my students, for those of you interested in creating your own virtual rooms. It's so quick, easy and rather addictive! This was a task I introduced because we could not...

Virtual School – Art Challenges

During virtual school one of the BIG challenges for art was access to materials. So I offered my normal units as planned with these slides as an option for students who didn't have the materials.  FOUND OBJECTS AND DRAWING (Slides 2-6) NOTE: All artist connections and resources are in the above slides. These images inspired...

Artist Workshops – Optional for G7 & 8 (physical school)

During social distancing I signed up for the free art course: "Sketchbook Revival" by Karen Abend. What I really loved about it was the surprise factor, it was like a mystery art tour, you never knew what skill you'd be exposed to. Each tutorial was about 20-30mins and each task could easily be completed within...