Art Club and Art For The Soul

The first task for Art club this year was playing with watercolour and photography techniques, inspired by this website: Colossal

The next task will be a painting inspired by Britto.

 

ART FOR THE SOUL (FREE ART CLASSES FOR THE TEACHERS)

It’s not just the students who have had a great start to art but we have 20 teachers signed up for free art classes. Their first task is a layering project. I helped them with the background but now they need to PLAY and figure our what they want to do with it.

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Most of these are work in progress. Don’t they look brilliant! I could not be happier with both art clubs. You are all STARS!

HS Mark Making Portraits

After exploring creative mark making techniques and a variety of drawing exercises the students are now working on a small canvas. They had to grid their posterized faces, these were then traced onto the canvas. The fun part was applying marks to the canvas with paint and dry media.

The last step was to fill in the black section from the posterized photo to create contrast. The results are looking fantastic and will be completed next class.

 

Grade 8 Endangered Animals are Complete

THE FINAL RESULTS

I blogged about this task earlier, in that post you can read about the steps my students took to reach this point. This post is to celebrate their success and fill you in on what they are doing now, as life is getting pretty exciting in Studio 300.

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You can also view their work on Artsonia. The students have written about their work there too.

DIGITAL ART

Once they were complete the students had a chance to play with all our manipulation apps, they were then asked to merge them in a creative way using Superimpose on the iPads. These images will be printed onto a banner to advertise their endangered animals.

Grind: Fine (Average Circles & Effect: Auto Adjust), Brew: Charmed (No Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Soy (Clear Tone & Paper Cup Texture)

Grind: Medium (Average Circles & Effect: Auto Adjust), Brew: Ray Ray (No Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Black (Clear Tone & Paper Cup Texture)

Grind: Extra Fine (Average Circles & Effect: Auto Adjust), Brew: Circles (No Pic & Full Blended Circles), Serve: Black (Vignette Tone & Paper Cup Texture)

By Austin

 

CONNECTING WITH NEW YORK

We have been excitedly waiting for our New York buddies to get back to school so that we can meet them. Right now, in Vietnam and NY we are creating digital collages, which are being loaded onto Thinglink this site allows us to add extra photos and a video to introduce ourselves.

COLLAGES

CONNECTING WITH EDMODO AND PADLET

Once that was created we uploaded the image to Padlet and Edmodo.

Here are a couple of samples from our Padlet, hover over the images and play their videos:

Now, it’s time to wait for our NY buddies to upload theirs! We can’t wait. Next class we will be introducing the actual task and creating letters for the artist who has agreed to connect with us.

 

 

G7 Out Of The Frame

THE DEVELOPMENT

The grade 7 students had their last class for their “Out of the Frame” mixed media tonal drawing. We began with a practise 4 box piece. The purpose of this first task was to improve our drawing skills by drawing our animal from a variety of angles. We then learnt toning techniques and how to apply line variation whilst using different media. Once the four boxes were complete we were then ready to start our final.

THE FINISHED RESULTS

As more students submit their work I’ll add them to this post so stay tuned! The students were being assessed on: their drawing skills, the ability to tone with coloured pencil, application of thick and thin lines, contrast and the size of their animal.

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REFLECTIONS

Once their work was complete they were then required to summarize 6-7 important things they learnt from completing this unit. We used Visual Poetry to do this. Here are some samples:

Now, the students are choosing their own reflection tool and are creating an entertaining piece inspired from their planning template. I will share the final results in another post.

Well done grade 7 these are fabulous!

 

G6 Colour Sculptures and Zen Eyes

The grade 6 students have achieved SO much over the last couple of weeks. They have successfully completed their Zen eyes, turned them into digital art and created a clay plaque inspired by their work.

DIGITAL ART

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COLOUR THEORY SCULPTURES

Now, grade 6 have been cutting cardboard, applying hot glue and covering their pieces with foil. They are all coming together to create a gorgeous relief sculpture. Today, the students are completing their sculptures and adding analogous colours.

Inspired from this video:

Some students finished last class, that is how much they were enjoying the task!

By Oliver 

 

Splash & Dash Endangered Animal G8

The grade 8 students have had a sensational start to the year. They began by learning how to truly see their animal. They created blind, negative space, contour and gesture drawings of their animals.

Then they researched WHY their animal is endangered and presented the information to their peers. This was followed with charcoal research. The students researched, tested and copied charcoal techniques from the Internet.

We then sketched our animal onto watercolour paper and practised the “splash and dash” technique of wet in wet. Now, it was time to learn how to tone our animal with charcoal.

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The final step for the development, was to put the charcoal onto the watercolour paper. Aren’t they gorgeous? I can’t wait to see their finals.

Today 8F sketched their final animal and some students even completed their watercolours. This means next class they are onto the charcoal and will soon be finished! They will be amazing I am sure.

If time permits before we work with our buddies in NY we will create endangered animal posters and email them to some websites/charities to help them raise awareness for their cause.

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Stunning Work in Grade 7

Grade 7 have just finished their practise piece. They had to choose an animal/insect and draw it from 4 different viewpoints. One had to demonstrate line variation, another applied graphite tones, then they had to tone with colour pencil. The fourth box was meant to be a combination of the three techniques. This is their developmental work for their final “Out of the Frame” artwork. More to come soon.

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The students have uploaded their art to Artsonia and written an artist statement.

PARENTS IF YOU HAVEN’T GIVEN PERMISSION ONLINE THE WORK WILL BE HIDDEN.

Artsonia Gallery Screenshot