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2 point perspective-Art 1
Here is the 2 point perspective unit. I will add to this post each day. 12-3-Here is what we did in class today. Practice #1 students either finished in class or took home for homework. horizon line...
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Art 1-Finger Painting
Today for the first day of school we did some finger painting. Students were instructed to blend the blue and white paint and add texture with a fork. This will end up being the paper we use for a...
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Art 1- Landscape pop up
Inspired by this post: http://artforelementaryteachers.com/2013/04/25/art-lesson-my-life-pop-up-book/ I decided I would explain landscapes by making landscape pop ups. First we cut ou t the paper: Then...
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Value Scale Quotes-Art 1
Last week students in Art 1 created value scales in between the letters of a quote. I think some of them turned out stunning!
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Contour Lines-Art 1
We worked on contour lines and drawing depth from observation. We used water to wet the marker and add in shading. Here are a few of the finished pieces.
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Color Wheel with Update
11/14 Today we started to paint in our color wheel with acrylic paint. Here is what we accomplished-Yellow with 2 tints and 2 shades. UPDATE: 11/17-Here are some color wheels in progress.
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Negative Space Chair-Art 1
Students cut out newspaper and filled in the negative space of the chair from their perspective. Students working, chair in progress:
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Giving Thanks
I had my students create hand turkeys…while it might be an activity in elementary school, it doesn’t mean that we can’t do it in high school. My students loved it! They wrote thank you notes to the...
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Grid Face in progress-Art 1
We are working in charcoal on a gridded face in Art 1. I snapped a few shots of these in progress works that my students are doing. Before we started creating these we looked at Chuck Close’s work and...
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