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This year (2009) we started the year with monochromatic compositions.
They first learned many fun watercolor techniques
(using rubbing alcohol, salt, and saran wrap to create textures) and how
to use a fan brush to create some fun line designs.
They also choose one color to work in and created small collages with
their color and words and/or letters.
Then they took all of these creations and put them into a large
composition broken up into at least 10 areas.
Here are some of the creative results...
This won an honorable mention in the Boston Globe
Scholastic Art Awards this year!
then we made
big circle designs
It's now the end of February and some have finished their compositions based on a theme: go to squares
Soon we will be creating a painting on canvas in acrylic paint.
In the school year 2008-2009,
the paintings below were on display in the senior center at the community center in Cohasset
. (scroll down to
see what other things we do in 8th grade art!)
Before they created the paintings above, I have my eighth grade students practice painting
such
as the ones you see below.
It is a painting on canvas paper. We start
with a yellow shape,
then they add a little dab of red
each time to the yellow
until they get to red, then from red
they add blue until they get to blue,
then
from blue they mix a little yellow each time.
When they're done the whole
paper is full. After it dries, they use tape to do a line design
and paint
white and/or black on top. After it dries,they peel the tape off.
2) Then they do more practice paintings! ANALOGOUS PAINTINGS: choose either red, orange, yellow and white
or blue, green, yellow and white, start with a line and/or a shape in one of
their colors and can add any of the colors to it, using
the same mixing
techniques as the previous painting.
3) a MONOCHROMATIC painting: choose one color and mix white and/or black
4) MORE PRACTICE PAINTINGS: a SEASCAPE: learning to make clouds with a round sponge, lines to create water and reflections, and land, a palm tree and a sail boat are optional, and then 5) a LANDSCAPE with either a warm or cool sky, and by choice: mountains, a city, a road or river
Their FINAL PAINTING can be from a photograph or they need to sketch out a
composition and plan out
the colors before they begin.
go to clocks
go to black and white grid drawings
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