Ryan Art 6 Learning to Grid to Redraw Photographs

Check out these drawing skills.

Students are practicing to get ready for their PROJECT. 

After researching our TOTEM animals, we have printed off pictures of our animal.

Now we are learning how to REDRAW something accurately for a photograph.

We do this by GRIDDING our drawing AND our sheet of paper.

The grids have to match proportionatly. And there must be the SAME number of squares.

Then- whatever is square A1 of the photograph, needs to be drawn in the A1 box of the blank sheet.

If you follow that pattern for ALL 25 squares you get a REALLY impressive almost exact copy.

We're using HIGHER level thinking skills here. We have to use the LEFT side of our brain to figure out the ORDER and the RIGHT side of brain to figure out HOW to draw it.

We've got some smart kiddos!

Kluender art 78

Art 78 is making progress on their AMAZING platters!!!!! 

My A2 block is smaller than average, so we have decided to take advantage of this and do something different! Students will be doing a "stitched selfie" mixed media project. They took selfies and we altered them in Photoshop, printed them onto tshirt transfer and ironed them onto fabric....More soon!

Kluender art 78

Art 78 is studying Salvador Dali and Surrealism. We worked out in the courtyard because the weather was nice!

Kluender Art 78

I love opening the kiln every morning...its like opening a gift! Very exciting to see what the ceramic projects will look like! Just one more step, adding a clear coat, and then we can turn them in for a grade!

Meanwhile, my A4 and B4 ARt 78 classes are learning about artist Salvador Dali and Surrealism. They completed a worksheet with a partner by reading an article in our Scholastic Art magazines. 

Does anyone notice a photo of Mrs. Kluender on the table?!? This week's journal (#5) is teaching the grid method to draw me!

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Art 6 Ryan Totem

More animal totems....

Read these wonderful explinations of WHY this animal repsents them! Great understanding of symbols!

Ryan Art 6 Totems

Wow! Wow! Wow! 

I am SUPER impresssed with these 6th graders! 

Look at the amount of insight they had in choosing their Totem Animal!

You have to really read these to get the details!

What do you think your totem animal is!?

Each student did a GREAT job justifying why THIS animal should symbolize who they are!

I could read these all day....

You should too! :)

Ryan All Classes Sketchbook Check

Everyday in every class we start with a warm-up drawing called our sketchbook. Students are given a prompt. They respond by drawing a picture and writing 2 complete sentences.

Twice every 9 weeks, sketchbooks are checked. Students are given time in class to make any corrections or add details before they are turned in.

Each sketchbook is graded 5 pts for drawing and 5 pts for sentences. Each sketchbook is then worth 10 points. The teacher is looking for completion, details, background, and content. Sentences are not marked off for incorrect spelling or minor grammatical errors. 

Look for these grades on your PowerSchool. 

Ryan Art 6 Totem Animals

Our 6th graders have begun their first REAL project- as we have put our Semester Project Monsters up for a while.

We are in the planning stages for our 6th graders.

We learned about Native American totems. A totem is an animal used to represent a family or clan. 

We took a personality quiz to identify different aspects and adjectives we could use to describe our personality. We then used THAT information to figure out which totem might represent us.

We do research to help students have "meaning making." What we mean is that we want our students to move AWAY from just making pretty stuff "just because" and move towards having a "WHY" behind our artwork.  Ask your student about their totem animal!

Kluender Art 78

Getting excited! Our Art 78 students are beginning to turn in thge "first wave" of finished sgraffito platters! Right now, our clay has been through the PLASTIC & LEATHERHARD stage and we are waiting for it to become GREENWARE, which means it will be bone dry and ready for me to fire in the kiln. 

Once the clay has been fired, the scratched out areas will be white and the colored areas will be much more vibrant!

Kluender Art 78

Carving.....

Carving....

And even more carving...

Almost done! These are going to be so cool! Great job, Art 78!!!! :)

Kluender Computer Art 78

Hooray! We've completed our first digital project! They may look a little crazy, but our computer art students learned how to create a blank canvas, re-size a photo, use selection tools, and apply image adjustments and filters to a photo! 

If you happen to be visiting our school, check out a few examples on the bulletin board across from Art Studio 103 :)

Ryan Art 6 Semester Project

We also knew our students at SJMS were bright- but check this out! 

They're working on LIGHT boxes to trace their monster master pieces!

Look at the detail in these monsters!

Students who  have finished their drafts have moved on to their final, which we are completing in Sharpie marker.

This lovely monster is spending a day at school! Look at the detail in those lockers!

Kluender CA78

CA 78 students used the idea of a kaleidoscope for their Weekly Journal (#3). We are currently working on a name kaleidoscope design in class. 

Even though they were all given the same directions, the results were varied. This is a good reminder that even though we all get the same set of directions for the digital assignments, that students can make it their own unique piece of artwork by being creative and including bits of their personality.

Our next digital project will be a photo kaleidoscope! 

Kluender Art 78

 

Art 78 practiced sgraffito techniques for their Weekly Journal (#3).

They used crayon and oil pastel to create a small animal sgraffito study.

Ryan A2, B3 Color Theory Exploratory

Our exploratory students haven been working hard to master the color wheel.

These work sheets were colored only using 6 (!) colored pencils, red, orange, yellow, gree, blue and violet. They then learned to blend them to create teritary colors. 

We worked on learning cool colors, warm colors, analgous colors, and complimentary colors!

Kluender Art 78

Students are beginning to transfer their drawings to their LEATHERHARD clay platter. We discussed the 5 stages that our clay project will go through to become a finished CERAMIC piece :)

After transferring the image, we are using carving tools to scratch through or remove the layer of underglaze to reveal the clay underneath in the areas we want white.

Kluender Art 8

This week, Art 8 students are continuing to draw from observation by adding flowers to their can drawings. 

Once the drawing is complete, students are making artistic choices about the materials. They have lots of options to make their artwork unique and individual! They have the option of using pencil to shade, or colored pencil and a huge variety of watercolor techniques to choose from.

 

Week 3 Journal focused on local artist, Heide Trepanier. Students did a watercolor "blob" drawing, then traced it with sharpie to outline the shapes. Some students chose to scan their drawings in to add a colored background using Photoshop for EXTRA CREDIT :)