Art 7/8 Ryan Cards

Our Art 7/8 class is creating a deck of cards through print making. Our theme is underwater.

Students transfer their design to blocks which they will soon be carving!

Students work on positive and negative space, and balancing out those elements.

They also have to figure out how to make their design carve-able! :)

RYAN ALL CLASSES

Just a reminder to parents and students! The semester ENDS next week!
All projects are DUE on Jan 15th (A DAYS) or Jan 16th (B DAYS)!!!!


For Art 6 this includes:

-SEMESTER PROJECT W/ CRITIQUE SHEET
-TOTEM POLE GLAZED W/ CRITIQUE SHEET
-GEORGIA O'KEEFE PASTEL W/ CRITIQUE SHEET

For Exploratory this includes

-MASK W/ CRITIQUE SHEET
-CLAY WHISTLE GLAZED W/ CRITIQUE SHEET
-TESSELLATION W/ CRITIQUE SHEET


Most students are on track to finish, please check in with YOUR student to see where they are!

After school time to catch up on work is on Tuesdays from 3:45-5:00PM sharp.

ALSO

Any student who comes to the ART SHOW this weekend will receive an EXTRA '100 A' averaged into their grade!


Please e-mail Mrs. Ryan with any questions!!!!

Ryan Art 6 Georgia O'Keefe

Ryan -Fired Totem Animals

Students were asked to include a 'family object' on their totem. This family object should have meaning in the family. This student included candy balanced on their animal's nose!

Very soon we will be glazing our animals! Here's what they look like prior to the glaze.They are now in their bisqueware state. They are hard and strong. But they are still porous. 

Their expressions are great! Here we have a deer!

And finally a pelican :) These are going to look so amazing painted! 

Art 6 Georgia O'Keefe Drawings

We have moved on to our (LAST) project of the semester.

A quick study on Georgia O'Keefe!

Here we are drawing from life- looking at skulls and flowers.

These drawings will be transformed into a an oil pastel drawing!

What a nice, quiet focused way to head into the holiday break!

Ryan Totem's Wrapping Up Before Break!!!

Our student's have finished their totem's and the firing has begun! Here are a few animal totem sculptures prior to going in our kiln!

A lion cub animal totem

A long horn bull animal totem- even with his ear ID Tag!

The Totem is Coming

Huge thanks to Ms. Davis- our wonderful shop teacher for loaning tools and students to create our totem pole! It took a lot of elbow grease to get so many totem's cut for student use!

THANK YOU MS. DAVIS!!! :)

Getting Ready for Totem Poles

Our Art 6 students will be making a totem pole. Each student is getting a 6" section of PVC pipe to build around. This will be a ceramic project- and will eventually be installed in the courtyard and hopefully the office! 

And Mrs. Ryan is getting to play with the Miter Box Saw. And everybody is happy.

Art 6 Coloring Monotypes

Art 6 is almost done with their third version of their monotype!

The realistically colored one! Students mastered their color wheel and now they're coloring using blending and shading.

Wow! These look great!

Art 6 Still Life Ryan

All of our students drew a still life for our sketchbook today!

We then spent the next few minutes in an art critqiue. Students had to use their higher level thinking skills to analyze what was good about a classmates drawing, and what might need improvement.

We learned about constructive criticism.

In the above picture the students are comparing the drawing to the still life, trying to determine how accurate it was.

Here you can see these ladies pointing out details they're going to talk about.

Great collaborative work and higher level thinking skills going on!

Look at the intense ART related discussion we're having! 

Nothing makes an art teacher happier then kids not only DOING art but THINKING about it!

Ryan A4 Blind Contour Drawings

Students are practicing DRAWING without looking at their paper. This means that they are focusing on their subject.

It makes for lots of giggles, but really interesting abstracted art! 

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!

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!

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!