Exploratory Ryan

After completing their weaving, students then created Op Art shapes to place on top of their weaving.

Here a student is completing his Op Art Sphere.

And here you can see a collection of spheres and cubes!

A completed piece, being graded by the artist. Self-reflection and critique is an important skill for students.

We have some MAJOR op art shapes going on here!

Exploratory Ryan

Here we have our lovely students working hard on an Op Art project.

Using one point perspective students were able to to create the ILLUSION of depth with their weavings.

Here you can see students snipping their loom, weaving and completed. It involved measuring, perspective, and some real hard thinking!

A2 Op Art Weaving

Paper weaving is a challenge.

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!!!!

Exploratory Ceramic Whistles Part 2

I had so many lovely examples that I had to show them all off!

A perky puppy!

A lion!

A plucky beaver!

A grizzly bear!

My room sometimes feels like a zoo, but today it really looked like a zoo!

Exploratory Ceramic Whistles

Here is a look inside our kiln, as I'm unloading. Each time I unload the kiln it's like a little surprise for me! How will the piece have turned out? Will they all be successful?

It makes me very happy to see a kiln with no broken pieces laying on the ground. That means we had no explosions or breakage! Woop!

Each of these piece has been carved out to be a whistle. Students could make an animal, insect or fantasy animal. Above we have a lovely Pegasuses.

Here we have a walrus, look at those great fat wrinkles!

This chubby raccoon balances nicely on his back feet!

And be quiet for this sleeping kitten.

To create these student had to pay close attention to details, shapes, forms and textures. To create something in 3 dimensions requires a shift in the brain from thinking one side to all 360 degrees. There are so many good ones I have more!

Ryan B3 Exploratory

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Students are finishing their circle weavings this week. We used our COLOR THEORY to create either WARM or COOL weavings.

We have been studying the patterns and designs of MANDALAs and we are going to use our CD to be the center of our mandala. We build the pattern out from the center in concentric circles. We talked about make "intricate" patterns. No boring patterns here! 

Here is another student wrapping up their weaving. 

Here you can see a student using a COMPASS to ensure that his mandala is made up of perfect circles. Learning to use tools like this is a great cross-curricular skill. Students will encounter compasses in classes like math or science.

Here is an almost completed mandala. She is starting to add color designs to her mandala. She is matching the inner part of the mandala to the same color scheme of her weaving. Then, the outer part of the design will flip to the opposite color scheme (warm>cool, or cool>warm.)

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 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!