Kluender art 8

Ooh......Can you guess what Art 8 is making? I am SO EXCITED about these! More images coming soon.....

Czaplicki Art 6 Monotype

Our Art 6 Students are hard at work on our monotype prints.

Mono means ONE. That's because for each run of the plate you only get 1 print. 

Here you can see the plate and the print of a bald eagle. 

Again- here is the plate and print. Look at that lovely texture detail!

Each student did research on birds of North America. Then, copying the style of John James Audubon, we drew detailed drawings of a selected bird. Audubon did hyper-realistic drawings of birds!

Once done drawing we made copies of their image. The students roll ink out on plexiglass, gently press the paper on top and trace. Anywhere they trace with a pencil- picks up ink.  We also make Ghost Prints! Ask your students about whats makes the prints so spooky!

Soon we will be coloring in!

Please ask your student about where they are in the process?

B1 Czaplicki Drawing Like Georgia

A3 Czaplicki Drawing Like Georgia

Students focus as they draw flowers, bones, and shells. Just like the artist Georgia O'Keefe.

We zoomed and cropped! We sketched and shaded!

Next up we will draw our favorite one larger. Then we are going to color and shade it in using oil pastels.

Czaplicki & Kluender Open Studio Time

On Mondays, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Ms. Kleunder and Czaplicki hold "Open Studio" time during Flex. This gives students an opportunity to come and finish incomplete work, catch up if they're behind, or make sure that they are going ABOVE and BEYOND to get that "A!"

It also gives them a time to get some more individual attention if they are having trouble!

Czaplicki B1 Sketchbook and Masks

Today after our sketchbook we did an informal critque of our drawings. We talked about "glows" and "grows." Each student chose another student's sketchbook  and gave one succesful part of their drawing. Then we gave a grow- or something that the artist could work on. We worked on constructive criticism. Critiquing is a great way to work on our analytical skills. We have to evaluate the artwork, make decisions about the quality, and express it elequently. 

Our masks are almost done. We based these off of fear. See if you can figure out who is afraid of spiders, who is afraid of chickens, who is afraid of snakes, and who is afraid of mythical creatures!

Now we're going to paint them with acrylic paint! THEN we'll critique them!

Czaplicki B1 Art 6 Masks

I have some of the best (goofiest) students in the world. Look at these awesome (in process) masks!

Czaplicki B1 Sketchbook Shoes

We're really working hard on our drawing skills. Practice makes perfect! We got so invovled in our other paper mache project, I didn't snap any pictures! Enjoy these two snippits of our 10 minute drawing warm up!

Czaplicki 6th Grade Art 10/2/201

Ms Czaplicki's 6th graders these past two days got to pratice blind contour drawing for their sketchbook. This is an exercise to get students to LOOK at what the subject they are drawing, not at their drawing, Looking at our subject ensures that we draw what we see, not what we THINK it looks like.

Then we began to build our armatures for our masks that we will be making based off of a fear that we have. We spent last class discussing fear. We asked some questions with not so simple answers: Is fear a good or bad thing? Why? Do different cultures have different fears? Why? How do we react when we will fear? What are common fear? Why do we think those are common fears?

We worked in teams of two! Two heads are better then one!

I am really excited to see how they turn out. Their brainstorming sketches look awesome!