Monday, May 21, 2012

Embroidered Quotes

*Studio Drawing and Painting*

Plan: Students will embroider a quote using at least 3 different sewing stitches on felt. Paint is optional.

Mobiles

*Art One*

Students created mobiles using wire, paper mâché, tissue paper, and cardboard. We viewed two separate image slideshow of mobiles I found on Pinterest.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Still Life Relief

*Studio Drawing and Painting*

Aluminum Foil Relief: Movement, Repetition, and Variety

*Art One*

Analagous Precisionist Paintings on Canvas

*Studio Drawing and Painting"

After discussing what was happening in the US during the 1920's and talking about the Precionist style of painting, students combined images from two image packets showing architecture and architecture details on a canvas. They use two neighboring colors on the color wheel, white acrylic tinted with watercolor, and show gradients in the shapes.

Illusion of Depth Collage with Magazines and Oil Pastels

*Art One*

Students created collages showing 3-5 figures in an interior space. They will use the six illusion of depth "tricks".

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Illusion of Depth Landscape

*Art One*

Students used overlapping, space, converging lines, placement, detail, and color to create the illusion  of depth in a surreal landscape. Materials? Tempera, collage, charcoal, colored pencil...on brown paper bag!