7th Grade: How to Posterize an Portrait Image for Our Portrait Drawing Project

7th GRADE:
For our pencil grid drawing project.

PLEASE NOTE: I did this tutorial on a Mac. Our versions of Microsoft Word at Wheeler are different, so everything is in a slightly different place. However, I am confident that you will be able to figure it all out!!

Please print to 115 (art room) or 117 (MS Computer Lab, the key to which hangs by the front door of the art room).

Faux Stained Glass

This is the first year I am doing an art history class here at Wheeler (and here's the awesome website I created for the course). It's a great class because it's a unique group: those who like art AND like talking about history. We do a lot of looking at and discussion images and events from history, creating art in the style of the movement we're studying, and.... cooking up feasts that relate to our topic of study. It's fun!

The first time period/movement we studied was medieval art in Europe (specifically Italy). Besides doing a presentation on a medieval artist of their choice, students were also required to complete an art project. Because stained glass was such a prolific art form in the middle ages, we decided to create faux stained glass pieces using a product called Gallery Glass. Below you can see the process, products, and pictures from our medieval feast day.

And in case you are interested in what we cooked.... Here is the recipe for medieval waffres, or "waffles"... except, they're made with about a billion eggs, ginger, and... cheese. But with chocolate chips, syrup, and whipped cream, they were pretty good!

Working on a beautiful representation of "hamsa," a sign of protection. 

Working on a composition featuring the Italian flag, theater curtains, and a family dinner table. 

Creating his perfect golf course. 

Making that perfect, relaxing, island paradise. 

Mountainous landscape!

This composition features a hand holding a pomegranate and musical bar featuring the seeds of the pomegranate as musical notes. 

Almost done!

About to start cooking!

Grating cheese for our... waffles!

Yum!

He ate all of our leftovers like a champ!

YUMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Clay!

This semester we've been doing a lot of clay at both the middle and high school levels. Below you can find a lot of examples! I will write the grade and/or project under the picture. Enjoy!

 



8th grade birdhouse

7th grade fairy house

8th grade coil pot

 

8th grade luminary

 

High school cup (focus: texture)

High school ceramic sculpture (theme: good and evil)

 

8th grade bird house

8th grade luminary

High school bowl

8th grade mug

8th grade fairy house

 

8th grade ceramic sculpture

High school mug (theme: good and evil)

7th grade turtle bowl

High school bowl (theme: good and evil)

High school bowl (theme: good and evil)

High school honeypot bowl (theme: good and evil)

High school jug

8th grade hand sculpture

High school mug

7th grade mug (focus: texture)

High school bowl (theme: good and evil)

8th grade hands

 

8th grade cup (focus: texture)

 

Ink Blowing!

Every other Friday, the high school art classes are treated with "Fun Friday." Fun Friday introduces art students to new and interesting mediums that they might not be exposed to otherwise. For this Fun Friday, we experimented with ink blowing and watercolors. The students' art turned out to be very complex, colorful, and Kandinsky-esque. I've put and example of a Kandinsky painting at the end of this post (he was a famous Russian abstract painter).

And here's a work by Kandinsky (see some similarities?):