First Project: Secret Messages

For our first project in middle school art this year, everyone created an abstracted "secret message." Students chose a message, idiom, or quote they thought represented themselves in a positive light. Students then wrote the message in all capitals, and using markers, filled in the spaces in and around the letters. This created a kind of flat and abstract painting. Many people didn't even realize the works of art contained words (which means our messages truly are "secret!"). Take a look!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marbling: Round Two (AKA The Second Best Day Ever)

This semester, we were lucky enough to get the lovely and talented Ms. Molly Charest to visit us yet again. She took time out of her busy schedule, drove down from Portland, and taught a new group of students how to marble paper. If you're curious about the process, please refer to our previous marbling post, which you can find here. Otherwise, enjoy these awesome photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hanging up our finished work in the cafeteria!

 

Three Dimentional Art Projects

For our high school Introduction to 3D Art class, students were to create a three dimensional work of art of their choosing. This meant that we ended up with all kind of crazy cool art projects. Here are some of the best.

Popsicle stick car (side view).

Front view. 

Book art! Paper castle made out of a book about castles!

Top view.

 

Amazing Eiffel Tower made out of perfectly cut and glued dowels.

This student worked endlessly on this project. She was incredibly focused and dedicated.

Opposite view.

Wire Portraits

Following a contour drawing project, and preceding a 3D wire project, students were to make wire portraits. They began by looking in a mirror and drawing their face using only one (contour) line. Later, they stapled wire to the contour pencil lines. This project familiarizes students with the medium of wire, and prepares them to think in 3D. And the results were quite good!

 



 

 

Not made from one line, but still an awesome portrait.

Again, not made from one line, but still very effective.

 

This student chose to do an owl.