7th & 8th Grade - Chinese Dragon Clay Sculptures

"We started this thing together and that’s how we’ll finish it. I promise."- Mushu from Disney’s Mulan

7th & 8th graders learned about the history of China, their beliefs as well as studied their artwork. We discussed the element of form, types of sculpture and basic hand-building clay techniques. This was our first year working with new ceramic tools and the results are incredible! Check out our clay Chinese dragons!

5th & 6th Grade - Dragon Eyes

Texture, value, form and chalk pastel techniques all rolled into one! Well done artists!

7th & 8th Grade - Texture Animals

7th and 8th graders did an outstanding job with their texture projects! With this project, we learned techniques on how to use oil pastels. It’s not just coloring like you would with your everyday Crayola crayon. Using blending and layering of their oil pastels, students were able to create realistic implied textures. Then, we created actual texture by embossing aluminum foil and staining the metal to bring out the texture lines.

5th & 6th Grade - Value Shading Ghosts

This lesson introduced to students shading in shadows, created by a light source. We discussed the effects of light on an object such as where light is hitting will be a lighter and where the light is not touching, is darker.

Goals

• Understand the elements of form and value.
• Learn how to use different values to draw a realistic ghost form on a 2D surface.

Elements and Principles: Line, Shape, Form, Value, Contrast, Space

5th & 6th Grade - Japanese Notan Design

Students used the techniques of traditional Japanese Notan art to create their own Notan design showing positive and negative space. Students drew an original design (organic, geometric or combination), cut out each shape and flipped the paper to the outside creating a symmetrically balanced, positive and negative image. 

Goals:

• Understand the elements of art: space and shape
• Learn the difference between positive and negative space.
• Identify the difference between organic and geometric shapes.
• Learn how to create organic Notan designs, geometric Notan designs, and a combination of organic + geometric Notan designs.
• Create a Notan.

Elements and Principles: Line, Shape, Space, Balance, Contrast

Check out these results!