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monochromatic compositions: First I have my students make a fun
collection of their favorite color using a variety of different techniques in
colored pencil, watercolor techniques using rubbing alcohol, salt, and saran
wrap, using a fan brush, and creating small collages with
their color and writing words and/or letters. Then they took all of these creations and put them into a large
composition broken up into at least 12 areas. I have them think of a focal
point in their composition to draw the viewer's eye to something in their
layout.
Here are some of the creative results...
This won an honorable mention in the Boston Globe
Scholastic Art Awards in 2010!
then we made big circle designs
go to squares
Soon we will be creating a painting on canvas in acrylic paint.
In the school year 2008-2009,
the paintings below were on display in the senior center at the community center in Cohasset
. (scroll down to
see what other things we do in 8th grade art!)
Before they created the paintings above, I have my eighth grade students practice painting
such
as the ones you see below.
It is a painting on canvas paper. We start
with a yellow shape,
then they add a little dab of red
each time to the yellow
until they get to red, then from red
they add blue until they get to blue,
then
from blue they mix a little yellow each time.
When they're done the whole
paper is full. After it dries, they use tape to do a line design
and paint
white and/or black on top. After it dries,they peel the tape off.
2) Then they do more practice paintings! ANALOGOUS PAINTINGS: choose either red, orange, yellow and white
or blue, green, yellow and white, start with a line and/or a shape in one of
their colors and can add any of the colors to it, using
the same mixing
techniques as the previous painting.
3) a MONOCHROMATIC painting: choose one color and mix white and/or black
4) MORE PRACTICE PAINTINGS: a SEASCAPE: learning to make clouds with a round sponge, lines to create water and reflections, and land, a palm tree and a sail boat are optional, and then 5) a LANDSCAPE with either a warm or cool sky, and by choice: mountains, a city, a road or river
Their FINAL PAINTING can be from a photograph or they need to sketch out a
composition and plan out
the colors before they begin.
go to clocks
go to black and white grid drawings
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Congratulations to my 3 8th grade students whose artwork below won awards in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards for 2010!
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