May 10th

Finals

May 28th

Continuing with the mandala

May 27th

Today we will watch a short video on Tibetan sand art, followed by a class discussion; why destroy your art?!

May 26th

Wonderful job with the non-objective silhouettes! Lets learn about mandalas and angles of rotation.

May 18th

Lets continue blending those colored pencils!

May 13th-continuing

Practicing blending watercolor pencils today, and following the next steps to the project over the document camera.

May 12th

Following the next steps to the assignment.

May 11th

Lets begin practicing non-objective drawing.

May 7th-continuing

Finishing up!

May 6th

Lets begin color penciling our projects!

Take a look at this cityscape artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJbApZ5GF0

May 4th- May 5th

Now that we have drawn our letters accurately, lets make them 3D by connecting orthagonals to the opposite vanishing point.

April 31st

Continuing with our letters, look at this awesome artist!

April 30th

Today's warm up.

April 29th

Nice job with the 2pt city practice, lets finish up our 2pt letters and then you get to decide which project you would like to complete.

April 28th

Practicing with letters and buildings in 2pt perspective today.

April 23rd

Continuing with our cities and then off to 2pt perspective.

April 22nd

Starting our 1pt perspective city drawing.

April 21st

Today we begin learning about 1pt perspective.

April 20th

Finishing up our mixing challenge!

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Nice job guys!

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April 17th

Continuing with painting challenge!

April 16th

Continuing with our abstract color challenge!

April 14th

Continuing with our color wheels, if there is enough time I will walk through the CMYK color schemes.

April 13

Wonderful job on the faces! Lets talk about color!

April 10th

Happy Friday, boy this week went by fast! Lets finish up our faces, for those who do not finish today you will need to take this home over the weekend to finish!

April 8th

Today we are going to try bell to bell working, as well as switching seats.

April 7th

Lets continue with our abstract side, and take a look at a famous artist who is known for her self portraits.

April 3rd

Its already Friday! Crazy! Great job with the proportionate side guys! Lets start on our abstract side.

April 1st

Continuing with our contour line drawings of our face!

March 31st

Now that we have talked about proportion, lets look at a Tim Burton character and discuss whats wrong with his proportions. Today we will begin the face project.

March 30th

Welcome back, I hope your spring break was fabulous! Lets continue with our drawings, and start creating an accurate face.

March 18th

Great job with the contours yesterday! I was really impressed! Today lets do one more practice with contour line, and then lets learn about value, and how we can apply this to our mug or ribbon.

March 17th

If you did not get your Romare Bearden collage finished, you can take it home, or finish it over spring break!

Lets move on to an introduction of contour line drawings.

March 16th

Last in class day to finish those collages. I know a lot of you have been absent, so this means you can come in before or after school or take this project home with you over spring break.

March 13th

I'm glad to be back! I hope flu season is over! Lets finish up those collages!

March 10th

Recently we have looked at early 20th century collage artists, lets look at someone a little more recent!

March 9th

I hope your three day weekend was fabulous! Lets continue with the project at hand!

March 5th

Collage, collage, collage!

March 4th

Nice start guys! Lets keep looking for the right colors for our Romare inspired collage.

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March 3rd

Continuing with Romare...

March 2nd

Wonderful job with the mini collage project, I think you guys had too much fun!! Lets jump in to the assignment.

Feb 27th

Lets dive into something new!

Feb 26th

Final day to finish illuminated letter.

Feb 25th

Wonderful work so far! If the majority of the students are done today, we will move onto another project tomorrow.

Feb 24th

Lets take a look at another text artist, is her work ornate?

Feb 23rd

Another awesome daily artist today!

Feb 20th

My hope is that all students will be on the final paper today, I will demonstrate craftsmanship under the document camera.

Feb 19th

Lets turn in those worksheets and begin on the final paper!

Feb 18th

Today we will be starting on the final paper!

Feb 17th

Continuing with our letter worksheet

Feb 12th-13th

Today we will finish up our Grid drawing, if there is time, some students will begin creating ornate letters.

Feb 11th

Continuing with our grid project!

Feb 10th

Looking at how the same artist uses grids differently!

Feb 9th

Great job with the lines! Today we will learn about grids and their application, and choose an image that best suits of level of difficulty.

Feb 6th

Finishing our expressive line, if there is time, we will begin our grid practice.

Feb 5th

Continuing with our mini expressive line project.

Feb 4th

Today I will give 20 minutes to those who need to finish their positive and negative shape project, the rest may begin their expressive line project.

Feb 3rd

Continuing with our project and looking over the syllabus.

Feb 2nd

We will re-cap our first assignment, and go over requirements for this project.

Finished Examples:



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Jan 29th

We will finish up our sketchbook covers and dive into our first project.

Jan 28th

Continuing with our sketchbooks

Jan 27th

Welcome! Today we will take a quick test, so that the teacher knows what we need to cover. After we will begin creating our sketchbook covers.

Finals

Finals

Jan 14th

Final Project

Vans Contest Extra Credit

Jan 13th

Back to our final project.

Great job guys!

Jan 12th

beginning our final project.

Jan. 9th

Our last in class day for painting, many of you are finished, come on up for the last project explanation.

Wonderful robots!

Jan 7th

Everyone should be painting!

Jan 6th

Continuing on...

January 5th

Welcome back! Lets get back into our robot painting project!