Dec 17th

Continuing with our robots and the next step.

Dec. 15th-16th

Learning about Analogous and Complimentary color schemes. We will then design our own  robot and paint him in your choice of color scheme.

Dec 12th

Finishing our color wheel and discussing the modern primary colors of CMY-K.

Dec 11th

Intro to color and painting!

Dec 5th

For todays warm up we will draw a shape of a piece of popcorn and turn it into a character. I like the

2pt perspectives I am seeing!

Dec 4th

Our daily artist skews the proportion scaling, and at a certain perspective you can see the amazing 3D drawing!

Dec 3rd

Todays Warm Up.

For those needing a challenge...

Dec. 2nd

Continuing

Nice letter practice today!

Dec. 1st

Welcome back!

3rd period will walk through the steps to both assignments, they will have the option to pick which one they feel more confident in.

7th period will begin an intro into 2pt perspective (the majority of this will be done over the document camera). Nice 1 pt perspective!

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Nov 21st

Continuing on with 2pt perspective

Nov. 20th

Finishing up our cities, and then taking a look at 2 point perspective.

Nov. 19th

Per. 3- Continuing with our city.

Nov. 17th

An introduction to 1pt perspective.

Nov. 14th

Our last day to finish our mandalas.

If you are behind come in for Saturday School!

Great Job guys!

Nov 13th

If there is school today we will continue with the project at hand.

Nov. 12th

Finishing up our mandalas.

Nov 10th

Continuing with our mandalas.

Nov. 7th

Continuing with our mandala's.

If you are behind come in on Saturday for Saturday school. My classroom will be open from 9am-12:30. Breakfast and lunch is provided. Let me know if you want to be signed up! Catch up on grades!

Nov. 6th

Continuing with our mandalas.

Nov 4th-5th

For the most part our pie piece is finished, lets begin creating our mandala (remember, organic and geometric).

Nov 3rd

Lets turn in our realistic/abstract face project and begin our Mandala's.

Oct 28th

Abstract side!

Oct 27th

I hope you had a great weekend, lets start on our abstract side!

My class example done step by step over the doc camera:

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Oct 24th

Lets jump back in! Google is experiencing some technical difficulty, so unfortunately I cannot post the slides yet...stay tuned

Oct 23rd

Lets get back to that face!

Oct 22nd

With proportions under our belt, lets begin creating our half/portrait!

Oct 21st

We will finish up our mug value studies and jump into accurate face proportion.

Oct 20th

Friday we worked on contour lines, today we will learn about value and apply it to our drawings.

Oct 17th

Yesterday went fabulously! Great job with the contour lines so far, lets slow down our pace a bit more so we can really draw what we see!

Oct 16th

Today we will begin an introduction to contour line, if we have time we will try blind contour drawing.

Oct 14th

Welcome back! For the new six week grading period we will be changing seats and finishing up our Romare Bearden inspired collage.

Oct 9th

No warm up today, lets get in there and finish those collages! I love what I am seeing!

Oct 8th

Looking at another daily artist! Continuing with our project at hand!

Oct 7th

Check out your updated grades! The end of the six weeks is near! We will continue with our project at hand.

Oct 6th

We will be continuing with our Romare Bearden inspired collage.

Begin gluing if you have more than 50% of your pieces.

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Oct 3rd

Lets draw the shape of the objects at our tables. If we can do this silently for three minutes I will share a snack. Today we are back to our Romare Bearden inspired project.

Oct 2nd

Back into the Bearden Collage!

Oct. 1st

I had so much fun on our mini project yesterday, lets jump in and begin the Romare Beardon inspired collage.

Great job today!

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Sep 30th

Lets dive into something new!

Sep 29th

Last day to work on illuminated letter, today's warm up will help up stay organized in the next project.

Sep 26th

Another in class work session, with a fun math/science artist for today!

Sep 25th

Another awesome daily artist!

Sep 24th

Take a look at today's artist, there are careers in text/graphic design! Today I will demonstrate craftsmanship over the document camera when applying colored pencil.

Sep 23rd

My hope is that everyone is beginning to work on the final paper!

Sep 22nd

We will be finishing up our worksheet and beginning on illuminated letter on the final sheet.

Sep 19th

Today we will dive into our chosen letter, and begin creating interesting/creative compositions.

Sep 18th

As promised, the first 20 minutes of class will be dedicated to finishing our grid project. After we will jump in to a brief history of illuminated manuscripts. Don't stress, we will discuss these all week, today is a brief introduction.

Sep 18th

The first chunk of class is dedicated to finishing up our Grid drawings, then we will take a quick look at illuminated manuscripts to get a rough idea on the next project. Don't worry, we will go in depth in the next few days, regarding project details and more on illuminated manuscripts.

Sep 17th

Take a look at our warm up today, do you see a grid? What's different? Today we will go over the final steps to the project at hand over the document camera.

Sep 16th

We found all the black shapes, now we are on to the final paper! All instructions will be done via document camera. Check your grades, I am missing a lot of syllabi!

Sep 15th

Last week you all did an excellent job with our grid practice! Now we will apply our practice to the image we selected on Friday. Over the document camera I will go through the steps!

Sep 12th

After reviewing your wonderful black and white line drawings, I see that we are ready to move on to a different project. I am excited because we will be learning about gridding, and how it can help us improve our drawing skills.

Sep 11th

Today we will finish up our mini project of varying lines, if there is enough time we will go over pattern and jump into our big line/pattern project. We will spend multiple days on this project, so take your time, best quality work!

Sep 10th

As promised, the first ten minutes of class are dedicated for those who needed a little extra time on the positive and negative shape project. If you are still not finished it is now homework. Today we will begin our introduction into line, and begin a mini project.

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Sep 9th

A lot of you are near completion! Lets spend the rest of today finishing our positive and negative shape project. Remember, craftsmanship counts towards your grade, so take your time! If you are finished I have a worksheet you may begin which plays into our next project!

Don't forget to turn in your syllabi!

I am liking what I am seeing!

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Sep 8th

Today we will be diving into our positive and negative shape project. Our syllabus will be handed out in class today. For those who can bring it back signed by tomorrow, you will receive 5pts extra credit.


My class example:

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Sep 5th

Today we start are very first assignment! We will be creating a pair of shapes, which will feed into our positive and negative assignment! Lets start!

Sep 4th

Lets re-cap for the new students in class. Today we will be finishing our sketchbooks!

Sep 3rd

Welcome class! Today we will begin our pre-test, following, we will discuss class rules and expectations. If there is enough time we will jump into our sketchbook creations.

Sep. 2nd

Welcome Freshman! Today we will go over school wide expectations, as well as get to know each other!