Self-portraits and Surrealism

This week the seniors will be creating self-portraits.  Students will use a chart to help with proportion and look at portraits by famous artists to inspire their expressions.

The freshman will be creating Surrealist drawings inspired by artists who created art about their dreams, and put random subconscious images together.  Students will consider the "non-sequitur" in their artwork.

Spring Cabaret Posters

Students will create a work of art for the Copeland Cafeteria for the Spring Cabaret.  Students will make a statement to inspire healthy choices in diet and life-style.  Students will look at various art styles and create a poster size work of art in their own personal style using images of food and flowers.

Questions to consider:
What is healthy to eat?
What is beautiful to look at?  What do you focus on as you walk down the street or look out a window?
What are positive things to think about?
How can you reduce stress in your life?
What are positive choices you can make?

Tessellation

This week students will be creating tile patterns using geometric shapes.  We will take shapes and use rotation and repetition to create a tessellated pattern.  Students will use color and creativity to create artwork based on the principle of tessellation with no gaps or overlaps.

Final Projects for Marking Period 3

Seniors will be designing a building or a room and drawing it in either one or two point perspective.  Students can use their notes from last week to help them remember the techniques.

Freshmen will be creating watercolor paintings of a still life using watercolor.  The color study of last week will inform color mixing and painting techniques.

Outside of class students will observe how color is used in our society to communicate, express or decorate.

Perspective and Color

The week of 3/21 the seniors will be studying perspective.  Students will be able to draw a room in one-point perspective and draw a simple building in two-point perspective.  Students will follow a demonstration using rulers, pencils and graph paper.  Students will work on their own independent perspective drawings as a final project for marking period three.  As homework, students will observe perspective in real life and imagine how they would draw what they see.

The week of 3/21 the freshmen will be studying color.  Students will paint a color wheel and identify primary, secondary, warm and cool colors.  Students create 4 practice paintings using watercolor in primary, secondary, warm or cool colors and one as they wish.

Objective This Week

For our current project, we looked at the works of contemporary graffiti style artists Banksy, Shepherd Fairy, Cope2 and BLU.  We will consider art created to communicate a message and create our own message art projects.