Monday, March 28, 2011

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.

Monday, March 21, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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.