2.9.10

Wondering what is currently happening in the Art Room? Here's an update. For the first time this week We've provided student examples of work. Curious if its your students work? Call and ask!

Fashion Design:
This week in Fashion our models get hands! Students are learning how to draw hands based on basic shapes which will inevitably create more proportionate hands on their models.
Crafting for Etsy:
In Crafting for Etsy, student's learned how to decoupage this week! Each student was given a packet of recycled paper materials to use in their projects. Tomorrow, students will learn all about card making and creating their own stationary!


Painting:
Painting students are continuing their work on color theory and understanding color mixing. Eventually students will complete a 4-rectangle painting using oil pastel, acrylic paint, oil paint, and watercolor paints with each rectangle a different medium. The painting they do is a copy of a master artwork. Below is a students work from last semester.

Graphic Design:
Students continue to work on their business cards. Below is one student's in progress work on the front of her business card. The second image is another student's work on the backside of his business card. Students are also required to create a hard-copy of their business card on paper.


Drawing:
Students are continuing their work on color theory and understanding color mixing. This will continue for at least another week.


3D/Sculpture:
Right now, students are beginning work on sculptures using clear plastic CD dividers. Students are required to use at least 50 CD's, and no more than 100. To teach our students that art projects can be made from many different materials this project was developed out of many boxes of CD's that were donated to the art room.

Ceramics:
In ceramics, students are continuing learning the basics of hand-building. They are each creating a mug that they will glaze to complete. Two student's examples are pictured below before glazing.

Semester Under Way

Fashion Design-
We are beginning with learning the proportions for drawing fashion models. Typically we draw humans in "8-head" proportion, but in fashion models are drawn in "9-head" proportion.


Crafting for Etsy:
In this class students are beginning to learn many different types of crafting, jewelry making, embroidery, and photography. These first few weeks are devoted to learning jewelry including beaded earrings and necklaces.


Painting-
Color theory is the name of the game! Students are learning all about the color wheel, tint, tone and shade, and how to mix every color in the world.


Graphic Design-
First up, students are creating business cards. These will be used as our measuring point to assess their progress at the end of the semester when they will create another one.


Drawing-
In drawing students are learning the elements of art including line, value, shade, shape, form, color and texture.


3D-
Students are beginning by creating self-portraits in a very roundabout way. Students first create a line drawing self-portrait, and then trace over those lines with wire to create the self-portrait with wire.


Ceramics-
Pinch pots are the jumping off point for students in this class. Pinch pots are made by beginning with a ball of clay, and using your fingers to work the clay away from center to create bowls, mugs and dishes.

Welcome to Spring Semester

Students, Staff and Families - Spring Semester begins soon which brings all new classes to the Art Room! With the addition of a new staff (Welcome Stacey!) we are able to bring more specific classes which are developed to attract and challenge students farther and introduce them to new art methods they may not have used before. Our new classes will be....

Crafting for Etsy-
Etsy is a website for Artist's to sell their works of art anywhere in the world. Products for sale range from jewelry and knittings to paintings and photography. Kristin and Ashley will spend the first half of the class teaching students about different types of art they can create to post on Etsy. The second half of class students will photograph, market and post their work for sale. The hope is that students will walk away from this class with the knowledge and expertise of how to run their own Etsy webpage after the class is over.


Fashion Design-
This class, taught by Kristin and Ashley will teach students the basics of designing clothes from concept to finished garment. Students will learn how to draw models in Fashion proportions, draw and design a line of clothing, create and cut patterns and sew a completed garment.


3D/Sculpture-
Stacey, Emily and Ashley will be teaching this class and focusing on sculptures that can be made out of any material. Some materials that may be used include clay, cardboard, paper mache, recycled materials...etc.


Ceramics-
This class will focus solely on clay work and will range from coil and slab building to hand building and potter's wheel work. Again this will be taught by Stacey and Emily and students will walk away with all of the basics of working with clay


Graphic Design-
Magazines, business cards, advertisements, cereal boxes, billboards... all are examples of works of Graphic Design. Ashley and Stacey will work with students in this class to learn the essential knowledge of Graphic Design which includes Color Theory, Composition, and text to name a few.


Painting-
Much like fall semester, Kristin and Emily will work through this class to teach students about many different types of painting. Projects will range from watercolor painting, to acrylic to oil while allowing students to figure out which medium they prefer to work with the most. Students will also learn about important historical landmarks in the world of painting including cubism and surrealism.


Drawing-
Students in this class will learn various drawing techniques demonstrated by Kristin and Stacey and will work with colored pencils, pastels, graphite and of course regular drawing pencils.




The teachers of the art department are very excited for our upcoming classes and we hope this excitement will filter into our students as well. Stay tuned to begin learning about projects in each individual class!

-Kristin, Emily, Stacey and Ashley

Current Projects

Curious what your student is doing right now in Art?! Take a look below!! (Each class currently has an image posted to help explain the project. No actual student work is posted yet.)

Painting: Just finished a unit on Color Theory and moving into experimenting with all different types of paint. Their project is currently to create a reproduction of a master work of art by splitting it into fourths and painting each fourth with a different type of paint (watercolor, acrylic, oil and gouche). Student work coming soon!


Drawing/2D: Students are currently working on grid drawings. They created a collage with different elements in it (human face, animal, achitecture...) and using a grid have to transfer the collage square by square into a drawing twice the size of the original collage. Student work coming soon!


Video: We are learning Final Cut Pro Software bit by bit and are working on improvisational techniques.


3D: In 3D we are working on examining Abstract sculpture and how a sculpture can have meaning when it looks like nothing realistic. Students created a wire sculpture and are painting it to tie the color scheme and sculpture together for a common theme. Student work coming soon!


FUNdamentals in Art: This class is all about students learning the basics of art and touching on as many mediums as possible. They just finished work on color theory and are moving into watercolor. First they will learn many different techniques they can use when painting watercolor and will then use those techniques to create a silhouette cityscape using their watercolors. Student work coming soon!


Art Around the World: Mexico is the topic at hand! We have just fininshed working on Amate paintings which are made from recycled tree bark and are painted with very bright colors. Students created ASAP (Actual Simulation Amate Paper!) and made their own paintings involving birds, fish, flowers and other items. Next we will be examining Day of the Dead in Mexico and the traditions that go along with celebrating the dead. Student work coming soon!

Welcome!

Welcome friends, families, staff and passerbys!

This is the official blog of the Grove School Art Department. We the teachers of the Grove Art Department will be running this blog, posting, updating, and doing our best to keep you informed of what we're up to.

Our goal with this blog is to give everyone a glimpse of what their child, sibling, friend, nephew...etc is doing in the art room while they're at Grove. We plan to provide you with a short blurb about each project in each class as well as student examples of work from time to time. No student's names will be used for privacy, however, we will alert students when their work is online so they can call home and say "Check out the website Mom and Dad! My artwork is up this week!"

Please feel free to log on here whenever you get a free moment to check our what is going on in the art room. As well, please feel free to comment on posts and let us know what you think of what we're doing!

Enjoy!
The Art Teachers: Kristin, Emily, and Ashley