Square 1 Art for 3rd rotation/2nd Semester Students

Personalized catalogs will be sent home on or around 3/17/2015!!!! These make unique gifts and keepsakes.  Mother's Day is just around the corner!

Dear Family, Coming home to you soon is a school sponsored fundraiser called Square 1 Art.  This fundraiser takes your child’s artwork and makes it into great products for you to purchase. These products are wonderful keepsakes and gifts for family and friends. Your child has been busy making beautiful artwork that can be made into many fun products such as magnets, t-shirts, mouse pads, ornaments and much more! The money raised from this fundraiser will enable the school to continue its efforts in supporting our students. Your help is needed for us to continue offering these opportunities to our school. Celebrate your child’s artistic achievement! Order keepsakes to cherish for years to come! Two Easy Ways to Order Paper order form located on the back of the catalog coming home to you soon.  Your child's very own artwork and name will be printed on the front! Online at www.square1art.com/shop  Create an online art gallery using the access code located on your catalog.  Shop useful custom products that display your child's artwork! Your Order Counts Make a difference by helping us reach our fundraising goal.  Square 1 Art is a wonderful fundraiser that celebrates your child's artwork along with helping our school. Thank You A huge thank you to all of the teachers, faculty, and volunteers for their help in creating this artwork with their students.

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8th Grade Pop Art!!!

Popart is an art movement that began in the 1950’s.  It was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism (like splatter paintings of Jackson Pollock) that required the viewer to understand art and art history to appreciate the art, and a reaction to pop-culture and advertising. Artists looked to pop-culture (movie stars, music icons, comic books, etc.) and advertisements as inspiration.  They appropriated (or borrowed without permission) images from photographers, artists, and advertisers and made them their own by using original coloring (often primary colors), compositions, and changing the context. 8^th grade art students selected an image from modern day pop-culture and “Pop art-ed” it using similar techniques to Roy Lichtenstein, including Benday dots. Benday dots are dots that printers used prior to pixels. Roy Lichtenstein, a famous Pop artist, used them in his paintings to contrast artist made vs. machine made.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here is a bit of Rube Goldberg fun for your holiday viewing pleasure.  Rube Goldberg is a comic artist who is a legend for his "Rube Goldberg Machines." His machines involve a variety of silly, complicated cause-effect steps to reach an ultimate goal.  For our last pre-Thanksgiving warm-up assignment students are creating their own "Rube Goldberg Machine" style instructions/comic to invent their own original way to catch, carve, or cook their Thanksgiving dinner. http://rubegoldberg.com/

Wrapping up the first quarter...

Greetings!!

We are wrapping up the first quarter! It is hard to believe how time flies.  I enjoyed my first rotation of 7th grade students and I will miss them as they begin their new rotations on 11/5.  On this penultimate day of 7th grade art, students packed up their art projects and took them home.  Students brought home several projects: Color Wheels, Figure Value Paintings, Perspective Paintings, Clay Fantasy Animals, and Paper-cut Mola Designs.  If your child didn't have a project returned to him/her, I will send it home on Monday along with the sketchbook.  Please ask your child about their art experience!!  Here are a few of the beautiful clay projects that went home today

 

KGMS Art on display at SBO!!!

King George Middle School artwork is on display at the School Board Office during the month of October!  Check out our artists' work.

Seventh grade artwork on display at the SBO.

8th grade students made self-portraits using a grid method.  They made a patterned background to show rhythm and movement.  Inspired by the artwork of Kehinde Wiley.

7th graders made color wheels by mixing their own paint colors from just red, yellow, and blue paint and cutting shapes from the colors.  They also selected each color's complement for the detail.

Seventh graders drew a pose-able art "dummy" in three different positions that suggested movement.  They drew concentric lines around each dummy to further the idea of movement.  Then they mixed of tints (added white) to one pure hue for each rectangle of their paper. 

8th Graders who have finished their silhouettes 9/18, this is your assignment during class.

http://thevirtualinstructor.com/facialproportions.html

• Take photos of yourself/have a partner who is finished take photos of you.  
• You should have an empty wall behind you.  The photo should be an up close photo where your head and shoulders fill the picture frame.
• Read the information on this page and try to draw a human face following the steps on the webpage and in the video.

This year is off to an exciting start! 7th grade students have been painting and learning color theory; and their color wheel projects are due tomorrow. The picture is a colorful display of some of the 7th grade completed color wheels.  Students cut a shape out that could be a personal symbol or something they liked, and repeated it to create a color wheel. Students then selected the color's complement (the opposite color on the wheel) and added a detail with it.

8th grade students started the year off with clay, and are making Tiki inspired clay sculptures.  Students made a sketch of their plan for their project including an exaggerated face, different lines, and textures; and created a theme for their projects.  This student's theme was underwater, and she planned in her sketchbook.  This project is still under construction.  Students will be finishing up with the sculpting tomorrow.  The second photo is of finished projects by my first period students.

Our next project for both grade levels, will be a Square1Art project.  Square1 is a company that provides students, friends, and family the opportunity to buy products with each individual student's original artwork featured on it.  I am thrilled this rotation will have their products back before the winter holidays.  Square1 makes excellent personalized gifts!