Texture Dragons

Texture Dragons

These 6th grade dragons were an easy and fun three day project! All students finished and were sucessful creating their work of art!

The students began the project drawing a dragon. The students used their imagination to come up with their unique dragon design.

Next the student used texture plates and crayons to fill the dragon with different textures. I required the students to have a minimum of four different textures inside of the dragon.

The students then outlines the dragon in sharpie and cut the dragon out.

The finished project resulted in the dragon glued onto colored construction paper as seen below.

 

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Art Show

Please join us for:

May 20th 2014

Fegely's End of the Year

Art Show

5:30-6:30

Takes place in the Fegely

Middle School Lobby

Students and Parents are

invited to attend!

Cake and refreshments

will be served!

 

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Fall into Art

Fall into Art

7th and 8th graders created fall inspired works of art

8th graders drew from a fall inspired still-life. The students then painted the still-life using liquid water colors. The students were instructed to paint with lots of color, creating many values in their paintings. Once completed with the painting g process the students used a sharpie to outline the multiple values found in the painting.

7th grade completed a similar project using a variety of leaves as their study.

 

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Value Self Portraits

8th grade iPad Value Self-Portraits

For this iPad project students used the app ArtStudio. To begin the lesson the students took a photo of themselves using the iPad camera.

They then imported the photo into to app.

File-import-from camera roll

Using their background knowledge of the element of art, value. The students painted over their existing photo to create a painting of themself.

Once completed the original picture layer was removed.

 

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Texture Birds

8th grade Texture Birds

While studying the element of art, texture, the 8th grade artists created texture birds using chalk and oil pastels. The students sketched and drew birds from reference folders provided for their tables.

For 8th graders chalk pastels can sometimes be a challenging medium to master; however, the students succeeded with flying colors!

 

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6th grade Action Color Wheels

6th grade Action Color Wheels

To complete this lesson students used an action figure found in a magazine. The student then cut the figure out, using skilled craftsmanship and traced the figure 12 times on to white paper. They then used tempra paint to paint the figures. The figures were then overlapped and glued to black paper.

 

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8th grade 2 point perspective / surreal cityscape

8th grade 2 Point Perspective / Sureal Cityscape

The 8th grade artists created Surreal Cityscapes using 2 point perspective. The students used their knowledge of one point perspective from their 7 grade class to build the artwork.

Requirements:

• minimum of 4 buildings
• 2 Windows and 1 door on each building
• 1 surreal element to the artwork
• Hatching and cross hatching

 

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7th grade 1 Point Perspective

7th Grade 1 Point Perspective (Birds Eye View)

7th grade students learned about 1 point perspective creating a birds eye view of a city. To begin the project the 7th graders competed a sketch, using ideas from a reference folder that I provided for them. The students were required to show that all buildings were converging to one vanishing point. The buildings were given windows, doors and details to complete the artwork. All student artwork was colored using colored pencil.

 

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6th grade Newsweek Hero Project

6th grade Newsweek Hero Project

I adapted this lesson from a workshop I attended. Tricia Fugelstad led the workshop. Her website offers a wealth of information and great ideas. Please check out her blog to get great ideas for using iPads/ technology in your classroom.

http://drydenart.weebly.com/creating-on-ipads.html

Fegely Heroes

We began with brainstorming a list of characteristics that super heroes and real- life heroes posses. We used the worksheet below; however, just writing on the board will also work.

We then used the template to plan our design. Students submitted their plan/ rough draft to me before beginning, this way I could check for grammatical errors, spelling and complete sentences.

To create this project we used our classroom set of iPads and the apps: Dropbox, ArtStudio, and PicCollage. This was a lot of work for my 6th grade students, especially for our first iPad projectof the school year. The excitement of the 6th grade got us through the project relatively fast. We were able to complete this project in 5 days.

To make it easier down the road I took all of my students pictures in front of our class made green screen (a picked a really bright green shower curtain) this way it was not so expensive and a color most students wouldn't wear. The students selected some super hero costumes, clothing, masks, capes, ect. to wear for their photograph.

To begin I uploaded the student photo and the template below into our classdropbox. This allowed all students access to materials.

The students began by importing their photo into the app ArtStudio. Using the lasso tool the students deleated all of the green screen from their background. They needed to do this without cutting off any of their body parts.

The students then exported their projects from ArtStudio and saved them to the camera roll.
The next app we worked in was PicCollage. PicCollage allows the student to layer the Newsweek template, their picture, and their words onto the page.
Upon completion the students submitted and saved their finished project to DropBox.

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Texture Discovery

7th Grade Texture Discovery

The Fegely 7th graders explored the elementsof art texture. The students were introduced to texture through the use of a PowerPoint presentation with guided notes.

To hook the students into the lesson we conducted a texture discovery.

Before the students arrived, I placed 20 paper bags around the classroom with different textured objects in each bag.

The students were paired up into groups of two and were given a teacher made worksheet. The worksheet asks the students to describe the way the object feels and also to guess what they believe the object is inside of the bag without looking at the object.

texture video from paige hart on Vimeo.

 

 

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