Sketchbook Skills

Before handing back your sketchbooks, I discovered some amazing sketchbook skills. Amongst the best were Janeia in 6th grade with the portrait below. Mark in 4th grade does numerous sketches at home, good work!! Remember click on image for close-up.

Portrait by Janeia...All artwork below by Mark

Draw Your own Cartoon Face

Triniti, now you will have something new to comment about for sure ;-)
Artwork by Gabrieal
Artwork by Ellusion
Artwork by Janeia, Joseph, Triniti and Lorraine

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/cartooning/ss/drawcartoonfaces.htm

Fernwood's Metra Safety Posters

Metra Safety Posters are due this weekend. Congratulations to those students who completed their posters after school today!

Artwork by Robert

Artwork by Janeia

Artwork by Letasha

Artwork by Makayl

Artwork by Kenya

Artwork by Chante

Artwork by Kiara L

Artwork by Silvia

We Value Obama

The students who finished with their Picasso Value Study, did the same thing but with a picture of Obama. With teamwork, we made some really cool looking Obama portraits. We also talked about the other definitions of "value".

Artwork by Demetrius, Unique, Tatianna, and Shanice
Artwork by Jazmyne

Artwork by Janeia, Lavonte, Heaven, Darneisha, Talaiyah

Free Paint, No Restraint

The art club students were given a chance to paint whatever their creative minds came up with.
Artwork by Janeia
Artwork by Joseph
Artwork by Breanna
Artwork by Kennedie

Artwork by Jermaine shown above
Jermaine's painting reminded me a little of Jackson Pollock, a famous artist who liked to splatter paint.

Artwork by Jackson Pollock

Cookie Cutter Clay Ornaments

The lower graders got their hands messy making their clay ornaments. They mixed 2 cups of flour, with one cup salt and one cup water, and ta-da, they made clay. You probably have the ingredients in your cupboard right now.
It is easy! After you make the clay, pat it down flat and use a cookie cutter to make the shape. Use a straw to point a hole at the top. Set aside to dry for a week.
Artwork by Aniyah
Artwork by Damari
Artwork by Akilah and Janeia (Art Club students also made clay- Akilah used a fork on her gingerbread man and Janeia decided not to use the cookie cutters and sculpted the thumbs up, reindeer and that little bow!)
Makayla made great texture on her ornaments! (texture= look and feel of the fork markings)

Next paint and add fun stuff.

Set aside to dry for a day.
Two on the Left by De'yannah, Kiara did the bell and Chyna did the bear, nice work!
Artwork by Tatianna

Finally, add a ribbon to hang your ornament.
Artwork by Asjah
Artwork by Aniya- scroll up to see what Aniya's ornaments looked before being painted.

Art Club gets crafty :-o

Art Club designed boxes using paint and markers. Afterward, they decorated with accessories, and you can see…some students went gaga with glitter glue and gems! The boxes are great gifts for the upcoming season, but can they part with their boxes? ;-)
Janeia did a mermaid on her box.

Congradulations to First Quarter Art Stars :-)

Everyone has amazed me with your creativity but some students have showed extra effort in following the rules and trying their best on their artwork. So, thank you to all the students who earned being Art Star for the First Marking Period.

The First Quarter Art Stars are as follows:
Room 101: Tiana, Room 402: Aaliyah, Room 403: Stephen, Room 202: Kanye, Room207: Mia, Room 201: Marquis, Room 206: Timothy, Room 208: Jermaine, Room 106: Demarlo, Room108: Akilah, Room302: Gregory, Room301: Janeia, Room307: Heaven, Room 306: Demesha, Room 308: Dominique

I want to give a special thanks to Janeia who earned the #1 Art Star for the 1st Quarter. As you have probably noticed, she has worked above and beyond on all her art projects. She has also had perfect attendance to Art Club! Below is the color wheel she did in preparation for her Madame Matisse and her radial name design.

Escher Refresher

Self-portrait by Escher

Complex tessellation by Escher

Last Month the 4th-6th graders studied tessellations and M.C. Escher. Escher is famous for his creative tessellations.
Below you will see that Triniti puzzled together a house, and Janeia found an elephant in her tessellation.
Artwork by Janeia

Artwork by Triniti: Thank you for finishing it up at home!

Meet Matisse

Art Club practiced mixing their primary colors and made a color wheel. Using the six colors from their color wheel, they did their own version of Matisse's Madame, also called the "Green Line".
"Green Line" by Matisse
Color Wheel by Janeia
Artwork by Joseph
Artwork by Janeia
Artwork by Sanbonnice
The eighth grade is also studying Matisse, but they studied his famous cutouts. They used primary colors, figures, and again positive/negative space!
Matisse
Artwork by Terron
Artwork by Channa
Artwork by Malik and Bobby
Artist unknown...they did a great job, but they forgot the most important step, step #1= WRITE YOUR NAME