Kara Walker Take Two

 Crystal, Lashere and Jamerah kicked off the Kara Walker project by taking the pictures, getting the bulletin board paper, uploading/choosing pictures, tracing, cutting out, hanging!!  I was really impressed.  They were so independent that I think they could this project without my help. 

Two years ago, we did 8th grade silhouettes.  This year we took pictures of students from every grade including teachers and panthers.
Below is Shaniaya, Jaron and Crystal is one singingand

 Below is 1st graders Letina and Kristen

 Below are many silhouettes including Mr. Brame, Triniti, Lorraine, Zyshon

Below is a panther darting out the door

Below is Contrail, Lashamere, and others

The figures make "2012" The 8th Graders made this by lying on the floor, I was impressed!   


April is making half the number 2 below

Kenya and Allonte make a zero

Iyana and Darneisha make a zero as well

below are silhouettes making an eye...the music notes are the eye lashes, heart pupil, the baloon is the hair, can you see it?  This was originally by chance but the students worked with it after Kenya saw an eye.

Hands of Diversity

While learning how to overlap, 7th graders made posters embracing diversity
Artwork by Lorraine.

Artwork by Deja

Artwork by Yahzyah

Tree Silhouettes

I was so proud of the 7th graders' trees. They went above and beyond what I could have expected with these stunning tree artwork.
Artwork by Crystal
Artwork by Marvelles (I wish he had finished cause he has great details in pencil that we can not see)
Artwork by Ellusion and Lorraine
Artwork by Kiara B and Tjena
Artwork by Lashamere and Cartez

Back to Drawing!! Grades 4-8

We are back in school! Our first project was decorating the cover to our sketchbook. This year's group colors are orange, purple and green. Every class had the same guidelines of wavy line in middle, box on the wavy line, sun by their name as well of a zig-zag line, spirals and other shapes. Even with the same guidelines, everyone's unique style shined through!!
On the back side they had option of free draw and writing their name in different styles. Here are some of my favorites:

Sketchbook Covers by Kiara B, Crystal, Marvelles and Tatyana

Sketchbook Covers by Yahzyah, Deja, and Lorraine

Sketchbook covers by Jevon, Kiara R, Brianna, Indiya

Sketchbook Covers by Kori, Tysean, Juavonte, and Emonie

Go Panthers!

This was a school-wide collaborative artwork. Each student was given a page of the logo to design. To find out who the artists are, click on the image and you will find names written on the corner of each page.
Lashamere did the sorting and taping to put together the one below.
Lorraine did the sorting and taping to put together the one below.
Below is Ellusion's and Kiara W's





Below the "h" is by Kiara L, "e" be Shamaree, "s" by Mikayla, and the black and yellow paw is by Yuzerick.

Few More from Clay Play

Some of the Upper Grade students were jealous of the 4th graders' clay creations and made these:
Cell Phone by Lorraine

Person by Kenye

Rabbit by Jacara

Op Art Directions and Some Successes!

The Upper Grades are making Op Art ("op" is short for "optical" relating to the eye). Optical Art tricks the eye. In case some of you need to do yours at home, here is the website we looked at with instructions: Instructions Here is a link to other student artwork with same art project: More Examples. They named theirs "Dr.Seuss Tornados". What do you think this art project looks like?

Below are some of our classroom Op Art successes:

Artwork by Alanchae
Artwork by Deshun

Artwork by Terrence
Artwork by Loraine
Artwork by Kiara Wood
Artwork by Yahzyah
Artwork by Shilah

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

Write a Story to go with Your Artwork.

If you ever want to write a story about your artwork, I will be sure to post it on the blog. Just e-mail it to me (vgr104@gmail.com). Lorraine wrote a story to go with her Picasso Portrait. She was reading a book about the Holocaust, so her portrait is very sad. Her story is also very sad and powerful, it is called "Holocaust Pain".

"Holocaust Pain. Her pain is my pain. Jewish kids and old people are taken away. They shoot and kill. The little boys and girls have no future. We see the kids being put in a camp where there is no light. My friend has stitches and glass on her. She can’t bare the pain. So we wait in this horribly dark room. A little girl is dragged away. My friends and I wait. The time has come for our last stand. I saw the sweet little Jewish girl shot. I cried. Then we both held our hands and this was the end? To be continued."
Story and Artwork by Lorraine. Ask her to continue it because that is all she gave me!

Make Room for Dr. Seuss

4th and 5th graders made a room inspired by Dr. Seuss's "Cat in the Hat" drawings, such as the fish, dress, ball, green eggs, cake, rake, and anything they wanted! They used a vanishing point to make the shape of their room. They did some great details, remember to click on image for close-up.
Artwork by Ellusion
Artwork by Markel
Artwork by Lorraine

Artwork by Shilah

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!

Congratulations to the 5th- 6th grade winners of the MLK portrait contest! Remember click on picture to get a closer look at each winner. The winners are listed in the following order: Most Expressive, Most Realistic, Most Creative.

Room 108: Devonta, Lorraine, Shilah

Room 301: Shalon, Deshun, Daniqua

Room 302: Calvin, Alanchea, Kenya

Runner-Ups for 5th-6th Grade: Lashamere, Jamerah, Taron