Cold Hands, Warm Hearts

After making textured painted paper using warm/cool paints, 7th graders made a collage using their painted paper.
Artwork by Lashamere and Yahzyah

 Artwork by Keyana and Tyree

 Marvelles and Mikayla always take the art projects in their own very unique creative way.  Marvelles drew an actually human heart rather than using art shape.  Mikayla's heart has a face and the hand is over the eye.

 Artwork by Kiara B

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

Peek into Marvelles Sketchbook

Marvelles practices drawing at home too!

Portrait Pros!

Every student at Fernwood did a self-portrait using the color of their art class group and a color next to it on the color wheel (analogous colors for you advanced artists :-)) Together all our portraits made a rainbow.

Remember, click on the image to get a close-up. There were so many fantastic portaits!

Self-protrait by Marvelles

Fall Breeze brought Bare Trees

With the cool air, the trees became bare. The upper grades celebrate the change of season with their drawings of winter trees. The background was done with watercolor paint. They learned how to use salt and saran wrap to make designs with the watercolors. The crisp borders were done using masking tape.

Artwork by Gabriel
Artwork by Markese
Artwork by Clayton
Artwork by Alvin
Artwork by Jarrien
Artwork by Christopher

Below are winter trees from the 5th grade.
Artwork by Zyshon
Artwork by Tatyanna
Artwork by Devonta
Artwork by David
Artwork by Marvelles

Radical Radial Designs

The Middle grades did radial designs with their name in the center.
2013Lesean, 2013Markel, 2013Marvelles, 2013Merelyn, 2013Tatianna, 2013Tatyanna, 2014Ashley, 2014Ashton, 2014Brianna, 2014Damien, 2014KiaraL, 2014Triniti