Feb. 17th

Today our warm up will be to think of as many words as possible that are three to five letters long. After completing this list we will jump into our new project which will be making intricate letters out of poster board and adhering them to black matte board. Unfortunately this project requires the student to be in class with the materials provided. If you are absent, come in before or after school so you can get the materials and bring them home to catch up. Today is the only day we will be creating these letters, for this creation plays into our next drawing assignment!

My example:

From Drawing Two and Painting One

Student example:

Feb. 16th

Unfortunately, we were unable to look at Nathan Sawaya's work yesterday, so today we will look at his lego grid art work today. The rest of the class period will be finishing our grid project. Today is the last class period to work on it. Although will be accepted late until the end of this six weeks. Refer to yesterdays blog for the power point slide.

Student examples of the Grid Project:

From Drawing Two and Painting One

From Drawing Two and Painting One

From Drawing Two and Painting One

Feb. 15th

Today we will do another grid warm up. After this we will look at how scaling is important when creating realistic art work. This leads us to our artist of the day, Nathan Sawaya. Who creates life size, scaled lego sculptures while using a form of a grid. The rest of the class period is work time, to hopefully finish the simple grid project at hand.

Feb. 14th

Happy Valentines Day! Today we will be looking at more of Chuck's Close work, especially the paintings in which the final product still has obvious grid lines on it. After this we will begin where we left off in our grid project unit. Students will then work individually to draw from their own black shaped grid (which was completed Feb. 10th).