Wow! I can't believe these are finally done and up on the wall. The artistic endurance in this group of students is incredible. We worked 4 solid class periods on this drawing and they asked for another! Kids even took their work home! I'm so impressed.
The project was an exercise in playful lettering combined with pattern making. Students created sampler sheets of patterns and then we practiced block, cloud, bubble and 3D lettering. Students were then tasked with combining these ideas and creating an artistic composition that balanced the two elements.
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The last of our portrait series was done solo or in pairs. Students were asked to make a caricature or exaggerated drawing of a well known person. They identified the distinctive features of that person and made choices about what to exaggerate. The results were pretty funny AND impressive.
7th and 8th graders continued to explore portraiture with this assignment. The learning target for this unit is to create a series of portraits using a variety of media. The first drawing is a positive image, a line drawing using pen. Students were asked to represent what they see. The second is a scratch art or negative image. Students were to represent the negative space or the "white" highlighted areas on the original image. It is not exactly the inverse of the pen drawing, but instead they are representing the not black lines in scratch art.
5th and 6th grade students looked at Renaissance artwork by an unlikely artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Students were tasked with creating strange portraits concocted with foods and plants. They built these faces and bodies out of foods and used their drawing techniques to make them look three dimensional. These are colored pencil portraits.
7th and 8th grade students worked for about two weeks on these expressive pencil portraits. Students were asked to take an expressive selfie or a "smushed" face photograph by smashing their faces on plexiglas. They used a photograph as a resource image. Criteria for this drawing is to replicate that expression, use a wide range of value to achieve a modeled or 3 dimensional look and to draw with accuracy through observation. The portraits needed to be a 1:1 ratio, drawing exactly the size and scale of facial parts that they see in the photo. They used a grid system to transfer information.
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AuthorEdie McDonald, Visual Art teacher at Field school. Archives
December 2018
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