A few more examples of my students’ work!  These are watercolor/pen & ink drawings based on songs.  They were asked to use a watercolor wash first to illustrate the overall mood of the song, then they were able to go back later to add more color once they had the drawings done in ink.

As of [...]

Printmaking is probably one of my favorite things, and the students will be starting on this next project once they get back from spring break so I’ve been working on my example.  We are trying to get them to think more conceptually, and to really approach this project as if they are artists (up until [...]

Okay, time for my paper sculptures WRAP UP.  To refresh your memory, this was my example to show the kids:

The original image, and then a reinterpretation based on a chosen artistic style (they learned about impressionism, post-impressionism, and those crazy Fauves.)  Mine was focused on post-impressionism and specifically, pointilism.  Yeah.  PARTY.
Okay so here are a [...]

Lately I have been spending a ton of time working on a tessellation project for my Intro to 2D kids.  I’m almost finished with it, but I will show you the progress photos up until where they are now.  Then I’ll show you the rest once I’m done.
I went with a dinosaur image because it’s [...]

I continue to be so impressed with my students.  Here are some works by my Drawing II kids for a colored pencil project about opposition.  They each had two opposing words to work with, and were supposed to show a relationship or interaction between those two words.  This is the first time they’ve used color [...]

This is the first display I set up in my classroom!  My kids did a project on Architecture & Color… which means they had a LOT to learn (this is their first art class.)  We covered color theory, basic photoshop & photography tips, drawing, AND painting just for one little project.  They probably have no [...]

I had another assignment to create a movie, I guess because my teacher liked the first one?  And I finished it late last night- just in time for the deadline (yikes.)  I like the first one better, probably because I was more interested in the subject matter, but this one is still okay too I [...]

One of my assignments for class is to make a reflective teaching journal to record my experiences teaching in a high school.  I FINALLY got started on it, and modeled it off the heart book that I made a couple weeks ago.
This is the first page, before I put the covers onnn
And then I put [...]

Tonight my friend was talking about doing an art lesson on suspension, and it reminded me of a project I did for a photography class a couple years ago so I thought I’d share it here  =)

I can’t remember what the assignment was exactly, I just remember that I wanted to play around and experiment [...]

In addition to the visual journal and the silhouette/star technique, we are also teaching the Saturday School class to make these hollowed out altered books.
The idea of an altered book can be a little sensitive, and it was funny when one of the students asked if she could read the book she was given to [...]