Hearts. Paint brushes and Jim Dine

A Lot of Love

So in LOVE with these!  I usually do a Jim Dine study with my students, but this year I really added some new depth to my lesson.  I did this with my 5th graders.  We used this power point with my students to learn about Jim Dine as well as the Scholastic ART article (the link is attached in my power point here:  http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-2385012-jim-dine-oil-watercolors/ )

Dem Bones...positive and negative space

Somehow forgot to post my last set of "space" pieces that my 6th graders created.  
We researched facts about our skeletons to add our writing piece to our art.

  

Creative Color Wheels & Writing Prompts

Love these creative watercolor color wheels.  We did a color theory study and the students came up with their own pieces to display their color wheel.  The writing prompt was part of their assessment and some of them did a pretty good job with it.  Feel like we need to work on "explaining" ourselves more when we write.  

The writing prompt my students used for their writing piece.

Color	Makes you feel…	Implementation
Blue	Safe and secure	Good if you need people to trust you
Green	Calm and confident	Good for making people spend money
Red	Energetic and vigorous	Good if you want people to risk
Yellow	Optimistic and cheerful	Good if you want people have fun
Pink	Romantic and dreamy	Good for influencing (young) female s
Orange	Willing to take action	Good if you want people to act
Black	Powerful and wealthy	Good if you want people to spend money

Use what you about color theory and the chart above to answer the writing prompt. 

You are working for a video company and you are designing a case for the new “ART ROCKS” game.  This game scores points for creatively developing CD covers to match 2014 top songs.  In the box below, draw your cover for the “ART ROCKS” package and use color pencils to color your piece.  Then write and explain your reasoning for your design and why you chose the colors used on the video cover. 

Selfie's - Value & Grids Jr High Style

GIANT SELFIES!   These were so creative and I love how giant they are!  My 7th and 8th graders created these and I can't wait to hang them up.

First we had to take our selfie's.  They either took their own or I snapped them in class.  They printed them off on an 8x11 sheet of paper in black and white.  Then we learned about GRID drawing.  We started off with my zebra drawing here to discuss placement, importance of measuring the grid, creating the appropriate amount of sections, placement, lines and shapes.  Some of my students had to learn the hard way, but most of them did very well.

 Then they drew the grid on their photo using a 2x2" scale.  Next they drew their grid on their giant poster 6x6" scale.

They were totally stressed about how large their nose and eyes were... but once they saw the entire photo coming together then they were able to relax.  As you can see, some of mine did not quite get it to scale, but some of them did an great job.
They were able to use sharpie to outline, and colored sharpie to add one pop of color for emphasis.  Then they had to use paints to create their shadows.

 

  Here Hannah is using our I Am poems I had them write to fill the space for the background.  I told them to be creative with their designing of their poems...some did better than others.