Our students have learned all about the lathe and how to use it to carve and sculpt ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils, sketch pencils, and fountain pens. They worked carefully and safely to get from an unfinished block of wood or acrylic to a fully carved/sanded/and sealed pen. I'm so proud of their work! |
0 Comments
We studied gesture drawing, proportion, dog breeds and accuracy, color mixing, and texture with our dog unit in 8th grade. Here are a few of our finished works!
Drawing puppies may sound like fun, and it is, but it's also very challenging! Puppies use so many facial muscles, just like we do, so they can show a wide variety of emotions. This makes them a more advanced subject, which is perfect for our 8th graders! Check out our progress on acrylic paintings below.
The Tunnel Books were a partial Choice Project because Students were allowed to use media of their choice. Materials included pencil, pen, watercolors, gouache, markers, colored pencils, sharpies, and gel pens. I encouraged them to mix the media in order to achieve the look that they wanted, rather than simply choosing their favorite art supplies. Our 8th graders have really improved on style and planning portions of our studio projects! Car Fabrication and Auto Design unit is underway! Students enjoyed debating features that are important for "sports cars" vs "Mom cars" and how design budgets are spent to reach a customer base. We watched a short film that documented the factory process of building a finished car from the beginning of the assembly line to the final product. Now students are working on acrylic paintings. Gorgeous progress so far! Students chose a childhood memory as their muse, for a multi page tunnel book! Enjoy the progress photos below.
|
Ms Hennington
Visual Arts Teacher Categories |