Collage 701 - Deep Sea

701's Underwater Collage is finished and looks amazing.

String Art 1

Last week I introduced 601 to String Art. You have just started exploring the very basics, so while you do that check out some of these links. They will give you ideas...

• Art Gallery of 6th Grade String Art
• String Art Basics
• Scratch Project: Son of String

Announcements Week 19 (26 Jan.-01 Feb. 2009)

Grade 6
This is the last, last week for Fingerpints.

Grade 7
You will be making sure that your Development Sketchbooks are in complete order and that all art work done so far is mounted.

Grade 8
The Cells Project is finished. This week you will be completing a self assessment of your painting. The Rubric can be found in Grade 8 Rubrics under the title Cells 6.

Friendship Wheel - 702

As you know, a new task has been set for us due to the Ministry coming for a visit next month. Your challenge is to create a piece as large as the Ceiling Fresco that is somewhat portable and able to be used as a stand-alone piece of work.

After a great brainstorming session you decided upon a Friendship wheel alà Facebook. What you have to decided this week is exactly what the wheel is going to look like and set up parameters for what the connecting lines will signify...

Collage - 701

A pochoir print of Matisse’s “Polynesia”

Inspired by the need to create something positive in our class, you are now working on two large Collage pieces for the bulletin boards outside the Art Room. In your last lesson I set you a challenge to create a Collage of cut-paper shapes inspired by the work of Henri Matisse in the length of one period, which you did. Your first collage is based on the themes of the Sea, Underwater, Creatures. This week you will continue to mount the Underwater Collage and then move onto deciding a theme for the second board working under the same tight time constraints. Good Luck!

Pigeon Portraits - 703

After making your Paper Pigeons the class shifted gears and started on another tangent of Pigeon Art: Pigeon Portraits in water colour. Each one of you has been working on and completing portraits inspired by your original Paper Pigeons. This week you will be making sure that your Portraits are complete and in class discussing how to display all of the paintings as one large piece. You will also be recording your progress in your Development Sketchbooks.

Announcements Week 18 (19-25 Jan. 2009)

Continuing with what we were doing last week:

Grade 6 Fingerprint Paintings and Loose Ends
You will be completing your Fingerprint Paintings and wrapping up any loose ends in your Development Sketchbooks.

Grade 7 Development Sketchbooks, Mounted Work & New Projects
Making sure that your Development Sketchbooks are in complete order and that all art work done so far is mounted, as well as:

• 701 - Complete the Bulletin Board Collages
  
• 702 - Plan the Friendship Circle
  
• 703 - Complete and Mount Pigeon Portraits
  

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
Deadline dates are passed. This week you will be writing an in-depth reflection of the Cells Project. See the Cells 5 posting.

Kapadokya Projects 3 - 702

As you know - we have completed our Ceiling Painting (I am still waiting for photos to be emailed to me). This project has gone extremely well despite numerous interruptions in our schedule. What I am posting for you today is reminder of the reflections you have been doing in your Development Sketchbooks.

You should have the following documented:

Ceiling Fresco 4

1. Explain what went wrong in the last lesson
2. Write down the solutions you came up with for those problems:

• One Person mixes the Paint
• People are lined up 3 to a table in order of the Grid
• Tape the side of the tile with Name + Tile #
• Each Student will have a reference photo to work from.
  

Ceiling Fresco 5

1. Describe everybody’s role in the project, eg. Murat in charge of the grid, Ege in charge of the reference photos, clean up and also working in the smaller groups at each table of 3 tiles.
2. Progress. Describe how we put the fresco together on the floor and made some artistic decisions about colour, unity and texture.

Ceiling Fresco 6

1. The completed project, describe what it looks like and how we put it up.
2. Reflect on your thoughts about this project.
   

Cells 5

Protozoa in Real Time

To complete the Cell Project you will need to write a Reflection in your Development Sketchbooks. This will be your culminating task for this assignment. Next week you will complete the self-assessment rubric and then all grades will be final. The deadlines for the art work are passed, and so if you still need to complete your paintings, you will need to do that on your own time, no more class time will be given to the paintings.

Cell Project Reflection:

1. Make a note of how long the Cell Project took (13 weeks) and comment on your time-management skills. Have you completed your Project on time? If yes - Explain how you managed to do that. If no - Explain why and what you are planning to do about it.
2. Describe your final painting as if you are talking to somebody who has not seen it.
3. Does your Painting successfully represent your Cell? Is the Story of your Cell evident?
4. Do you think that your Painting is successful? Both from an Artistic and a Scientific point-of-view. If yes - Explain why. If no - Explain why
5. Does your final Painting look like your Sketch Painting? If you have made adjustments and changes to your Sketch Painting record those now and explain why you made those adjustments.
6. What were some of the challenges that you faced in this project?
7. What were some of the successes you accomplished in this project?
8. What have you learned from doing this project?

Announcements Week 17 (12 -18 Jan. 2009)

As you know the Semester end at the end of this month, which means the following for you:

Grade 6 Fingerprint Paintings and Loose Ends
This week you will be completing your Fingerprint Paintings and wrapping up any loose ends in your Development Sketchbooks.

Grade 7 Development Sketchbooks & Mounted Work
You will be making sure that your Development Sketchbooks are in complete order and that all art work done so far is mounted.

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
It is that week. Deadline, deadline, deadline.

• 801 - Monday, January 12, 2009
• 802 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• 803 - Thursday, January 15, 2009

No extensions are available - you may however, come in at lunch times and after school from 4 - 5:30. Use your time wisely...

Announcements Week 16 (05-11 Jan. 2009)

Happy New Year! Welcome back to school after the Winter Break.

Grade 6 Portraits
This week, no matter where you are in other projects, you will be completing a portrait of a classmate using your Contour Drawing skills. Please listen carefully to the instructions in class, and remember I CAN TELL if it is a contour Drawing or not. Pay attention to details, like eyelashes, hair, eyebrows, you know the neat stuff about a person and also remember to draw touching all sides of the paper in your Development Sketchbooks.

Grade 7 Card Making
As you know the Parent Council is hosting a brunch, which is also a fund raising event for the school to support the CAS projects that we are involved with. You, as a class, are going to create packs of cards to sell at the brunch to help with the fund raising. The cards are to be crafted with care and with the idea that they should be something somebody would be tempted to buy, and that you would be proud to sell.

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
This is it Grade 8, you have two weeks left, including this one to get your Cell Paintings completed. The official due dates are:

• 801 - Monday, January 12, 2009
• 802 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• 803 - Thursday, January 15, 2009