A selection of paintings, drawings, and cloth pillow sculptures by 8th graders are featured this week. Several students drew and painted while observing photos of work by established artists. Ramzy Kaoud combined the imagery of two historically important artists. He did pencil and ink drawings of a rooster by Picasso and head studies by Leonardo daVinci. He photographed his drawings and used them in a thought-provoking, surreal, digital artwork which he developed in the Sketchbook app on his iPad.
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Fifth grade art students are currently creating relief sculptures of sea animals. Students used the grid method to draw from photos. Some of their drawings are shown below. They transferred their drawings of aquatic animals to Styrofoam sheets which they have been cutting out with hacksaw blades. One end of the blade has been wrapped with paper and tape to make a protective handle. The form of each animal will be built with paper and tape on the Styrofoam base, which most students are reinforcing with splints made of popsicle sticks and tape. The back of the sculpture will remain flat so that it can hang on a wall when finished. After sculpting the form of the sea animal, students will apply paper mache and glitter glue to create a colorful skin. They will make hanging hooks with paper clips and screws. A relief sculpture is a form of art that projects from a background surface. When hung, these sea animal sculptures will appear to emerge from the wall, in the way that the head on a coin projects from a flat surface. Eighth graders in Mr. Bell's Art Tech classes used the Renaissance-based grid method to create free-hand pencil and ink drawings of the Stations of the Cross which they colored electronically on iPads. Illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken served as models for this student art.
Some of our 8th graders have recently used their sewing skills to create animal pillows. The materials are felt cloth, thread, poly-fill stuffing, and buttons. Stations of the Cross drawings by 8th graders appear below. Students in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class used the grid method to create free-hand pencil and ink drawings which they colored electronically on iPads. Illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken served as model images for this student art. The 4B and 4P art classes are shown here with sailboats that they have constructed with paper, tape and drinking straws. The hulls and paper mast supports of the boats required precise folding and measurements. Soon, students will create a wave-like base with paper and cardboard upon which their boats will rest. The boats and waves will be given a colorful paper mache skin. Several of our 8th graders have recently finished the Stations of the Cross project in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class. Illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken served as model images for this student art. Students drew grids with half-inch squares on small prints of the model images. They made grids with 1-inch squares on larger pieces of cardstock. Students observed the contents of each block of the small grid and drew in the corresponding blocks on the larger grid. Students drew over their pencil lines with ink, erased the lines of the large grid, and photographed their drawings. They edited and colored their drawings with the Sketchbook app on their iPads. Kindergarteners are currently making paper maracas, which they will soon develop further with paper mache, faces, and cotton hair. After rolling paper cylinders and sealing corn kernels inside with paper end caps, students test their seals by doing the shake test. If corn flies out, a hole needs to be patched with paper and tape. During this project, students learn about cylinders by constructing them with paper and tape. Kindergarteners engage in challenging spatial/structural problem solving as they draw, cut, trim, patch, and secure the lids of their maracas. Click the video below to see the KB art class test their maracas. Will the corn stay inside? Some of our 8th graders have recently finished the Stations of the Cross project in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class. Students used the Renaissance-based grid method to create free-hand pencil and ink drawings which they colored electronically on iPads. Illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken served as model images for this student art.
The first graders of the 1B and 1S art classes proudly display the base structures of their Mr. and Ms. Mousey Head paper sculptures. In this geometry-based art project, students internalize the concept of the cone by making one from a paper plate. The cone serves as the base form upon which each student will work creatively to give his or her mouse head a unique personality. During the next few weekly classes, students will use colored tissue paper, a glue/water mixture, yarn, corn, pom poms, and cotton to finish their sculptures.
Eighth graders continue to work on their Stations of the Cross drawings in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class. Students drew grids with 1/2-inch squares on small prints of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken. Proportionate grids with 1-inch squares were drawn on larger sheets of card stock in order to scale up the small images. Students must remain focused on corresponding positions on 2 graphs as they draw the contents of each grid block. When finished with their pencil drawings, students go over their lines with permanent marking pens. Students take photos of their drawings after erasing the grid lines and stray pencil marks. Then, the images are developed further and colored electronically with the Sketchbook graphic design app on students' iPads.
The photos below show drawings in progress. Second grade art students are shown below near the end of a class during which they were finishing the construction and assembly of the basic cross shape of their paper, cardboard, and paper mache sculptures. Students will soon build support bases and create colorful tassels for the upper ends of the crosses. Second graders will carry these works into the church during the 8th grade All Saints Program later this year.
To kick off the 2024-25 school year, 8th graders have begun drawing the Stations of the Cross in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class. Students drew grids with 1/2-inch squares on small prints of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken. Proportionate grids with 1-inch squares were drawn on larger sheets of card stock in order to scale up the small images. Math concepts are reinforced as students must remain focused on corresponding positions on 2 graphs as they draw the contents of each grid block. When finished with their pencil drawings, students will go over their lines with permanent marking pens. Students will photograph their drawings after erasing the grid lines and stray pencil marks. Then, the images will be developed further and colored electronically with the Sketchbook graphic design app on students' iPads.
The photos below show drawings in progress and students at work in Art Tech class. |
Mr. John Bell, Art TeacherMr. Bell focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and presented STREAM (Science, Religion, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) workshops at the Diocesan Teacher Conference, as well as multiple workshops throughout his years in the Diocese. Archives
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