Judith Meyers

Art Department

2008-09 First term Projects

Grade 8

 

   In the 8th grade, students have the opportunity to use professional artist materials to create an acrylic painting.  Painting is a very complex activity: it involves paying attention to brushwork, color, values,  composition, all at the same time!  In order to assist students in achieving a level of success with their first painting,  I focus the assignment to stress one of the elements of design.  This assignment had a focus on values of dark and light.

 

 

Acrylic painting by:  Jacob Gilbert

 

Grade 8

 

   Another grade 8 project involved students having to do a self portrait.

 

   The focus of this assignment was to teach students awareness of shadows on the face and hair to be able to create an illusion of three dimension.  They used colored pencils for this assignment.

 

 

Colored pencil drawing by:  Bryan Standish

Grade 7

 

       For this assignment, students choose a photograph of a landscape to use as a resource for  their project.  Using oil pastels, student learn to match, and mix colors.  They have to create different textures using the crayons  for different subjects in their composition.

   Working with oil pastels, is a great medium to use to introduce  learners to the art of painting.

 

 

Oil pastel by:  Kaeley Vera

Grade 6

 

     The dragon is a fictitious creature that was created in the imaginations of peoples of different cultures.  Each culture had it own variations as to how the dragon should look.

 

      After studying dragon anatomy, students were to create an original dragon.

 

 

Watercolor by:  Olivia Wallett

Grade 5

 

     The purpose of this assignment was to teach students how to create an illusion of roundness by using oil pastels to indicate a dark and light side to each object.

 

 

Oil pastel by:  Nicole Luckey

Grade 4

 

    This assignment was the culmination of two separate, but related lessons.

 

         First student were given mirrors and asked to observe the differences that occur in their facial features when asked to make a face illustrating an emotion ie, angry happy, sad etc.  They had to draw faces showing these emotions.

 

   The next lesson involved learning how to make human flesh tones from primary colors.  The student used water color paints to accomplish this.

 

  They then added bodies to the flesh tone heads. After the paint was dry, they added expressions to the people.

 

 

 

Watercolor by:  Rachel Horowitz-Benoit