Avant-garde
The Apex
Unconventional views - thinking outside of the box - outside the lines. In eighth grade I speak with the students perhaps more than they like. I challenge/expect them to think about themselves, question their reasoning, understand their impact upon others. I want them to receive the freedom that comes with maturity and more importantly accept the responsibility as well.
In eighth grade my students have the opportunity to apply all their prior knowledge into their creative process and produce art like no other time in their educational history. For some my art class may be the last visual art class they take. I want it to count. I want their art to be the very best they've ever created.
Project One: Portrait I - Contrast and Executive Function - Students think about how they view themselves. What do they find important and not so important? To this end they use colored pencil and regular pencils for their portrait and markers for their background. Lastly students create a puzzle out of half of the composition, writing a rationale for their work. Classical and contemporary artist are presented.
Project Two: Portrait II - Distortion through a magnifying glass - accentuating what is important. This will be a mixed media composition.
Project Three: Portrait III- Mapping the face. Students will be challenge with using the topographical studies from maps as a bases for the details of their faces.
Progressing Portrait: Supplemental Portrait - Students will produce a Friday drawn "snapshot", depicting a moment every Friday. This work will always be a "quick" sketch on a 3 inch card, then made into a composition of 9x9 and framed - perhaps entitled, "This is Who we Are"
In eighth grade my students have the opportunity to apply all their prior knowledge into their creative process and produce art like no other time in their educational history. For some my art class may be the last visual art class they take. I want it to count. I want their art to be the very best they've ever created.
Project One: Portrait I - Contrast and Executive Function - Students think about how they view themselves. What do they find important and not so important? To this end they use colored pencil and regular pencils for their portrait and markers for their background. Lastly students create a puzzle out of half of the composition, writing a rationale for their work. Classical and contemporary artist are presented.
Project Two: Portrait II - Distortion through a magnifying glass - accentuating what is important. This will be a mixed media composition.
Project Three: Portrait III- Mapping the face. Students will be challenge with using the topographical studies from maps as a bases for the details of their faces.
Progressing Portrait: Supplemental Portrait - Students will produce a Friday drawn "snapshot", depicting a moment every Friday. This work will always be a "quick" sketch on a 3 inch card, then made into a composition of 9x9 and framed - perhaps entitled, "This is Who we Are"