Monochromatic Paintings

  THIS lesson was a wonderful step by step introduction into monochromatic painting.  The steps were easy to follow and my Art II and III kids did GREAT!!!!    I was glad to integrate technology into this lesson and look forward to doing something similar in the future with all of my art classes.

All were on display in the room, but 

here are just a few of the finished products.  

All of these kids did an amazing job! I think this lesson is a keeper!

Update #2--7th grade watercolor

*****I scheduled this to publish several weeks ago.  Not sure what happened!!!

7th graders worked on an abstract watercolor piece.  I used THESE instructions.  Not sure which way they were supposed to hang, but they're abstract, right?  Doesn't matter!!! 

This was a good, short lesson if you need a filler project for a few days.  

Again, I don't have any step by step photos, just the finished products.

Good job, 7th grade.

Update #1-Chuck Close Portraits, Art I

So Many Projects!!!!! and I haven't documented them as fully as I would have liked.  For the past six-weeks, 7th grade-12 grade art students have completed a couple of projects.  The first I will highlight this week are the Chuck Close portraits Art I students completed. 

I did this same project last year with all of high school. You can view pictures and maybe??? instructions HERE

Here are the finished products:

Next week, I will upload Art II and Art III 3D projects.  Stay Tuned :)

Happy New Year!

Super short!

The end of last year found all art classes working on HLSR art, so I really didn't have too much to blog about, but did post a few pictures of artwork in progress to Instagram, so please follow thereddesk for more immediate images of what the kids are up to.  Gosh that was a long sentence . . . was it a sentence ???

 I will begin blogging more regularly now that we will be working on smaller and shorter projects.  

One project I actually completed was a collaborative piece my kids worked on LAST YEAR! Hope you enjoy seeing the end product as much as I do.

Thanks for hanging in there!  More to come in the upcoming weeks!  

October Update. . .Day of the Dead Projects

Wow!!  It has been an incredibly busy month and start to the school year.  This post is going to simply serve as a vehicle for pictures of what my kids have doing in art since Jackson County Fair Art.  I've created an Instagram account just for art room pictures and have been posting photos there on a more regular basis.  Check it out, it's simply "thereddesk."

ALL of my classes worked on Day of the Dead projects for the entire month of October.  I had two groups create clay masks, two groups create paper mache masks, and two groups build life size paper mache skeletons.  

In no particular order are images of the kids working their way through the projects.  I've tried to group them accordingly, but, you never know.  There may be a picture out of place!

1.  Getting started

              

 

 

 

2.  Making Progress

 

 

3.  Getting to the end

 

 

 

 

 




4.  And DONE!!!

Here are some of the finished products.  All are currently on display in our library and throughout the school (the skeletons).

 

                      

. . . some close ups of a few . . .

Super proud of all of these kids.  They really worked hard despite "winging" some of the steps.  Good job to all and thanks for checking into the art room!  Remember, follow us on Instagram (thereddesk) :)