Ceramics

Our lastest project is our ceramics. We each had to make a bowl or plate. First we had to cut out a template and make sure it fit in our bowl. Next we got a slab of clay and roll it out to fit our template. Next we had to cut out a piece of clay to fit our template. Then we had to draw a design in a sketchbooks to put on our bowls and added it to our bowls the next day. Finally we put it in the kiln and waited for it to be fired. Finally today we added glaze to our bowls to make it be glossy. Now we have to have them fired in the kiln again. Above is the picture of my bowl/plate thing. 

(By the way, I hate this picture.) 

Pastel Still Life

This time we worked on still life. Each table in the room had an arrangement on it and we had to draw part of it. First we had to pick a part of the arrangement and start drawing it on our paper.  After we finished drawing it we used pastels to color it. we had to have many different colors, shadows, and highlights. Above is the final picture, hope you like it as much as I do.

Rainbow Coke

This week we worked on Localized Perspective boxes. You started with a picture off the computer and changed it and made it a crazy color. Then we added a caption that didn't fit the picture at all, like "taste the rainbow". Next you traced it onto boxes and a paper. The next day we painted it the colors to match the orginal picture and added a background. finally we displayed them in the library so everyone could see them. It turned out amazing, above is a picture of the finished project!!!

Stencils

This week we each made a stencil. First we went to the computer lab and printed out a picture of anything we wanted. Then made the black and white. The next step was to trace the picture to enlage it and decided weather to cut out the black or white, I cut out the black. Then we had to make a frame.

Above is me and my friends getting ready to cut the wood for our frames and nailed them together. We backed our frames with cardboard and began painting them with whatever color we wanted. finally we used our stencil and spray-panited them onto our frames. Here I am spray-painting...

Finally we got to take them home, here is the final picture......

The Pokemon-Cat-Thing

This week we worked on a project that I call mossic brick picture. We each printed off a picture in new colors that were not in the orginal. Then we all got in groups and choose one picture to do, we choose a calico cat. After that we went in the court yard and started working. Each brick was 3 pixels. One person would add dots with chalk on the bricks to the wall that matched the colors in the picture. For the whole week we worked on the picture until we got ......... a cat thing, that looks more like Pokemon than a cat. 

(Sorry but I don't have a picture of it :( ) 

Oil Pastels Portrait

This week we worked on a project where we had to draw a person that we knew and make a portrait of them. I decided to do my little sister, Emily. First we had to make a grid on the picture and paper then start drawing them on the big paper. After we drew them on the big paper we used oil pastels to color them in a crazy way. Above is me coloring my picture.

Here is the finished project of my little sister!!!!

Mud Pantings

This week we did a mud painting, sound like fun huh? We all choose a picture that a famous artist did and had to enlarge it. Our group did a buuny (a.k.a. muddy) After we enlarged it and trace it on to a bigger piece of paper we had to poke hole in it, not fun! Then the next day we had to trace it on to the sidewalk. Above is a picture of us doing just that. 

  

Here is the bunny after we finished tracing it with chalk. Then we had to get the mud and paint the different shades on our bunny with MUD!!!!! Below is the finished project......

OUR AMAZINZ BUNNY!!!!!!!!!

Value Scale Drawings

This week we drew another classmate and practice our shading. Above is mine, I wish it looked better. The day before Mr. Sands took our picture in front of a bright light, then printed them. The next day we randomly picked someone from our class and had to draw them. It is a lot harder than it seems. To get the different shapes we used tracing paper and traced the different shapes of light, drak, and in-between. Then we traced it again in our sketckbooks. Finally we shaded and shaded and shaded some more. And we finally got a picture that looked some what of the person we were drawing. (Sorry Catherine T.)

Shadow Art Fun

Today we learned about shadows and how to make art with them. Each table had to decide which type of shadow art they wanted to use. We choose the easiest one. What we did was cut out differnt flower shapes, then we taped them to a blank sheet of paper. Afterwards we put the paper up to the light and it casted a shadow. Above is picture of what it looks like!!! Enjoy!!!! 

Cupcake, the turttle, Drawings

At the beginning of school we got to draw our teachers pet turttle, Cupcake. Each picture was a conture line drawing, which means once you start drawing you cannot pick up you pencil until your done. Since the turttle was moving it was very hard to draw him. Hope we don't do that again!!!!!

Fun With Glow Sticks!!!

Today we palyed with glow sticks..... like little kids. Each table worked together and would make a shape or word with their glow stick. As they outlined their thing the camera would count down 10 seconds. Each picture/word was really hard to do. The one above is a heart thing my friend Amber did. Everyone had lots of fun and their pictures looked great.

Cassette Art

This week went went back in time and made art with something people used before CD's.... CASSETTES!!!!!!!!! We each had to look at a picture, then draw it in our skechbooks. Mine is the GA Bulldogs symbol. After drawing it we tranfered it to a board and started going over it with cassette tape. Finally we added a boader and took a picture. It was lots of fun and they all turned out great!!!!!!! 

P.S. Go Dawgs!!!!!!!

Animal Hands

           

Check out my awesome cheetah hand!!! This week we had to draw a contour line drawing of our hand then turn it in to an animal. I turned my hand into a cheetah. Awesome, huh? Sorry about the picture being blurry, my falut.

 

Then the next day we got to paint our hands like our drawing. What do you think....... awesome or what? Sorry, again for the picture being blurry :(  Keep coming back for more posts!!!!!!!!!!