Grade 6: Drawing Cupcakes!

Students have been working on their cupcake drawings over the past few weeks to reinforce the techniques and skill sets involved in drawing a 3-D Form on a 2-D surface. The majority of my talented students have not learned this skill yet! This is a great drawing project to follow up with after learning how to draw spheres and cylinders. Students really enjoyed this project because who doesn't like a tasty cupcake! It also makes a great connection to careers in the culinary arts and the creativity and science that goes into cooking and designing cupcakes.

Grade 6 Sstudents transformed their cylinder shapes into cupcakes for this drawing project that used oil pastels and/or colored pencils. Students are in the process of completing these colorful drawings that will be due at the start of 2013!
Check out students at work in art class.

Shading a Sphere and Drawing Forms and Solids

Grade 6 students have been learning how to draw 3-Dimensionally and have done a series of exercises to build on their fundamental drawing skills.  Students learned about Value and how to blend their pencils to create a sphere that looks 3-Dimensional on a flat piece of paper. We learned about looking at light and the importance of highlights and shadows.

Next, students learned how to draw a cylinder and the basics of drawing in One-Point Perspective and practiced techniques demonstrated in class in their sketchbooks.

Abstract and Nonobjective Art

Grade 7 students are learning about Abstract Art and are experimenting with The Elements and Principles of Art to create work that is driven by Line, Shape, Color and Texture. Below are some of the points and art literacy terms discussed in class so students have a better understanding of the different art movements and genres.

Call for Grade 7 Artwork: Scholastic Art Awards 2013

The deadline is fast approaching and students must have artwork submitted by January 8th, 2013.
This is open to all Grade 7-12 students and artwork created in the 2012 school year.

To read more about the contest and guidelines go to
http://www.artandwriting.org/the-awards/how-to-submit

To read specifics about the steps and New York City region click here.

Portraits with Personality

In Grade 7 Studio Art, students recently completed portraits of someone they admired or inspired them or they had an opportunity to create a self-portrait. Students studied Proportion and how to draw the face and its features more accurately that used measurement techniques learned in class.
Here is a handout students used to guide them in learning Proportion.

 Additionally, students learned how to create depth and volume by using a range of Values in their portrait drawings and emphasized highlights and shadows. We surveyed a variety of artists and their styles like Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer to Symbolic portraits from Frida Kahlo. Students used a variety of drawing mediums that included, Conté Crayons, charcoal, pencils, and erasers, which students experimented with and used to create rich values and textures in these portrait drawings.  These final drawings have wonderful use of line and likeness to their subjects and have come along way from their first portraits drawn in class.

Woody Allen by Jesse G.

Steve Jobs by Brian I.

Abe Lincoln by Mae C.

Michelle Dockery by Ava H.

Regina Spektor by Lauren M.

Taylor Swift by Shruthi V.

Usain Bolt by Alex D.

Charles Darwin by Max L.

Self-Potrait by Miki M.

Cristiano Ronaldo by Zachary S.

General Patton by Benny H.

Self-Portrait by Julian D.

Studio Art Class on 12/12/2012 at 12:12 pm

Before 12:11 pm

12:12 pm