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.

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.