November Doodle Calendars

I did not send students home with a December Doodle Calendar for homework this month, so I am sharing a few examples of the 8th grade November Doodle Calendars. My 8th grade artists work hard every day in and out of the art room to practice skills and improve their talent, so I was so happy to receive 22 fantastic calendars. Here are a few in which the artists filled the space and came up with such creative ideas:

In case you didn't already know, you can click on each picture to enlarge it. Happy Wednesday!

Happy Monday!

Today marks the first day of the 15th week of school! 6th and 8th grade artists were so productive today that I just wanted to brag about them a little bit. 😀

6th grade weavings have finally begun! After demonstrating patience while slowly learning several weaving techniques, artists are chosing to use three within their composition in order to convey a specific theme. Students are chosing to either convey their theme through a literal representation (e.g. weaving a picture) or through color that represents their theme. I'll post more pictures right before Winter Break when students are sure to have nearly half of their weavings complete.

Last week, 8th graders glued their magazine cutouts to scratch art paper and started adding their zentangles. This project, Gustav Klimt Scratch Art, is borrowed from a great mentor of mine, Ms. Neel; students were creating this project while I was student teaching and I loved the outcome so much that I brought it to FCCS. Artists are putting their magazine cutout within a space, creating foreground, middleground, and background, and drawing with mostly contour lines so they can fill their empty space with a variety of zentangles, a form of soothing dooding. To set the mood, we are listening to relaxing music, which really seems to be inspiring the artists - take a look for yourself!

Each day my artists surprise me with more and more talented, creative ideas!

5th Grade

5th grade has been doing a tremendous job working on their assignments both in and out of the classroom. During the month of November, students were given another Doodle Calendar to complete; this time, the calendar was predominantly comprised of depictions of the Greek gods or goddesses we discussed in class. Creating a drawing of a symbol or pyhsical representation of each god or goddess helped students practice for the subject matter of their two Ancient Greek projects as well as help them to remember the significance of each god or goddess in Greek mythology. Here are a few of the outstanding Doodle Calendars:

Students have been using Chromebooks in class to access the Ancient Greek Symbaloo I put together in order to plan their Greek Vase compositions. Students had to chose any vase shape to draw and fill with either a scene, a character, or a symbol from Greek mythology, and complete it with a variety of Greek-inspired patterns. Students planned the drawings out in their sketchbooks first and have been working on transferring their ideas to their handmade scratch art paper. I am so pleased with the outcome of this project! I have never tried using scratch art for this project, and as it is more difficult because students must work slowly and have a secure plan, the final product is beautiful! The last update I posted including rough draft drawings from 5A, so here are a few I snapped from 5B today:

You will just have to wait to see the final artwork when I update the Virtual Art Show next week!