November 13

Today's starter drawings were koi fish and turtles.

And these will also be our sketchbook assignments this week. Please draw both koi fish as well as turtles on your page. Make sure that your page is full of both. Colouring is optional but as always completely welcome! This will be our subject matter for our up coming water colour projects.

The masks are also still in progress, and will be finished during the beginning of class next week.

Photos will follow hopefully by next week.

November 6

Sorry for the last minute post from our last class. It's amazing how fast a 5 day weekend can go.....

Last week we started our class off with a shadow drawing tutorial.

Then we drew a few apples using the same techniques. We've talked almost every class about shading and the importance it can bring to every piece of art work. 

We started practicing pressure of our pencils as well as adding high lights and low lights. I took everyones sketchbooks and doodled shapes in them. Our sketchbook assignment is to colour each space with a colour and ensure that you use high lights and shadows in each space. This will lead into future projects that are coming up.

Other than our beginning drawing, we worked on our mask assignments again. 

Next class will be our last class to finish up our masks.

 I will also be taking photos of the masks as well as the kids wearing their masks for our blog. 

October 30th

This was a very full and productive class this week. We started off with a review quiz, winners got first choice of mask blanks for our next project. Some of the questions we asked were:

What is a Hue + White called in Colour Theory?

Tint

What is a Hue + Black called in Colour Theory?

Shade

If Red, Blue & Yellow are Primary Colours, then what are Green, Orange, & Purple?

Secondary Colours

What is the Second Favourite Colour in the United States?

Green

These were all discussed during our third class when we went over Colour Theory.

I also went over a few Famous Paintings to see the students familiarity with Art History.

Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh

Mickey Mouse - Andy Warhol

Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci

Tiger at Dusk - Robert Bateman

I think this is something we are going to continue to do every class as we are surrounded by amazing art every day.

After our quiz we started to work on our masks. My Fab 5 group started to paint the background colour on their masks. My Big Hero 6 group added the 3D portion to their masks, whether it be a beak, a pop up, or a level change. These have the week to dry and we will paint up and glue the extras on this coming week.

Our Homework this week was more of a doodle & graffiti drawing of our names.

I have asked the students to doodle a different theme into each letter. I do apologize to the students that have very long names....sorry guys.

Here is an example of what I'm looking for:

Mrs. Macre Art Class was my inspiration for this assignment. Have fun with it. And don't forget to try and make it "Out of the Box" somehow.