8th/7th grade micrography portraits

7th and 8th grade girls learned about micrography, images made from text. Students learned about value (the lightness and darkness of an image) and learned to create value with text, either by adding variation of size, distance and font of text.  They also used decorative text in the background to describe themselves. Some of their descriptions are easy to read and some students made their words into a pattern-- see if you can read them all!

I am so impressed with these portraits, and I think you will be as well!

Silhouettes, tints, hues and shades

6th and 7th grade girls defined their silhouettes with paint and words describing them. First girls described themselves using a bubble map. Next they looked up synonyms for their describing words. They then wrote their describing words in decorative text. Lastly, they painted their silhouettes using tints and shades of colors they they mixed themselves.

Sports Logo Design

7th grade boys designed their own sports team and logo. They needed to come up with ideas for their sport, city, team name and logo. They then played around with interested texts and color schemes!

Watercolor Animals

8th graders chose animals they were inspired by and used a transfer method to trace the animals to watercolor paper. Then they used a method called wet on wet to paint. (This means they used wet paper and wet brushes to make the paint spread around). The results are awesome'