Cities...in Perspective

7th graders learned how to draw in perspective, meaning they were able to transform a 2-d drawing to appear 3-d by giving height, width and depth to their forms. Students needed to create a city, either from a traditional standpoint or from a bird's eye view. Students needed to give their cities a specific theme as well, to make it appear unique--they did a great job!

Textured hands

5th graders learned about texture as the way something feels and value as the range of lights and darks in a drawing. They had the challenge to make each finger a different texture and each texture had to have 3 or more values. They did a great job!

Contour Line Project

For this project 8th graders had the challenge of observational drawing, where they had to look and see what they were drawing, rather than coming up with an image from their heads. Students learned about 3 kinds of line drawing- gesture drawing which is a very quick and loose drawing, blind contour drawing where the artist does not look at their paper or lift the pencil as they draw, and a contour line drawing- which is a drawing of the object solely using lines. Students had to draw the same object 3 times with each method of drawing.

A student's contour line drawing of a hallway in their home- beautiful!

Students had to draw blind contour drawings of themselves for homework--I love these results!

Students had to draw blind contour drawings of themselves for homework--I love these results!

Micrography with 7th Grade

Mrs. Moore's 7th grade homeroom learned that micrography is text arranged to create a visual image. These 7th graders created Micrography drawings of a subject of their choice, using words that define or describe the objects they drew. Their goal was to create an image using only text and have a variety of text and values in their drawings. Some students enjoyed it so much, they continue to use micrography in their weekly sketchbook homework.

Middle School Still Lives

2nd quarter middle school students learned all about value scales, which is the range of lights and darks in an image. Students had a still life in front of them as the drew and they added as many values as possible!