Splatter Drawing

I started this project by having Art 2 take photos of splatter.  They could take photos of water, paint or anything else that gave a great splatter effect.  Most did water and a few did paint.  But then to up the difficulty I asked them to draw the photos that they took.

These are just a few of my favorites.

Danica H.

Heidi S.

Lexi B.

Nikole K

A minion reasons we love art history

I am in love with the minions.  My husband has even made their giggle his ring tone for when I text him.  So when I saw an example on pinterest of someone that had done something similar I knew I wanted my art 2 class to combine minions and art history.

Each student was to find a famous work of art and put a minion into the main character spot.  I think they did a great job, and had a lot of fun with it at the same time.  I love any project where they have to do a little bit of research, especially into art history.

Austin L. - Scream

Brandon S. - Vitruvian Man

Danica H. - Venus de Milo

Drea B.

Hannah S. - Roy Lichtenstein

Holly S.

Kristian H. - Son of Man

Lexi B. - Edgar Degas

Morgan H. - Frida Kahlo

Sydney H. - Girl with a Pearl Earring

So there are a few that I wasn't sure which famous work of art they were trying to copy, but They were still cute.

Resist the urge to paint

Art 3 was given an assignment to create a watercolor resist painting.  I asked them to create an incredibly detailed painting with designs or markings in the overall image.

Brooke A.

Courtney M.

Emily H.

Hunter S.

Jena F.

Mikayla R.

Pour some paint on me!

So who doesn't love the opportunity to make a little mess.  My classroom is full of them, so why not add more.

I had seen this project on Pinterest and another teacher, Deb Plagge, talked about it at our state convention a couple of years ago.  I loved the idea, but I have never had enough old house paint, in enough fun colors, to feel like I could just waste paint.  But this year I decided to put a call out to all of my student's parents and see if I could get some paint.  And boy did they ever come through.  I actually got so much paint, I don't know what to do with all of it!!  That is not always a bad problem to have.

But I didn't want it to just be boxes of cardboard stacked on top and then paint just poured over them.  So I had my students design an object, animal or whatever they wanted out to cardboard and then had them paint it before they poured the extra paint over the top.  I love how they came out.

Bree H.

Courtney M.

Jacob K.

Riley H.

Paige S.

Terra C.

Bikes and guitars

Sorry to disappoint, but this post is not about a future Hollywood movie starring Channing Tatum.  Of course I wish it was, I'm sure that title would make an awesome movie about a struggling biker band.

But Anyways...Back to reality.  This are the two things that I had Art 1 students draw for their final contour line drawing assignment.  I am excited to see how they turn out.  I don't know if I spent enough time working with contour this year, but I don't know what else to have them do.  So if anyone who follows this has some great contour lessons I would love to see them.

They were given the 50 minutes of class to draw both still lives.  I told them when we were about half way through so that they could move to the other.

Stella and Favre

This week Art 1 was looking at shape artwork.  Our main focus was on the artists Frank Stella and Malika Favre.  It is not very often that we look at multiple artists that are still alive, So this was a real treat this week.

Both artists have their own style and both do their work in different mediums, but we took our inspiration from these artists and made artwork using construction paper.  Each student did several studies in their sketchbook before they started their final design, but in the end I thought they were overall good.

Paul M.

Mary D.

Marissa J.

John S.

Riley R.

Drawing blind

So Art 1 started looking at drawing Contour line this week.  We started with blind contour and then added some watercolor to it, to jazz up the pictures.  Our inspiration was the artist Ian Sklarsky.  We all agreed that our little blind contour drawings got more interesting when we added the watercolor to it.

John S.

Tom L.

Baylee B.

Vaughn C.