8th graders made artwork for children in Syria. We partnered with the Memory Project to make Identity art for children who are refugees living in poverty on the border of Syria and Jordan. This art will get sent over to Syria in January of the coming year. It will be a special gift and encouragement to these children. I am so happy with our student work and how it will make a difference for these children.
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After doing our pop art print and learning how pop art is about popular and everyday objects, student chose an idea for the top of a jar. We learned how they made canopic jars in ancient Egypt to hold organs during the mummification process. Each jar had a different animal or human head on top. Students got to choose something that is popular to them now as the 3D top of their jar. Here are some photos from this project. Students learned more about working with clay by creating pinch pots, coils, and slabs to make this clay jar.
The final project this quarter focused on color and architecture. Students learned about the color wheel including primary, secondary, complementary, warm, cool, analogous and rainbow colors. We discussed how color affects us and makes us feel certain emotions. Then, students explored Google Earth and created a Project taking them to 6 iconic architectural places in the world. Here is my example of the project with 6 places I would like to travel to. Here are the finished tessellations. Students were creative in turning their shape into something new and unique. They used contrasting colors to help make their design stand out. 7th grade artists are making creative tessellations. We started by learning that tessellations are made from shapes, have no overlaps or gaps, have the same vertices, and can repeat forever. Students practice with dot paper and simple shapes to make tessellations. After that, we learned how to use paper to change squares into translation and rotation tessellations. Here are some examples. Students were able to be creative in envisioning a new thing in their tessellation shape. Here are some works in progress and finished works. 7th grade students have been learning about the influence on pop culture on their lives. We looked at the artist, Romero Britto, and his pop artwork style inspired by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Students created their own pop art prints inspired by Britto's use of a simple image, pattern, and broken shapes. Here are some student edition and unique prints. 7th grade artists finished the quarter by making a creative snow globe inspired by architecture from around the world. Students created their own Google Earth project to find images of different famous structures. We also worked with both warm and cool colors when painting the background and buildings. Here is a finished example!
7th graders finished painting their canopic jars with realistic colors. We looked at the pop art sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen. These artists create large-scale sculptures of everyday objects. Canopic jars were used to store 4 different organs in the mummification process in ancient Egypt. There were different heads on the top of the jars. Students chose something from popular or consumer culture to place on the top of their jar. What is popular to these students now? 7th graders have been learning about the color wheel and how to use color in creative ways. Students mixed colors using the primary colors and black & white to make new colors. This project had students cut and fold paper to make designs that are one color on one side, and the complementary color on the other. One color shows the positive space and the other shows the negative space; then they flip on the other side! The complementary colors are: red & green, blue & orange, yellow & purple. Some students also used black and white in a design. 7th graders have been working with shapes and patterns to make a creative tessellation. We first looked at simple tessellations made from shapes (triangles, squares and hexagons). Then students cut paper to make translation and rotation tessellations. Here is a Prezi that can help explain and describe tessellations. Tessellations are made from shapes or polygons, can repeat forever, have no gaps or overlaps and share the same vertices. Enjoy these creative tessellations inspired by M.C. Escher. |
Mrs. Prevot
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