March Honors

This month in the Honors class we begin our large project and focus on building portfolios for the upcoming Hermitage Museum Art Show.

This year we are exploring a fantastic lesson I first discovered from Barbara Rhodes, retired art teacher. I have tweaked it and modified some of the ideas involved to make it a bit more personal. I'm excited to see what our kids will do with this!

Students will be given a handout containing the specific instructions that I will go over in class. This will be a three to four week painting assignment.

N8.1: Understand and apply steps in artmaking.

• N8.1.1: Generate multiple solutions to express an idea.
• N8.1.2: Plan for and reflect on the art-making process, using a sketchbook/journal.
• N8.1.3: Develop and use a process art portfolio as an idea-building resource to create works of art.
• N8.1.4: Refine personal works of art to improve quality of craftsmanship.

N8.2: Use multiple sources for inspiration in artworks.

NAI.2: Identify and use steps in creative art making processes.

• NAI.2.1: Identify and use steps of the design process, including brainstorming, preliminary sketching, planning, reflecting, refining, elaborating, and researching, in creative problem solving.
• NAI.2.2: Use observational drawings and multiple sketches to plan artwork.
• NAI.2.3: Understand the strategy ?refer, reflect and reconstruct? (Roulkes) with regard to artmaking.
• NAI.2.4: Define a personal art statement.

NAI.3: Create artworks which communicate ideas and meaning.

 

Febuary 24-28

This month the exploratory art students will be working with the elements of art, focusing on one or two each week beginning with line and value.

Objective: The students will show understanding of value through the correct rendering of light and dark hues in an optical illusion design.

N6.4.1.a: Color-relationships
N6.4.1.d: Value-gradation

Lesson: Students will create a design showing their skill using value. They may use colored pencil, regular pencil and a variety of methods to create value including shading, hatching and stippling.
Homework: Complete at home if not finished in class. Due Friday 2.28 for a project grade (35%).