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8th Grade Artists started the
project by exploring how artists Scheile, Kollwitz, and van Gogh
communicate about themselves through body language and composition. They
learned how to “draw what they see” for the first panel, a realistic
self-portrait. By looking at Roy Lichtenstein’s series of prints where
he abstracts a realistic image, the students learned how an artist
exaggerates and simplifies an image to abstract it. For the second panel
of the triptych, they abstracted the image of their face, but the facial
features are still recognizable. In the third panel, the elements of
the face have been abstracted so much that they are no longer
recognizable. Each panel was inked and painted with watercolor, using a
specific color scheme: monochromatic, analogous, warm, cool or
complementary.
This lesson was inspired by Carol Horst's lesson
published in School Arts, December 2006 |
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2006-2007
Moveable
Murals
Dream
Landscape Collagraphs
Textural
Self-Portraits
Personal Identity Relief Sculptures
The first quarter began with a discussion about the art of Ben Jones and
his influences. Artists brainstormed their own interests, hopes,
dreams and hobbies and searched the Internet for images to use as
reference. Back in the art room, they cast their arms and a face
mold in plaster, then planned the painting for the sculpture, focusing
on expression of their identity and the Principle of Design, Unity. |
Due
October 31
