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Term Project: Found Art

Due October 31

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2007-2008

Self-Portrait Triptychs

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

The self-portraits are hanging in the B wing corridor.
       
   
           
           
           
           
           
           
oops! art to come!
           
           
           

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.

       
       
City Linocuts The last project explored printmaking with linocuts.  Using images of the city, students created landscapes, and learned about some of the experimental processes available in printmaking: chincolle and overprinting.