Students researched self-portraits in various genres like painting, drawing and photography and came up with 2 final images after doing a photo shoot of 10-20 pictures. They had to show two different sides to themselves.
Jackson’s funny image.
Another side to Jackson.
Hali’s very powerful image.
Jessica in motion.
Tessa revealing her mysterious side.
In this unit, the students researched abstract paintings and used poems to create images with texture, color and shapes related to their poems and inspired by their research.
Sarah did some great editing here with overlay.
Claire is playing with scale.
Jordan was working with layers of time and memory.
Nic is transforming day into night.
In this unit, students researched a variety of social justice posters ranging from 1960s French student uprisings to contemporary global warming, feminist issues, human rights and immigration. After researching, they came up with sketches on their posters after making a list of ideas. They then created the final poster using emphasis and contrast.
In this unit, students made three self-portrait drawings about a cactus drawing, digital or printed selfie drawing and a drawing in a reflective surface that was not a mirror. The cactus drawing was first developed through a set of bio questions about themselves to help generate ideas and symbols for their artwork. The second drawing was based of a prompt where they chose a hero and someone they admired and explored selifies using the individual face, snapseed or adobe express photo app and then draw digitally on their phone or printed on paper and drew to make the connection between themselves and another person. The reflection drawing was made in any surface they wanted such as spoons, computers, phones or other objects. It had to use shading and could have used color.
The first unit in Drawing and Painting I was an Elements of Art & Principles of Design Scavenger Hunt where the students needed to find images of all these categories such as color, shape, unity, pattern, rhythm etc. They could take photos or look on the Internet. This was a great way to build a common vocabulary to start the beginning of the trimester.
This is a three part unit where students created a character from the periodic table, made a watercolor background as a setting and wrote a story or made an animation about their persona. They filled out a series of questions about their character, chose to sketch their character realistically or with cartooning and explored mark making and shading in order to arrive at two final drawings that applied these ideas. They had access to cartoon handouts, websites and figure drawing poses on the Internet as helpers. This lesson encouraged lateral thinking and personification as well as storytelling. We also looked at images by Odilon Redon the comics of Wonder Woman for inspiration, as well as the watercolors of John Singer Sargeant.
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Milah used carbon for her element and explored diamonds and hairstyles.
Gwen’s sketches are playful renderings of her character.
Ava explored the element of antimony with a character with two personality sides.
They practiced shading by observing objects in order to understand and apply shading to their characters.
Students practiced their watercolor techniques in a grid by watching a video I made.
Grace’s character setting was in Australia.
Sketches
Some students chose to put their character inside their watercolor as one option I gave them.
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