October 31, 2011 Grade 8 - Congratulations on Your UN Day Carpet!

What a great job you all did in constructing the sawdust carpet for UN Day. Everyone participated and worked together to accomplish this work of art. And this year we were able to share the process with PreK and Kindergarden students. Those of you who were teachers and helpers in the process did a wonderful job guiding the little ones through the experience.

Thank you for all of your hard work, smiles and laughter.

This week, PAINT!

We will be looking at David Hockney's latest works done in rural England. His landscapes are rich in color and that is just what we want to experiment with. We will look at landscapes from the 19th century, Constable, Turner, Van Gogh and then we will turn our eyes to the art room window. We will make and use a view finder to find the part of the landscape we want to focus on. We will be exploring color, tints, shades and intensities. We will be using tempera paints.

October 31, 2011 Grade 6 - 7

Grades 6 and 7 will be exploring David Hockney's California period of 1960-70. They will select a California palette for their painting in the style of David Hockney. They will be using tints and shades in their compositions. We will look at scenes from Edward Scissorshands and listen to music describing the "little houses on the hillside made of ticky tacky".

October 26, 2011 Grade 8 AB

October 2009

October 2010
This week grade eight students will be executing their UN sawdust carpet design. Above are designs from the previous two years. This project is on its way to becoming a Discovery 8th grade tradition. Students will be using their block letter skills to make the stencils for the words in the design. They used their graphic design skills to create thumbnail designs to communicate the values of the United Nations.

October 25, 2011 Grade 6 - 7

In this short week students will begin recording some color experiments in their sketchbook. They will refer to these in future projects.

October 18, 2011 Grade 6 - 7 and 8

Color! Students will learn or review procedures for painting and then conduct a variety of color experiments, based on Josef Albers “squares”. They will create a color palette and use it a complex composition.

October 10, 2011 Grade 6 - 7 and 8

This week we will finish our still life compositions of marshmallows and cones. We will begin to explore the element of color by looking at the work of Josef Albers. Students will complete several color experiements based on his work.