Welcome to Art Club!

Welcome to Art Club! For the rest of the year I will be posting ideas or mini-assignments for you to follow along with at home every Friday. I know that some of my students are addicted to Art! I wanted to share with them ideas and inspiration to find their own art adventures at home.

This year I was fortunate enough to win a grant from the D62 Foundation to form an Art Club with my students! I have always wanted to have an Art Club at Cumberland School. However, this year I am at 3 different Elementary schools. I want for all of my students to have an opportunity to participate.

The way this Club is structured is that ALL of my students are able to follow along and be creative in their free time. I would love to see what students come up with on their own as well, and would love to post their work on here. All of my 4th and 5th grade students made a book, or journal that they will collect their work in. Please feel free to use a sketchbook, or folder to collect your work in at home. I will be meeting at lunch with my 4th and 5th grade students that are participating from Cumberland for special activities as well.

Mrs. White and I with the prize patrol 

Before Winter Break students sewed together books to collect their drawings in. We also created unique covers with our names on them using scrap book paper and fun tools! It was a great activity as we prepared for winter break :)

What to put in your art journal

 My junior high students are expected to keep an art journal while in art class. They are asked to create at least one drawing/ painting/ collage/ creation per week. The independent project could be of anything as long as it:

     - has color or shadow
     - includes a background
     - takes at least 10 minutes of time to create
     - is created during free time, or at home

              I told the students that I like to start a fresh book out with a picture of my hand, as you always have one with you to observe and draw. Here are some examples of my 7th and 8th graders creating a picture of their hand in a unique way.       

Some other ideas include:

       

• draw your room
• color a drawing with non-realistic colors
• copy or enlarge a comic strip
• redesign your favorite album cover/ brand logo
• create a monster
• sketch out your favorite outfit
• draw your favorite vehicle
• cut out pictures of what you ate for dinner
• create a coat of arms for your family
• use alternate supplies to paint/draw with (tea, coca-cola, berries, make-up)
• self-portrait
• draw or paint your pet
• cut out a picture of a face, and draw the body and background to complete it
• cut out half a picture of an object and draw the other half
• draw yourself in a video game
• make a flip book
• finger print value drawing
• create a perspective drawing from an interesting view point
• sketch where you are
• turn your name into a design
• draw with tape
• glue fabric scraps to paper to create part of an image
• illustrate poems or quotes
• create a zentangle
• find textures from around you and apply them to new things through drawing or rubbings

Books can help us!

Sometimes its a good idea to look at books for techniques. Sixth grader Darius drew this dolphin with the help of a book on shading techniques. Great job Darius!