For this project we focused on the non-object art of Russian expressionist Wassily Kandinsky.  Kandinsky had a condition called Synesthesia where he would see music in colors and shapes and lines.  His paintings were visual "compositions."  We chose a piece of music and emotion to inspire our artworks and chose colors, lines and shapes to fit. We used a variety of techniques with oil pastels to create different textures.  Enjoy SEEING our MUSIC!

These designs are based on the amazing paintings of Togo Africa artist Joseph Amedokpo.  We fill our space with lines, shapes, patterns and colors from corner to corner!

We learned all about how Picasso developed the style known as Cubism.  We read the book "When Pigasso met Mootisse" about the friendship and rivalry between Picasso and the French artist Matisse.  We studied the concepts of Cubism and made our own Picasso style pig portraits!

We studied the beautiful shapes and colors of tiles found all over the Middle East as part of Islamic architecture. We learned how to shade smoothly in colored pencil and created these tiles using the principle of RADIAL SYMMETRY.

For our first unit, we studied Harlem Renaissance artist James Van der Zee.  Our drawings are based on one of his famous photographs.  We studied the range of values you can achieve with various graphite pencils and shaded our cars with strong contrast.  We did line drawings of cities in the background.

We did these fun drawings the first week of school.  Students filled the whole page with the letters of their names and then filled in empty space with patterns that represented different things about themselves.