June 3--
Students did a one-point perspective drawing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZD8BjTK8dE
Some began to color theirs; there will be time to color tomorrow.
April 21 - May 14
In this stretch of days, students worked daily in their nature journals. They made a nature journal that could be the nature journal based on the experiences of Sam, the main character in My Side of the Mountain.
April 2--
Students completed their project for the school auction.
https://www.kitchentableclassroom.com/how-to-draw-bubbles/
April 1--
Students continued to work on their auction art project.
March 31--
Students continued working on their auction art project.
March 30--
Students continued to work on their auction art project.
March 29--
Students continued to work on their auction art project.
March 26--
Students continued to work on the auction art project.
March 23--
Students continued to work on the auction art project.
March 22--
Students completed one painting for the student auction project.
February 10--homework: finish today's one-point-perspective drawing. Here is a link to the items posted in Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/u/2/c/MTI3NDc4NTczNzkw/m/MjcxMjQwNTE2MjQ3/details
Students finished the work they started yesterday on one-point perspective. The directions and steps are posted as material items on the Reading/English classwork page of Google Classroom.
February 9--
Students began another work of art using one-point perspective.
February 8--homework: finish coloring your one-point-perspective drawing.
Students drew a one-point-perspective drawing in their art journals and colored their work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNRxfaCKLw
February 5--
Students began a series of lessons in which they learn about one-point perspective. They watched one video and practiced a simple one-point perspective drawing.
January 22--
Students used watercolor paint to paint the background of their "Thank You" posters for parishioners.
January 21--
Students cut out letters for their "Thank You" posters for parishioners (for Catholic Schools Week).
January 15--
Students learned about watercolor pencils and practiced five techniques using them: blending, using penciled circles as a palette, dry pencil then wet the paper, wet the pencil then draw, use the pencil on wet paper.
December 16--
Students finished their foreground / middle ground / background artwork.
December 11--
Students continued working on their foreground / middle ground / background artwork.
Students completed a coloring page of Our Lady of Guadalupe, trying to make the colors as authentic as possible with the colored pencil colors they had.
December 10--
Students learned the strategies artists use to show foreground, middle ground, and background.
The foreground has more detail and more vibrant colors;
things in the foreground are larger than the same objects in the middle or background;
things in the middle ground are higher up on the paper, and things in the background are higher still.
Things in front overlap things behind them.
So artists use size, value, placement, and overlapping to show space in their artwork.
Students began work on their foreground, middle ground, background project.
December 9--
Students cut out an outline to prepare for a lesson on the art element of space.
December 3--
Students completed the lesson, "How to Turn a Shape into a Form" in their art journals.
December 2--
Students finished up their paintings, using acrylic paint to add stars of the night sky.
December 1--
Students used the watercolor techniques they learned yesterday to begin a painting of galaxies that will be used as a St. Michael School thank-you note.
November 30--Watercolor paper is available in the office during regular office hours for students who are currently learning from home.
Students practiced some watercolor painting techniques.
Here is the video we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y01pzW_z0O4
November 25--
Students wrote a Scripture verse on the watercolor background they had painted.
November 13--
Students practiced making a background with watercolor.
October 22--
Students practiced making parallel lines and cubes on a practice worksheet.
October 15--
Students received a page that lists and defines the fundamentals of drawing.
They watched two videos putting into practice the first fundamental: foreshortening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Culz1ctObpo&t=37s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVvtqt5D3c&t=592s
October 9--
Students made their final version of the Earth drawn in three dimensions with a cut-away showing the layers of the Earth.
October 8--
Students practiced making a three-dimensional drawing of Earth that shows its layers in a cut-away.
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Students reviewed primary and secondary. They colored a color wheel and identified the tertiary colors that belonged in each spot.
Primary colors: yellow, red, blue
Secondary colors: made by mixing two primary colors. They are orange, purple, and green.
Tertiary colors: made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color.
Students learned that primary colors are blue, red. With watercolor pencils, water, and a brush, they mixed red and yellow, yellow and blue, and blue and red to find the secondary colors, orange, green, and purple.
Students learned nine fundamental laws of drawing as described by artist and teacher Mark Kistler.
The Nine Fundamental Laws of Drawing create the illusion of depth. They are as follows:
Foreshortening: Distort and object to create the illusion that one part of it is closer to your eye.
Placement: Place an object lower on the surface of a picture to make it appear closer to your eye.
Size: Draw an object larger to make it appear closer to your eye.
Overlapping: Draw an object in front of another object to create the visual illusion that it is closer to your eye.
Shading: Draw darkness on an object opposite the positioned light source to create the illusion of depth.
Shadow: Draw darkness on the ground next to the object, opposite the positioned light source, to create the illusion of depth.
Contour lines: Draw curving lines wrapping around the shape of a round object to give it volume and depth.
Horizon line: Draw a horizontal reference line to create the illusion that objects in the picture are varying distances from the eye.
Density: Create the illusion of distance by drawing objects lighter and with less detail.