2008 Fall Fling Auction Artwork

ACMS students created a group of paintings to be auctioned in the Fall Fling fundraiser. The artwork for this year was an abstract painting based upon students ideas about the significance of the Olympics. Students represented their ideas about the Olympics through painted words and symbolic images.

6th Grade Visual Arts

The sixth grade visual arts classes have started their life drawing unit. They have experimented with the different grades of drawing pencils. Students should know the difference between a B and a H pencil. Students also practiced four different types of shading, as well as gaining a better understanding of the importance of value and proportion.
Today, the sixth graders are beginning their first drawing project. They are creating a self-portrait drawing using a half of a photograph as a reference for proportion and value.

8th Grade Mixed Media

The 8th grade mixed media class has been exploring new approaches to creating landscapes and portraits.  We have discussed the artwork of Anselm Kiefer and Zac Freeman as examples of artists who have used nontraditional means to create these traditional art forms.

Students developed a plan to tell how they would use at least two different media to create either a landscape or portrait.  The media choices were open to almost anything from dirt, to acrylic paint.  Students also had the opportunity to look at digital photos of their own works of art from 6th grade to the present as a possible source of inspiration and reminder of past experiences.

By the end of last week, all students were diligently executing their plans.  It will be exciting to see what comes out of this first assignment!

This week, we will have our first in-process critique with this artwork.

Sketchbook due dates

All visual art students now have their sketchbooks.  Each student is to complete a minimum of two full-page sketches per week.  All students were given a sketchbook assignment sheet to tape inside of the front cover of the book for more detailed instructions.

The first sketchbook checks for the second term will be-

6A  Monday, 12/1

6B  Tuesday, 12/2

8th Grade  Thursday, 12/4

 All students should have a minimum of four pages completed by the first sketchbook check.  This should include at least two life drawings.  Students are expected to bring these books to class everyday as we also use them for journals, planning, and classwork.