Fabulous Sea Life Watercolors!

I have a new project- the sea life watercolors!!!! I had no idea these would be so fantastic.  Last Weds, students began drawing and coloring underwater scenes using oil pastels.  This week, we started with a 4 panel experiment (first picture) where students learned about 4 different watercolor techniques: plastic wrap textures, wet-on-wet painting, salt scars, and wax resist.  Then students applied these techniques to their sea life paintings.  Can you spot the techniques in the watercolors below?

Art in Life

Some funny sights from the weekend- a happy salad from Sweet Green and a "One Love" sign in Dupont.  I am aware I'm being generous by titling this post 'ART in life'...

Sharon Draper

This is an 8th graders book report poster from humanities class on Romiette and Julio- a book written by my 7th grade bridge teacher Ms Draper!  Loved seeing this in the hallways of CCPCS.

(Sorry for the bad picture, taking better pictures is a goal of mine for the new year!)

Work in Progress: Sea Life Watercolors

My Wednesday elective is super awesome.  I have 24 kids who don't quite fit in the room but they make it work.  Over the past 2 Wednesdays they created a sea life watercolor.  Here are the first pictures of students looking at source materials and previous sketches to create an aquarium scene.  Get excited for their final results (to be posted soon...)!

Practice: drawing a sports figure

This quarter, I decided that my students needed a little more structure for their figure drawing assignment.  Once the students understood how to do a basic human figure (skeleton, joints, muscles, clothes) I let them choose simple sports figures to recreate.  Here are some of my students hard at work.

Works in Progress: Shoe Drawings

7th graders are working on their shoe projects, here are a few pictures of our process- shoe sketches, source materials, critique sheets, and more.

Rule board

The 3rd quarter we revisited our classroom rules/norms.  Each student wrote their 3 most important rules on a notecard and posted them on my awesome giant bulletin board.  We grouped them by theme, you can see they mainly fell into 5 groups with a few outliers.  I think it visually looks pretty cool and helps the kids see what rules we all think are most important.

Sketchbook Covers

Art Club has been working on their sketchbooks since the beginning of the semester a month ago.  I finally snapped a shot of some of their creative sketchbook covers.