GLEN ROSE JR HIGH ART BLOG

8th Grade Art Students are making use of some old Styrofoam laptop boxes to create some pretty cool sculptures. Doesn’t this look like fun?? We’ll post more of them when they are finished. Let us know what you think.

Hey guys its Ananda!

On October 27, 2009 my class and I went on a field trip to the Kimbell Art Museum. There were a lot of pretty paintings there! ) I saw one (on the bottom) and it was my favorite! It’s cool because when you’re far away you can tell it’s a Weeping Willow, but when you’re up close it just looks like a bunch of paint splattered everywhere (which is also a characteristic of many Impressionist paintings.) This painting was made in 1918-1919. The person that made it was from France and lived from 1840-1926.

Do you know who that person is? Well we’re going to have a game to see who can post first on this blog. The question is who is the person that created this painting? Whoever posts first will win a prize! But you’re not going to know what the prize is until you win!!

 

 

Hope to see lots of people posting!!!!!  :]]

 

 

 

 

                                                      -Ananda :))

8th Grade Art Students have been working with photography for the past week or two. You may have seen them walking around the campus with their camera. These students put some thought into “how they captured the image”, rather than just “what they captured. ” Let us know which photos are your favorites. We are now finishing up some enhanced photos and also a photomontage project. We’ll post them later.

Art 2 Students just finished making some silver jewelry. We used PMC (Precious Metal Clay) to make them. PMC is like modeling clay but is really silver particles mixed with an organic binder. The binder burns up during the firing and the pieces are all silver when finished. Art 2 students had fun making these pendants and they looked great. They should be wearing them around school so check them out when you see them. A special thanks to Jack Davidson of Jack and Jo Creations (www.jackandjo.com) for sharing his time, equipment, supplies and experience with us. We enjoyed it.

What do you think of these drawings from the 8th Grade Art 2 Class? Click the picture for a larger version and to leave comments. If you think they are good, try to explain what the students did that makes them look good. Is it the amount of detail, colors, composition, unique perspective, use of design principles, creative use of art elements or what? Try to put to words what you see that makes it good.