Art 8- Ceramic Line Designs

Art 8 began the year with a review of The Element of Art: Line. Students were to create 3 line designs in their Paper53 sketchbook on their iPads. After critique, students were to re-create their designs on ceramic using a black ceramic pen. This was a difficult medium to work with, but the students used their problem-solving skills to create a beautiful piece of artwork. Below is showing student work in the iPad, print, and ceramic piece.

Graphic Design- Line

Graphic Design students took notes on The Element of Art: Line

Line: is a path on a two-dimensional plane. Using line is the simplest way to communicate visually. Lines can be used to create pattern, texture, or shadow.

Project 2: Line, pattern, texture, and shades

Graphic Design students are to create an 11x17 abstract poster using line, pattern, texture, and shades of color in Illustrator. They are to research a quote that has meaning to them that will be added after the background pattern is drawn. Below is an example of their project:

Graphic Design- Type Dominant/ Image Dominant

Graphic Design Students have completed Project 1:Type Dominant/ Image Dominant

• Design a 5”x 5” compositions illustrating an object and the name of the object.
• Select your subject matter (keep it simple)
• Draw at least 20 square thumbnail examples to begin. 10 type dominant and 10 image dominant.
• After you have explored your thumbnails, begin to produce your images on the computer.
• Compose 6 variations of the type dominant and image dominant compositions. 
• Choose 3, one of each, type dominant and image dominant, and one more of your choice. Then mount them on 16” x 20” black board.

Below are photographs of the students matted Type Dominant/ Image Dominant designs;

Art 7-"Howli-day" Card Design

The 7th grade students are working on the Montgomery Humane Society’s “Howli-day” card. Students are creating 5 sketches in their Paper53 sketch books on their iPads.  I will hand deliver their masterpieces to the Montgomery Humane Society. Below are students working hard on their ideas from their iPads: 

Art 6- "Howli-day" Card Design

The 6th grade students are working on the Montgomery Humane Society’s “Howli-day” card. Students are creating 5 sketches in their Paper53 sketch books on their iPads.  I will hand deliver their masterpieces to the Montgomery Humane Society. Below are students working hard on their ideas from their iPads:

Art 6- Line Design

It is the first time for the sixth graders to enter the Art Department in the Saint James Middle School. It is exciting! We begin the year with The Elements of Art (line, value, texture, shape, form, space, and color). The students take notes before every project. Their notes last were on the element of Line.

We discussed:

A line is a path that a point takes through space. Lines can be thick, thin, dotted or solid. They can make straight movements, zig-zags, waves or curls.

• Lines can convey emotion as well. They may show excitement, anger, calmness, tension, happiness and many other feelings, because of this, some are said to be expressive.
• Other lines that are very measured, geometric, directional and angular are called Constructive lines. They tend to appear to be man-made because of their precision. 

In tPaper53 on their iPads they had to come up with 5 sketches of a line design using a variety of lines such as, thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zig-zag, curvy, dotted, dashed, and curly. After they completed their sketches we discussed them and one was chosen for their final which was completed on a 9×12 sheet of drawing paper using pencil and sharpie marker.

Below are pictures of sixth grade students working on their line designs from their iPads:

 

 

Alabama National Fair

Photography II students are also working on photographs for the Alabama National Fair. They are to take, edit, and narrow down photographs that will fit in these categories: Pictorial, Unclassified, and People.

Best Photo Contest

Photography II students are preparing, editing, and narrowing their final photograph of downtown Montgomery for the Best Photo Contest.

Photography I- Practicing the Dark Bag

Photography I students took notes on the camera, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and the Sunny 16 Rule. Before they venture out to take photographs for their new project, they spent time on how to roll film on a reel and then practiced rolling film on a reel in a dark bag. They have to really get in tuned with their sense of touch to be able to recognize what object they need next without being able to see it. Below are pictures of students practicing...

Pinhole- Developing Fun

Pictured below are Photography I students in the darkroom developing their Pinhole negatives after taking a photograph with their handmade camera's. The darkroom is the only place undeveloped photographic paper can be taken out. The red in these photographs is due to the safe light used so that we can still see and maneuver around in the dark. This light is the only light does not harm the undeveloped paper.