Contour, Gesture, Spray Paint, Ink, High School Art Project

Continuing the process of having my students fill up their art tool boxes, we embarked on a new multi-media project that involved several steps.

1. Life drawing and drawing from photos students took of models (other students on campus, family members, etc.)The models had to preform some sort of gesture. 
2. Make a couple of small drawings then combine 2 images (people) onto a larger paper. Students were encouraged to explore proportion, cropping, and overlapping.
3. The images were then inked. 
4. We pulled out yarn and spray paint to mask lines and shapes. I suggest 2 colors and do light spray overs as not to get heavy coverage. 
5. The figures were then painted with a light-medium coat of oil paint so that the black ink lines would show through. 
6. The final step was to use acrylic ink to outline and/or all lines that could depict: expression, mood, movement, energy, unity, contrast in the figures. 

Below are the results.  

Step 2 and 3

Step 4-organized

Step 4-chaotic

Step 5

Step 6

Student project (Rana)

Student project (Alya)

Student project (Gloria)

Student project (Sofia)

Student project (Hana)

Student project (Nagham)

Student project (Mona)

Student project (Farida)

Student project (Sarah)

Student project (Zaina)

Student project (Zeina)

Student project (Alya)

Teacher example #2

Teacher example #1

Middle School Tempera Self-Portratits

There portraits are from my middle school class last year, quarter 4. One of the frustrating aspects of being a Middle School Art Teacher teaching exploratory/wheel classes is cycling through a new batch of kids every 9 weeks. Just when you start to get into a groove with class, they move on.

With this project, I wanted the students to play with black outlines, blend colors but make the image appear flat. When we took photographs, the topic was funny expressions.  

Mola Project reprise 7th grade Art

It has been a year and some change since I last taught the paper mola project and seeing that I'm teaching 7th grade again it was time to bust out an oldie but goodie. For some reason several art teachers have pinned and re-pinned this project on pinterest.com. Thank you for liking the idea.

If you would like to see the original post from 2011 click here it describes the process and lists vocabulary for your students.

In this post I broke down the sheets so you can see the layers. Enjoy.

Grade 8 Bike drawing and painting

Riding a bicycle on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt is more or less tempting fate (better not tell my insurance company or they will drop me). One of my joys in life is peddling around aimlessly armed with a camera in search of the unknown or that ONE moment. In a couple of weeks I will be riding the streets of Barcelona and Vienna blending in with the landscape.

Somehow my classroom has become a bike refuge and therefore the object of a recent grade 8 art project. I flipped the bikes upside down and placed them in the center of the table. The objective was to focus on a section and not on the entire bike. Materials used were markers, pencils, pens, india ink, and paint on 13" x 19" paper.