Wire Sculpture

I could kick myself for not taking and posting more photo's of my student's wire sculptures. Theses were the first couple finished and had my camera that day. Sadly, I didn't take shots of the other work. I guess some is better than none.

High School Cardboard Sculptures.

We have a huge recycling area in the back of the school with lots of cardboard. It is no longer rainy season so we took advantage of that. We looks at other examples to see what worked and didn't. For some, it was a long process to figure out the problem of how to manipulate cardboard and to think outside of normal convention for solving problems. Below are my student's examples.

Molas Middle School Art Project

Always popular with my students since 1995! Just make sure they don't cut themselves like some of mine did. Check the tags for learning objectives and concepts taught. You can always check my older posts for more examples by clicking here.

Consider the following: layers, negative and positive space, lines, bridges, shape, color, and safety (be aware of your knife blade).

Below are a few of my student examples.

Oil pastel leaves Middle School Art Project

Students made initial life drawings outside. Our school has plenty of vegetation to choose from.
Learning Objective: draw from life: shape, proportion. Apply color theory concepts in rendering objects.

Below are a few of my student examples.

Black and White self-portraits Middle school

Size: 18" x 18"
Learning Objective: to make and apply light, medium, and dark values.
Learning to see yourself from an unusual angle.

Tempera paint and really bad paint brushes (new and better ones arriving next year!)

Below are my student examples.