Category Archives: Grade 7/8 Art Projects

Drawing With Shades

Grade 7/8:  Pencil Drawing Their Collages This project was the final one in a series that focused on developing drawing and observation skills.  Earlier, they completed a gradated value scale, and then an all-white still life introduced techniques of shading … Continue reading

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Just Zebrafy It.

Grade 7/8:  Rendering Silhouettes in Zebra Stripes Here’s a bit of fun.  A relatively quick project, well placed in between 2 rather extensive ones. Previously, I suggested they bring a picture of something they might want to draw – something … Continue reading

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Drawing a White Still Life

Grade 7/8:  Using Pencil Shading Techniques / White on White After each student completed their shading line exercises, it was time to take that and apply it to a drawing.  I set up an all white still life of basic … Continue reading

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Some Things We Are Working On …

Currently, in the Art Room: The grade 2/3’s are an enthusiastic bunch I have to keep up with – and they seem to celebrate anything I throw at them.  Just gotta stay one step ahead! The grade 4/5’s have been … Continue reading

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Synthetic Cubism and Even More Guitars (and Violins!)

Grade 7/8 Drawn and Altered Collage Class 1. Moving on from their earlier lesson & project on Cubism, we spent some more time looking at images of the movement that evolved out of it: Synthetic Cubism.  We looked at the … Continue reading

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Three Guitars

Grade 5 & 6 Painting / Colours as Music Genre This project brought out some of the guitar heroes I didn’t even know about – it was very cool to hear from some of the kids who have been learning … Continue reading

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Exploring Cubism

Grade 7/8  Abstraction in Cubism Session 1: I gave the class a brief introduction to one of the most important movements in Art in the last century:  Cubism!  I talked about the idea of abstraction (isn’t all Art just that? … Continue reading

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More Op Art Cubes

Grade 7/8:  Op Art Cube Sculptures There was a distinct ‘Op Art Buzz’ going on, so I took the ideas and lesson I did for Op Art cubes with the grade 6’s at the other school, and added a pedestal … Continue reading

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Tooled Foil Reliefs

Grade 7/8:  A Musical Interpretation Set in Aluminum Foil Session 1: It began with brushes and pots of black washes of paint, LOTS of big sheets of paper, and music.  I should say I mentioned some things like Dadaism, automatic … Continue reading

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Torn Paper Portraits

Grade 7/8: Collage Portraits This project had the ability to go beyond the Art Room, and so it did.  After completion of the art project, the teacher assigned research and reporting on each personality.  The learning went on! To start: … Continue reading

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