6th Grade Art:
Our letter sculptures are really looking good! This week, we applied textural designs to the front of our letter sculptures using puffy paint! Then, we began the first layer of acrylic paint, which will serve as a base coat for our tempera paint "wash," which gives our final sculpture an aged/antique look that really brings out the textures we drew on the front.
Today, students worked on their Sketchbook #2 assignment - the interior room drawing - which will be due this Monday. If it didn't get finished in class, it's homework over the weekend!
7th Grade Art:
Seventh grade students finally began painting this week (it kinda feels like we've been waiting forever)! First, we practiced painting value scales in different colors. This gives us the opportunity to choose from several different color schemes by seeing a "preview" first. Then, we started painting our final portraits, which could be finished as early as next week!
We are also working on our second Sketchbook assignment (the Op-Art inspired black and white design), which is due this upcoming Monday - so again, if you did not finish it in class, it is HOMEWORK this weekend! If you do not have Sharpie markers at home, you may use any kind of black markers that you have available (like Crayola, etc).
8th Grade Art:
This was the very first week of quarter 2 8th grade art! We spent the first part of the week (after introductions and such) starting our first sketchbook assignment, which is a black and white zentangle profile drawing of our faces. Students are filling the space (inside and outside of our heads) with words, symbols, pictures, and patterns that all represent themselves. These drawings will be due next Friday, November 1st.
We also started planning for our first ceramics project this week! Students planned out and colored in a sketch of what they would like their glazed clay mug to look like. These students will also make "mini mugs" as a practice before beginning the larger final mug... but that's next week!
Artsonia permission slips are also due from 8th graders today - even if you turned one in last year - because I will update email/contact information each year.
I still have the un-glazed clay mugs from quarter one students, in case you've been wondering where yours was... the kiln ventilation has still not been fixed, so if I try to use the kiln, it lets hazardous fumes into the classroom (which gives the students and I headaches... not so good!). Therefore, for the safety of all, I will not glaze fire in the classroom until this matter has been resolved. Unfortunately, it means we're playing the waiting game until then, so quarter one students will just have to hang on a little bit longer until their projects are ready. I feel really bad about it, but the matter is now out of my hands - I've done all that I can at my level.
In other news...
Eighth grade Sandburg students from quarter one art classes will have artwork for sale at Elijah's Coffee in downtown Elmhurst! Our "mini mugs" will be available for $5 each, with all of the proceeds from this sale going to UCCA Elmhurst to support their food pantry.
The sale begins on November 1st, as part of the Elmhurst City Centre "Arte at Night" event, but we will be selling our mugs throughout the holiday season, too! You can see the full list of participating merchants and their hours on the UCCA site here.
Also this week, the multi-needs class stopped by to make some fun and festive Halloween glitter spiderwebs and spiders made from pipe cleaners and pom poms. A couple weeks back, we made skeletons out of air dry clay. I wonder what fun holiday projects we'll be dreaming up next?
Thanks for another great week!
-Mrs. L.
