This Week in Art! March 23-27, 2015

6th Grade Art:


"This week in art, we finished our block letters. We used acrylic paints. We blended 2 colors together, and used a design on top. My work was based off of a small indie game known as "The Legend Of Zelda. The one in a million people who've played the games will see the true beauty of this masterpiece."

- Br3ndan T, Period 9

7th Grade Art:


"This week we worked on our monochromatic painting projects. I decided to do mine in blue because I thought it looked the coolest. Also this week we did the watercolor straw project. I did mine using dark colors like blues, greens, and black. It kinda looks like a dark forest."

- Quinn E, Period 5

8th Grade Art:


This was the first week of Quarter 4! It's hard to believe that we're in the last 9 weeks of school already. Students in 8th grade art have started the planning and brainstorming process for our clay choice unit. After spring break, we'll explore the properties of clay and learn HOW to build our projects before we get started. Be thinking about your designs so you're ready to make something awesome when we get back from break!

In other art news...


Our Youth Art Month coloring contest winners were announced on Spartan TV today! Iggy made an appearance to help announce the winners:

6th Grade Winner - Brigid O.
7th Grade Winner - Kali G.
8th Grade Winner - Hannah H.

Honorable mention winners were: Maddi J, Arianna K, and Olivia B.

Grade level winners were awarded a set of 36 colored pencils and a 12 pack of metallic colored pencils. Honorable mention winners received a set of watercolor paints.

Iggy wearing my pixel glasses when he visited the art room Friday morning.

Thanks for another great week! Have an awesome SPRING BREAK!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art! March 16-20, 2015

6th Grade Art:


This week, we applied and FINISHED our paper mache layer on our letter sculptures! Today we started thinking about how we will add decoration on our sculptures, so we started practicing painting with acrylics and blending two colors together. Our favorite blends will be used as a background layer on our letter sculptures, and we'll add a fun all-over pattern on top of that. Hopefully we'll be able to finish the sculptures (painting and all!) by the time we leave for spring break!

7th Grade Art:


Seventh grade students are super busy right now, painting their final monochromatic self-portraits. We'll continue the intense work through next week, and hopefully complete these paintings before we leave for spring break.

8th Grade Art:

Today was our last day of art for Quarter 3. Gracie summed it up this way:

"This past week has been so hectic around here. We are trying to finish our pixel portrait, any unfinished drawings, and lastly to upload our drawings to our website. All of our pixel portraits look AMAZING!!! They look exactly like ourselves. Everyone's clay project look great and creative! I'm going to miss art so so much! I love our movie Mondays and the inspiration Mrs. Leban gives us; "You have to hate your work to make it amazing..." I'm not too sure where we really came up with that but I know everyone will remember this class as their best U.A. in their 8th grade year! "

- Gracie W, Period 1

In other art news...

In the last two weeks, eighth grader Emma (from my first period class) has been having me record her while drawing to create a time-lapse video of the creation of her pixel portrait. We were able to do this for about five class periods of about 35-40 minutes each. I strung all of the time-lapse videos together today and posted the result on our YouTube channel. It's pretty amazing to watch!

ALSO ON YOUTUBE:
It's Youth Art Month 2015! We're having a coloring contest here at Sandburg to win awesome art supply packs! Iggy has returned again this year to help me hype the event. Our latest videos can be found on our YouTube channel: here's the intro video, and here's our first update video. There will be one more video next week before the coloring contest winners are chosen!

Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art: March 9-13

This week (and Monday of next week) is PARCC testing. In UA classes, this means that we lose two entire class periods for the week, but are also kicked out of our classrooms with no access to our equipment or supplies during that time. Challenging, to say the least.

Therefore, art classes and music classes combined forces in the auditorium and completed a mini-unit on musical theater (our concentration was "The Lion King"). We watched the movie and completed an analysis of musical and visual art elements and qualities and how choices that the musicians and artists make can help to tell the story.

In other art news...


I found two great articles this week that are pretty useful for the free time that happens when you finish the PARCC test early... you have a sheet of scratch paper, so why not doodle?

Why You Should Doodle More

7 Ways that Doodling Will Change Your Life

Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art: 3.2 - 3.6.15

6th Grade Art:

Diego's drawings!

"These are two of my drawings for art. This are the Rainbow D and A self Lego Portrait. I like both of these drawing for two reason. I like the Rainbow D because of the 3D part of it. I like the Lego Portrait because it shows my type of person."

- Diego N, Period 8

7th Grade Art:

Joel's project is almost ready to begin the final painting stage!

"What we did in art this week was mainly around the self portrait Monday we worked on pictures to make them black and white and to give it only 4 shades. Then we worked on painting colors in a scale by adding either white or black to make or lighter or darker. Now we are finishing up transferring the picture to a white piece of paper in an outline form then next we will paint. Bye."

- Joel C, 4th Period

8th Grade Art:


This week, 8th grade students continued to make progress on their pixel portrait project, while their ceramic pieces were fired in the kiln. Students photographed their finished ceramic pieces for Artsonia when they were finished - you can check out our ceramics gallery on Artsonia here.

On Friday, we had a mini end-of-ceramics-unit celebration before taking our projects home. The cafeteria let us borrow their hot water percolator and we had some hot chocolate in our handmade mugs! Fun fact: did you know that these ceramic creations are dishwasher safe? The kiln gets to almost 2000 degrees, so your piece will surely stand up to dishwasher heat!

In other art news...


Let's connect! Are you following the Sandburg Art Room on Instagram? I post fun facts and images from student work and the classroom several times per week. This week, we experimented with a time-lapse video of an 8th grade student working on her drawing.

Today is Take Your Action Figure to Work Day! Did you celebrate? I did:



Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.