Grade 7 Art

Grade 7 Art 

The students in the 7th grade are learning to switch gears this year in art.  They attend class every other day for half the year. Students are adapting to the work load and expectations.

Portraits with "Bad Hair" 

Our first project this year, we studied our own faces in the mirror and talked about proportion, symmetry and spacial relation.  After critical observation, we learned how to divide and measure out the correct proportions for the face. Students drew their faces and facial features in contour style outlines. Instead of our normal hair lines, we repeated our name in block letters and/or script letters to create some crazy, bad hair. We filled in the hair with pen textures and added some touches of silver and gold.  Check out our photo gallery.

Edible Colorwheel 
Who says art isn't edible.  We learned how to mix colors with white icing and food coloring.  Students were set into groups with icing cups of primary colors.  They were then instructed to make the secondary and tertiary colors.  Students then frosted cookies with the appropriate colors and created their own edible colorwheels.  Appetizing art!  Check out our photo gallery.

Robert Delaunay Color Disks 

Now that we have learned to mix colors to create delicious looking, and tasting art, lets apply our color mixing skills to paint and create a wonderful painting.  We looked at the work of Robert Delaunay, more specifically his color disk series for inspiration.  Students are learning about composition, movement and how to create a focal point in their work.  Students are planning their composition with ordinary household items.  Check out their progress and completed paintings.  

 Romero Britto 

Continuning on with our study of color, we are now looking at the work of a current and practicing artist, Romero Britto.  We can learn about color, line and contour studying Britto's work.  His whimsy adds a playfulness to his work which offers students the opportunity to compare and contrast our last artist, Robert Delaunay, with Romero Britto. We will be using Britto's work to as the pathway to using a ruler to measure and be introduced to the idea of scale and proportion.  This valuable skill can help students with math, estimation and percision.  As a carpenter knows the importance of "measure twice, cut once" these art students will learn to slow down and acurately observe, study and measure their work.  Check out the students progress here.

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