Middle School Artwork

Selected Works, grades 6 - 8

     Grade 6     

Painting in Gouache 
a study in color and composition

Using overlap to create spatial depth




Relief Printing

black ink and water color
repetition used to show movement

Introduction to Charcoal Drawing

Cubist Portraits
ink and color pencil

Art of Early Civilizations
an investigation in discovering and creating materials and tools to produce a narrative  drawing.  Students burned wood for charcoal and found color pigments in nature

Paint brushes made from sticks



          Sumie Painting

Students ground their own inks and used traditional Japanese tools 

 Reach Out
a study in tonal value and human ingenuity

    Grade 8     

Self-portraits 
various media and artistic styles

Charcoal on half-toned newspaper
text selection adds to the personal narrative

Charcoal on half-toned newspaper

Expressionism
Oil pastel on black paper

Drawing from Observation

Study in tonal values and composition design - positive/negative space

Still life drawing - using overlap and shading to create spatial depth

Notan Design - cut paper

Modern Monas

Figure Sculpture
study in proportion 

      Grade 7       

Art Historical Extensions 
apply imagination and elements of art to extend a section of an historical landscape painting

 

Drawing from Observation

Color pencil drawing of living orchids

Cubist Style Painting & Mixed Media Sculpture

Picasso 3-D Faces

Illuminated Letters 

First initial of name and personal symbols

Integrated with Grade 7 Humanities studies

Photomontage Portraits - study in tonal hue and proportion relative to humor  

 Optical Illusions - pen and ink on paper

Optical illusion cubes - pen and ink

 Keith Harring style figure sculpture
with project extension using Photoshop 

Digital extension - figure placed in an environment with emphasis on scale and context to create meaning

Digital extension #2

Cutting the Harring figures from styrofoam