First shot at abstraction

Easy abstract design starts with a page filling design of a stusents name.

Clay whistles.

My students love clay whistles.

Zaner-Bloser cursive alphabet for ribbon lettering

It is hard to believe how many of our 7-8th grade students have forgotten cursive!  This worksheet should help.

New Syllabus

My new syllabus.   This is the PDF version.  I used Microsoft Publisher and Ms. Hanh noted that it would not show up. Thanks for the heads up! the actual publisher version is not so posterized.   Basically, I wanted a more vibrant version of my previous, boring syllabus.  I got the idea from my wife, who is doing a brochure as her syllabus, and also this Blog by Tona Hangen, associate professor of us history, Worcester State University.

Back to school!

Our first meeting of the year!  This is the fine arts vertical meeting in my room. Go tigers!  Students in 3 days!

For fun, I made the participants in our fine arts meeting (some whom are not art teachers) try the exquisite corpse game invented by the Surrealists!

Last day of school!

Rube Goldberg Machine 2013

This is the only class this year that successfully completed their Rube Goldberg Machine.  Forgot to add back in audio, but they rang the bell at the end.

Black light painting

Using fluorescent tempra, students paint in a radial design generated using French curves and a hand drawn circular grid. They love painting in the dark!

String art

Also called curve stitching, this art is usually done on boards with nails. At the jh, we figured how to do it with recycled cardboard and embroidery floss. White kite string was used as well, and dyed with markers and water on a brush. Most students followed patterns from Internet.

Ugly jugs

Edgefield, SC is the home of face jugs. My students explore this tradition by making their own. We start by viewing a video by PBS called "History Detectives: Face Jug" that explains its history. Then demo and hands on clay. We slab build a cylinder on day one, day 2,3 we add handle and face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArq__ZodFc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArq__ZodFc

Middle school meeting

Maea middle level educators!