8th Grade Expressive Self Portraits

Tyler Wolfersberger - Expressive Self Portrait (2020)

For this project students created a self portrait with an expressive background. Students learned to measure and draw their head and shoulder outlines. Students added eyes, nose, mouth, and ears learned from previous sketchbook assignments. Students also learned to outline and draw hair and additional details to make it look like themselves. Finally, students created and colored a personalized / expressive background. 

2nd Hour
3rd Hour
5th Hour

7th Grade Landscape Paintings

Adrionna Hall - Road to the Summit 2019

For this project students created a landscape painting using Bob Ross as inspiration. An emphasis on the element of art called "Space" was studied to learn the basic fundamentals of layering with a foreground, middleground, and background. Students used tempera paint as the chosen medium for this painting.

1st Hour
4th Hour

6th Grade Starry Night Landscapes

A Desert Night. - Aubrey Murphy

In this lesson students created a Starry Night landscape painting based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh. Students divided their landscape into three areas: foreground, middle ground, and background to create depth and space in their painting.  Finally, students used primary and secondary color pallets mixed with white and black to paint their landscapes.

4th Hour
5th Hour
7th Hour

7th Grade: Pop Art Food Collage

Avery Moran - "Starbucks Frappe"

For this project students created a collage using torn / cut paper and glue. Students choose a food item for their composition such as their favorite fruit, dessert or entree and used emphasis to create an exaggerated composition.

4th Hour
5th Hour
7th Hour

6th Grade: Scratch Art Engravings #Penntastic

The Scratchy Elk - Caden Reed 2018

For this project students created a scratch art etching using the element of art called texture. Students created a scratchboard by applying several colors of crayon to a heavy weight piece of drawing paper. When finished coloring students covered the surface with a black paint mixed with dish soap. To complete the project students created a drawing on the top of the surface that focuses on texture. The drawing was then etched away with a needle tool to review the color below the surface.

4th Hour
5th Hour
7th Hour

8th Grade Art: Pop Art Candy Paintings

My Favorite Candy's - Samantha Mowry

For this project students created a painting using the element of art called Emphasis and color. Students chose 3 to five varieties / colors of candy to use for their composition. They emphasized their candy choices by drawing them colossal or larger than life on their paper. Students then painted their composition using the primary and secondary colors.

1st Hour
2nd Hour
6th Hour

6th Grade Art: Scratch Art Engravings

Kayden Tanner - "Horse"

For this project students created a scratch art etching using the element of art called texture. Students created a scratchboard by applying several colors of crayon to a heavy weight piece of drawing paper. When finished coloring students covered the surface with a black paint mixed with dish soap. To complete the project students created a drawing on the top of the surface that focuses on texture. The drawing was then etched away with a needle tool to review the color below the surface.

4th Hour
5th Hour
7th Hour