Students are creating implied three-dimensional form by modifying pattern as it passes over an object.
Category:Student Art
Ribbon Compostions
Students are working on compositions of ribbons to imply three-dimensional form and space. I recently updated this resource on TPT.
Aestheometry Gifts
My daughter is in my class this year. We took her aestheometry design and had it printed on some items for Christmas gifts.
National Custodians Day!
My students created a banner using the cooperative grid technique for National Custodians Day.
Tessellations 19-20
Scratch-Art Lettering
Pastel Stencil Designs 19-20
Students completed their Pastel Stencil Art recently.
Bird’s Eye View Perspective
Lava Lamp Designs
We are creating original Lava Lamp compositions to showcase our three dimensional form shading and layering techniques.
Aestheometry Demo
Metallic Emblem Shading Project
Student Emblem Designs on our Facebook Page.
Mr. Cummins’s Art Class on Facebook
After a few of setbacks, I’ve decided to reboot the Facebook page for my art class.
Pastel Paintings 2018
My students completed their Pastel Animal Portraits recently.
Hidden Lizard Designs
Watercolor Self Portraits
My eighth grade class is just completing their self portraits in monochromatic watercolor.
Metallic Scratch Art
Students recently completed a scratch-art project on silver or gold metallic scratch board. In this example, the student used a reference animal graphic and chose to fill in the sections on the design using intricate patterns and designs. The lesson emphasizes the use of texture shading and using value and contrast to make details easily …
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Crayon Blending
My 5th grade classes begin the year with shading and blending activities. This one makes use of crayons and intersecting lines.
Kaleidoscope Heart Display
Kaleidoscope Hearts
Eighth grade art students are working on their kaleidoscope mechanical drawing. I’ve done several varieties of these over the years. This year we are doing a heart shaped design on 18×18″ paper.
Comic Panel Paintings
8th grade art students are completing their comic panel painting projects. We use a grid to enlarge a comic panel illustration and then mix primary colors in tempera paint to finish them.
Colored Pencil Shading Exercises
Getting back into the swing of things over here. Still plenty of moving in left to do. I’m sure I will be organizing things into the “new” room for most of the year. Students have been practicing good shading techniques in pencil and colored pencil.
Cooperative Posters 2016
We completed our final project for this year. Three cooperative grid posters.
Animal Op-Art
I’ve recently created some animal face op-art style designs to be used for reference, coloring and shading.
Op-Art Eggs
Last month, my students completed their Op-Art egg designs.We used a combination of marker and colored-pencil to create interesting color schemes on these pre-printed graphics. The focus was on contrast and blending as well as good shading techniques.
Tiki Doodle Art
Scratch Art Tiki Face Designs
We recently completed a scratch-art project using Tiki inspired symmetrical faces as subject matter. For this project, I chose to use the largest student-grade scratch material I could find. I believe the sheets were 11×13″. We discussed and practiced symmetrical transfer to create our own Tiki faces. I also made available a set of pre-printed …
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Tessellating Kaleidoscopes
Earlier this year, my students created tessellating mosaic tiles with individual kaleidoscope designs. The designs stack together for display. We created a common motif in each design so that a black and white stripe element coils continuously through the display. I chose to affix the artworks to a strip of kraft paper and display it like …
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Student Art Display
Veterans Day
My wife’s fourth grade class completed the Veterans Day cooperative poster.
Spooooky Perspective
My classes are working this week on their Spooky/Autumn Perspective Drawings. I took the opportunity to prepare this lesson as a product for my TPT store. While my students work on theirs, it will remain at an introductory discount. I’ve enjoyed doing this project for years and I always do it a bit differently. This time, …
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Chrome FX in Colored Pencil
At the time of this post, my students are in the middle of working on their chrome emblem design. We apply blends in colored pencil to achieve the illusion of highly polished metal. For the next few days, my Metallic Shading Effect project on TPT will be on sale.
Completed Cooperative Posters
Each grade level had time to complete a coop design. (6,7,8) For the tiger and leopard, students could choose their colors and materials but they were instructed to color the appropriate portions dark or light according to the example on their tile worksheet. There are always a few who fail to follow through on this. …
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Cooperative Poster Projects
I sometimes end the year with a cooperative poster project. It is a flexible activity that fits well with the odd schedules, interruptions, and make-up work that are unavoidable at the end of the year. Students who are done with their primary work move on to the coop poster while the others catch up. Some …
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Doodle Techniques
My students are currently working on their Doodle Design drawings. We are working on glossy rainbow paper with Sharpie. When a paper is glossy and the back is white, any color printed on the paper is typically sitting on the surface of the sheet, rather than permeating into the paper fibers. This allows for a …
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Art Display
For the remainder of the school year, I will be rotating displays of the student artwork in my school’s cafeteria. I save their projects all year so there is quite a bit of it. We used to have a single art show event but that has been displaced due to renovations on my campus.
Doodle Designs
This week, students began working on their Doodle Designs. This is where they fill in the page with freehand doodles and patterns. They are provided numerous examples to help with ideas for a variety of hand-drawn patterns. I’ve done several varieties of this project over the years. This year, I provided each students with a …
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Spring Fever Collaborative Poster
Here is an example of a coloring grid completed by 4th grade students.
Op-Art Designs
My students began working on op-art designs this week. The designs are actually pre-printed copies. The activity is centered around applying color to the images. It’s a good opportunity to introduce a new technique or medium. This group is using watercolor pencils. As the designs are printed on regular copy paper, special considerations must be …
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Painted/Cut-Paper Color Wheel
This is one of the first projects I developed when I began teaching. Students create four recognizable shapes along a single theme to use for the three color groups and neutral gray. I provide the primary colors, students are to mix the rest. If pretty, bright violet is important to you, consider providing magenta paint. …
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Simple 3-D techniques
My sixth grade classes are completing a drawing to illustrate some very basic three dimensional techniques this week. We typically follow this with an introduction to linear perspective.
Read America Collaborative Poster
Students cooperate on a large grid poster. Just in time for Read Across America week!
Tessellations
Today, my students began preparing for their Tessellation Design art projects.
More Presidential Progress
Earlier this week, students began applying color to their Presidential Portraits. We used watercolor marker for our color medium. When I know this project is coming up, I order a supply of red, blue, and black markers. Those happen to be the colors that tend to be used up quickest anyway, so its good to …
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Presidential Progress
This is day four of the president drawings. Students are completing the grid drawing portion of the project. The first day, we created the grid. Those who completed it early were to create a second grid for a “back-up” or possibly extra credit. The next three days have been drawing the image square by square. …
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Foam Carving Tiles
I like to do a foam tile carving project with my Art 2 students each year. It’s an easy way to incorporate simple three-dimensional relief sculpture into a curriculum. The material carves easily with scratch art type tools and tongue depressors cut down to a flat edge.This year, we are doing contour names. It was …
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On the Board
My sixth grade classes are currently creating a drawing in one-point linear perspective. They then color the designs using a monochromatic color scheme.