Due to the snow and school cancellations, our Fall art club party will be Thursday, February 1st from 3:30-4:45. Bring some food and/or drink to share!
In art club, we have been working on Visual Journaling! Anyone can create a visual journal and it can hold whatever you like! It can be your planner/calendar/sketchbook/notebook/etc! It is a GREAT way to take some time away from our busy, stressful life and create art. We are taking inspiration and learning from the Journal Fodder Junkies, Eric m. Scott and David R. Modler. They have done many, many workshops, have published two books and have created video tutorials! Below are their books and some videos that might help you to start your journey on to the visual journal. Interested in joining Art Club??! If so, come to the interest meeting September 7th for more information! The meeting will run from 3:30- 4:00 and you MUST have a ride ready at 4 in order to attend! If you can't attend, in the side bar you can find the letter and application. Important dates: September 7th - Interest meeting 3:30-4 September 11th - Application and Artwork due for Fall semester Art Club **Note- only 7th and 8th graders may apply for Fall semester art club** (6th graders may apply Spring semester) February 8th - Spring Semester interest meeting 3:30-4 February 5th - Application and Artwork due for Spring Semester Art Club When we think of paintings, we usually think them to be painted on Canvas. Well, when you don't have canvas, you have to get creative! So, instead we used cardboard boxes, tape, and gesso to make the 'canvases' for our animal paintings! Anyone can make these! You just need these materials: Here is the construction process of the 'cardboard canvases' instruction: 1. wrap cardboard with masking tape 2. paint gesso (1 layer is usually fine) 3. let dry Finished 'cardboard canvas' all ready for a painting! While the canvas was drying we drew our sketches for our Animal paintings... Then we painted them in acrylic paint and let them dry! Here are some of the finished (plus some in progress) paintings!
This Wednesday we face painted at our Tailgate that we had before our "Black Out" Football game! The art club members did such an AMAZING job face painting- I am one proud art teacher!
Thanks to everyone who came out and participated! Our next meeting will be on October 20th and we will be working with FACE PAINT!! Mrs. Lewis' student teacher, Ms. Bingham will be teaching some tips, tricks, and techniques on working with face paint. We will be learning these techniques to face paint at the tailgating event on November 2nd for our WMS football game!
For our first 2 meetings, we did a drawing activity that required students to illustrate what they did over the summer. After we drew and colored them, we presented them! This allowed us to get to know each other a little better :) Tomorrow, Thursday September 22 is our first meeting!
See you members at 3:30! :) *** Make sure to have your ride ready here at school at 4:45 *** |