Aboriginal Prints

8th grade students created linoleum prints which were inspired by Aboriginal X-ray style art. This style of art which originated in Australia depicts the silhouette and the internal parts of an animal. Students created a double reduction print in a series of 10.

Expressive portraits

7th grade artists transformed shadows and highlights into bold and intense colors in these impressive self portraits. Notice how the color influences the mood of the art work. Can you guess who?

Body Bags in Art??

The 8th grade 3-D class has been having a lot of fun creating Screamers in class. Screamers are crazy creatures created with paper and cloth mache. We are in the process of creating our creatures and had to store the body parts in plastic bags which which like to refer to as "body bags." Below are some pics of the work in progress. Look back soon for the finished characters!

Durer Animals

In 8th grade art, we examined the work of Albrecht Durer. He is one of the most famous print makers of all time and is known for his meticulous drawing of animals. His "Rhinocerous" print inspired us to create our own animals

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Color wheels

Color is one of the most fundamental elements of art. In 7th grade we studied the color wheel and created radial patterns.

Still Life in Progress

Check out what's been going on in 8th grade art! We've been learning about the elements of design and the art of Still Life.

Visual Journals

Instead of the normal sketchbooks this year, we are creating visual journals in 8th grade art. In the journals, we incorporate writing, drawing, collage, paint and more. Students have the opportunity to experiment and express. The beginning results are quite amazing! Keep a look out for more photos of student work throughout the year.

Graffiti...Is it art or vandalism?

We have had an exciting start to the school year here at JFH. We began our discussions in art with the topic "What is art?" We focused on looking at graffiti that exists in our culture and had some great discussions about whether we believe that graffiti is art or not. In the end, we created our own graffiti on our portfolios which will store each person's art work for the year. At the end of the year, we will have an excellent collection of all the things we have learned and created this year

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Welcome Back!

Summer was way too short, I'm sure we'd all agree, but I am happy to back. The first few days of school have been great and I believe that this is going to be an awesome year. I am looking forward to working on our visual jounals this year in art 8. If you have the opportunity check out journalfodderjunkies.com. This site will show you some awesome examples of the things we will be attempting! I had the chance to speak to both the guys who produced this site and they are phenomenal.

Mosaics in progress

Students have been enjoying the process of creating mosaics. We receive most of our stained glass from scraps leftover from Broadway High School stained glass projects. Students are able to create works of art from leftovers! The best part for students is getting to cut the glass and wear the fashionable safety goggles.
Check out our progress.

Sixth Grade Art

Ms. Kline's sixth grade art class created symmetrical masks

 and had fun creating and eating their color wheels.

Celtic Carvings

Students in period 1 have been working on dry wall carvings inspired by ancient Celtic designs. We explored the ancient art of illumination as students were asked to create an original design utilizing one of the initials of their name. Dry wall pieces were saved from last years renovation of the school making this project a very budget friendly endeavor!

The most famous example of illumination comes from Ireland. Do you know what the book is called?

Ukrainian Eggs

Art 8 classes had the opportunity to practice the ancient art form of egg decorating from the Ukraine. Students used tools called kistkas to create elaborate designs with wax. They would then dip into colorful dies, add more wax and repeat the dying process. When totally finished with the design, we burned off the wax using a candle flame to reveal the multi-colored design beneath. The results were amazing! Check out the student examples.

Mosaics!

One of the most anticipated projects of the year has begun at Hillyard. We are making mosaics in 8th grade classes. Students will be using small fragments of glass known as tessarae to create an original design. This is a time intensive project and we hope to be completed with them in 2 weeks. Look for pictures soon!

Still LIfe

Students in 7th grade classes have been comparing and contrasting realistic and abstract art. We drew from observation a "never-ending still life" in both styles of art. For the abstract style of art, we looked at the cubist artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

Students study Lichtenstein!

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. After learning about this Pop artist, students utilized the gridded system of drawing to create 18" x 14" drawings of famous comic book heroes. The results were spectacular... Check out the slide show!