Springman Visual Arts

The Genesis and Discovery teams have done an outstanding job on their Value/Pattern Portraits. The students created backgrounds using a monochromatic color scheme that was picked to enhance the feeling or emotion that they chose to work with in the self portrait. Enjoy the slide show of the student work below, or click here for a link to the gallery to find an individual!

The genesis and discovery teams have been working hard on their value portraits this past two weeks. Most classes have finished the drawings of the faces, and have started to look at the second half of our project, involving color values, the emotions

that color can effect, and the principle of art Pattern.  Click on the images here to go to a gallery of the work in progress on the value drawings as well as some examples of the finished black and white portraits. Check back to see examples of the finished works including the backgrounds!

Here’s the Site we looked at in class this week. The site was created by Graphic Designer Claudia Cortes for a Master of Fine Arts Thesis at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Kudos to her for an outstanding interactive color experience! You will need to have “Adobe Flash” on your computer for the site to work. There is a lot of good info about the moods that color can create in the videos and links at Ms. Cortes’ site that relate to the portrait project we are working on, so click on the image here to get to her site!

The Discovery and Genesis teams have been working hard looking at two new elements of art this past week, value and shape. We started by looking at the element value in a Power-point discussing how value can be used to create depth in a 2D drawing as you can see in the ball drawing here. We looked at how light values pop out from the paper, and how dark values recede. We also discussed how to create a value scale, a tool we will be using in our next project. To see the Power-point from class, check out the resources page above!

In art this week the Discovery students have been working hard on their contour drawings, and there are quite a few nicely done works of art! We concentrated on observational skills in the drawings, working on our ability to truly observe what we were drawing. Students finished their blind contour drawings, and we have started to work with full contour drawings, adding in critiquing and correcting to our observations and recording done in blind contour.  With full contour we are also starting to look at two important art concepts, overlapping and foreshortening to show space & depth in a drawing. To see a short video of what a blind contour drawing is, click the play button on the video here. Images and more videos from class of the work in progress can be found in the 6th grade gallery in the sidebar to the right.

Any student who had less then a “10″ on their online #1 work critiquing the element of art line has until Sunday to make corrections for full credit.

Both Ms. Newman and Mr. Kolber wish you all a great spring break!

The 6th grade classes have started a drawing project involving contour line. The main focus of contour drawing is working on observational skills. Students are asked to draw from direct observation, looking intently at the implied lines in an object. We start off with a hand for this drawing and will be continuing on with more complex objects and concepts as we work on observation. Click on the images here to go to a gallery of the work in progress. Students who need a copy of the notes/homework page should go to the “Resources Page”above to download one, or look at the PowerPoint from class again!

Hey Guys,

The browser that works best with my site is Firefox. The art website is optimized for Firefox because it can be used on either a Mac or a PC. With students using both platforms at home, it makes sense to use a browser that works equally well for both operating systems.  Firefox is a free program, you can click on the image here to download Firefox today.

Mr. K

Hey 6th graders, welcome to the Art room! Both the Discovery and Genesis teams start their visual arts rotation on Wednesday, March 7th. The first few days we will be looking at the visual arts website, www.mrkolber.org, the resources available on the art homepage, how students log into their individual “Art on Line” accounts, and taking a pre-test of art knowledge and skills. (Don’t worry it’s a base line and will not count for this trimester’s grade!) We will also begin our first online assignment looking at the element of art line in an image with a short written critique. I look forward to meeting the 6th graders beyond the art club members, and I encourage students and parents to take a few moments to look at the website to familiarize yourself with what’s going on with the art classes this year! For most of the red day students, please welcome Ms. Newman to the art room. She will be teaching students from both teams so give her a hello when you see her!

This week in class we have started to look at the graphic design project that we will be printing on the tie-dye shirts we made earlier in the week. The students were introduced to the concept of  graphic design by figuring out what a graphic designer might do. We looked at the relationship of client - designer - consumer, focusing on how a graphic designer interacts with clients to create artwork that will be used to communicate with a consumer. For our project, students will be choosing one of three possible graphic design projects. Students can choose…

• To communicate 3 facts about the student artist visually using imagery.
• Create a design that advertises a fictional band, brand, or item.
• Create a design that visually shows a phrase, quote, or saying.

We will be creating high contrast designs that work well for hand cut stencils and will continue with this project through next week.

The first load of Canopic jars are now out of the kiln and will be assessed over the next few days. The final load of ceramics will be fired next week. As the pots come out of the kiln, students will be glazing their projects during the time we are working on the graphic designs. Click on the image to the left to see a gallery of the work in progress!